Rainfall drives variation in rates of change in intrinsic water use efficiency of tropical forests

Mark A. Adams; Thomas N. Buckley; Tarryn L. Turnbull

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11679-8

Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Rainfall drives variation in rates of change in intrinsic water use efficiency of tropical forests

Mark A. Adams,
Thomas N. Buckley,
Tarryn L. Turnbull

Affiliations

Mark A. Adams: Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology
Thomas N. Buckley: Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of California
Tarryn L. Turnbull: Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11679-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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How the water use efficiency of trees changes with atmospheric CO2 variations has mostly been studied on short time scales. Here, a newly compiled data set covering 1915 to 1995 shows how rates of change in water use efficiency vary with location and rainfall over the global tropics on a decadal scale.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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