Water use trade‐offs and optimal adaptations to pulse‐driven arid ecosystems

By S. Schwinning, J. Ehleringer. 2001

477 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. K. Grigulis
2. S. Lavorel
3. M. Navas
4. Eric Garnier
5. Yongfei Bai
6. Daniel Rodríguez
7. V. Sadras
8. Enli Wang

In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Lavorel
2. K. Grigulis
3. Eric Garnier
4. M. Navas
5. V. Sadras
6. Daniel Rodríguez
7. Yongfei Bai
8. Rafael L. Bras

In Plant Science

1. V. Sadras
2. Daniel Rodríguez
3. Eric Garnier
4. S. Lavorel
5. Rafael L. Bras
6. D. Collins
7. K. Grigulis
8. M. Navas

Citations in the corpus

• Functional correlations between specific leaf area and specific root length along a regional environmental gradient in Inner Mongolia grasslands (2016, background): “The species alpha values of SLA and SRLs were classified into deep- and shallow-rooted species because rooting depth is a key factor determining plant below-ground resource acquisition (Schwinning & Ehleringer 2001).”
• Plant community responses to nitrogen addition and increased precipitation: the importance of water availability and species traits (2011, background): “For example, shallow-rooted species have greater advantage than tap-rooted species in exploiting soil water from surface soil following a rainfall event, especially in the semiarid region (Schwinning & Ehleringer, 2001).”
• Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem (2020, background): “However, variation in plant functional traits can allow for the stable coexistence of species within a plant community by facilitating spatial and temporal niche partitioning (Reich, 2014; Reynolds et al., 2007; Schwinning & Ehleringer, 2001; Silvertown et al., 2015).”
• Interactions between water and nitrogen in Australian cropping systems: physiological, agronomic, economic, breeding and modelling perspectives (2016, background): “Rainfall events of different size and frequency drive different biological processes (Schwinning and Ehleringer 2001; Schwinning and Sala 2004).”
• How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale‐up to trade‐offs and synergies in ecosystem services (2012, background): “…between high total standing biomass in tall and dense communities (Falster et al. 2011), and short vegetation, associated with water conservation owing to low transpiration flows (Schwinning & Ehleringer 2001) and low fire ignition probability owing to fuel limitation (Lavorel & Garnier 2002).”
• A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “Recognising that whole-plant water uptake and transpiration are tightly coupled (cf. Schwinning and Ehleringer 2001; Larcher 2003), we also expect traits controlling water fluxes from leaves to have an impact on soil water content.”
• Hierarchy of responses to resource pulses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems (2004, background): “By analogy, desert plants can also be expected to maximize the effort (e.g. allocation to non-photosynthetic tissues) to reward (carbon assimilation rate) ratio of pulse use, with different species potentially specializing on different types of pulse events (Schwinning and Ehleringer 2001).”
• Plant rooting strategies in water‐limited ecosystems (2007, methodology): “van Wijk and Bouten [2001] used a genetic algorithm to identify the optimal root profiles at four sites in the Netherlands, and rooting depths were one of many parameters explored by the genetic algorithm employed by Schwinning and Ehleringer [2001] .”
• Beyond Gaia: Thermodynamics of Life and Earth System Functioning (2004, background): “Recent advances in modeling biotic diversity with individual-based models (e.g. Downing and Zvirinsky, 2000; Kleidon and Mooney, 2000; Schwinning and Ehleringer, 2001; Pachepsky et al., 2001) would allow us to explicitly include degrees of freedom into simulation models of the biosphere.”
• Relationships between plant traits and climate in the Mediterranean region: A pollen data analysis (2004, background): “Leaf size and phenology, as well as depth of the root system play a major role in water use tradeoffs for arid ecosystems (Schwinning & Ehleringer 2001).”