Altered precipitation patterns resulting from climate change will have particularly significant
consequences in water‐limited ecosystems, such as arid to semi‐arid ecosystems, where …

Plants would be more vulnerable to water stress and thereafter rewatering or a cycled water
environmental change, which occur more frequently under climatic change conditions in …

Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2–7° C and precipitation to change
across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects on ecosystem …

The rewetting of dry soils and the thawing of frozen soils are short-term, transitional
phenomena in terms of hydrology and the thermodynamics of soil systems. The impact of …

Precipitation regimes are predicted to become more variable with more extreme rainfall
events punctuated by longer intervening dry periods. Water‐limited ecosystems are likely to …

Soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stoichiometry is a main driver of ecosystem functioning.
Global N enrichment has greatly changed soil C: N ratios, but how altered resource …

Intensification of the global hydrological cycle with atmospheric warming is expected to
increase interannual variation in precipitation amount and the frequency of extreme …

Atmospheric water demand is practically characterized as vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and
has been identified as a critical driver of ecosystem function, by affecting plant mortality …

Water is a crucial factor controlling the fate and processing of soil organics. Water commonly
flows through the vadose zone via preferential flow pathways, resulting in nonuniform and …

Given that plant growth is often water‐limited in grasslands, it has been proposed that
projected increases in precipitation could increase plant productivity and carbon …