Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 601, Issue -, Pages 1097-1107Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.084
Keywords
Drought; Ecosystem water-use efficiency; Response; Hydro-climatic conditions
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41671083]
- National Key Scientific Research and Development Program of China [2015CB953600, 2016YFC0401307]
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Ecosystem water-use efficiency (WUE) plays an important role in carbon and water cycles. Currently, the response of WUE to drought disturbance remains controversial. Based on the global ecosystem gross primary productivity (GPP) product and the evapotranspiration product (ET), both of which were retrieved from the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), as well as the drought index, this study comprehensively examined the relationship between ecosystem WUE (WUE = GPP/ET) and drought at the global scale. The response of WUE to drought showed large differences in various regions and biomes. WUE for arid ecosystems typically showed a negative response to drought, whereasWUE for humid ecosystems showed both positive and negative response to drought. Legacy effects of drought on ecosystem WUE were observed. Furthermore, ecosystems showed a sensitive response to abrupt changes in hydrological climatic conditions. The transition from wet to dry years should increase ecosystem WUE, and the opposite change in WUE should occur when an ecosystem experiences a transition from dry to wet years. This indicates the resilience of ecosystems to drought disturbance. Knowledge from this study should provide an in-depth understanding of ecosystem strategies for coping with drought. (C) 2017 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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