Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

By T. Huxman, Melinda D. Smith, Philip A. Fay, A. Knapp, M. Shaw, M. Loik, Stanley D. Smith, D. Tissue, John C. Zak, Jake F. Weltzin and 8 more. Nature, 2004

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An underestimated role of precipitation frequency in regulating summer soil moisture (2012, background): “Overall, these differences between non-forest and forest ecosystems can be attributed to the relative importance between water and other factors in regulating SWC temporally and spatially (Huxman et al 2004, Köchy 2008, Zha et al 2010).”
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Precipitation and large herbivorous mammals I: estimates from present-day communities (2010, background): “In Figure 2 of Huxman et al. (2004), one can see that in regions with precipitation of over 2000 mm per year, production increases very little when precipitation increases.”
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Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semiarid and arid ecosystems (2004, background): “Furthermore, the generally linear relationship between seasonal rainfall input and primary production at the ecosystem scale (e.g., Huxman et al. 2004a, b) is consistent with a first pass linear relationship between single event precipitation inputs and the production attributed to them.”
Trait selection and community weighting are key to understanding ecosystem responses to changing precipitation regimes (2018, background): “…Ellsworth, 1997; van der Sande et al., 2017) and the strong relationship between precipitation and NPP, which is widely considered a key metric of ecosystem function (Fahey & Knapp, 2007; Huxman et al., 2004; Knapp, Ciais, & Smith, 2017; Knapp & Smith, 2001; Sala, Parton, Joyce, & Lauenroth, 1988).”
Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes (2012, background): “Nevertheless, although vegetation activity in humid areas is less determined by drought than in arid ones, drought events also cause a marked reduction of vegetation activity and ANPP (16), as has been observed in the Amazon basin, particularly during the droughts of 2005 (20) and 2010 (21).”