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NATURE PLANTS
卷 4, 期 12, 页码 1026-1033出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-018-0304-9
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- NASA
- Ziff Environmental Fellowship from Harvard University's Center for the Environment
- NASA Terrestrial Ecology award through the New Investigator programme [80NSSC18K0715]
The degree to which individual pulses of available water drive plant activity across diverse biomes and climates is not well understood. It has previously only been investigated in a few dryland locations. Here, plant water uptake following pulses of surface soil moisture, an indicator for the pulse-reserve hypothesis, is investigated across South America, Africa and Australia with satellite-based estimates of surface soil and canopy water content. Our findings show that this behaviour is widespread: occurring over half of the vegetated landscapes. We estimate spatially varying soil moisture thresholds at which plant water uptake ceases, noting dependence on soil texture and proximity to the wilting point. The soil type and biome-dependent soil moisture threshold and the plant soil water uptake patterns at the scale of Earth system models allow a unique opportunity to test and improve model parameterization of vegetation function under water limitation.
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