Drought Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystem
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Ecohydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 525
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biogeochemical cycles; ecosystem ecology; sustainability; vegetation; remote sensing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: remote sensing; forest ecology; climate change
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: climate change; carbon cycle; ecosystem ecology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Quantifying terrestrial ecosystem responses to drought, whose intensity and frequency are expected to increase, is a pressing ecological question under rapid climate change. To further understand the drought impacts and its ecological processes, we are inviting contributions to provide new evidences or insights to develop this field. The special issue considers researches across different time scales (historical to future) and spatial scales (regional to global). We encourage researchers to choose different methods (e.g. laboratory incubation, garden experiments, field observations, flux-net, remote sensing, ecosystem models, and earth system models) and different perspectives (e.g. plant traits, phenology, photosynthesis, vegetation dynamics, soil microbe, plant and soil, and biogeochemical cycles) to figure out the science question. The special issue includes but is not limited to the following questions:
- Drought impacts on regional or global vegetation and soil health.
- Lag and legacy effects of the ecosystem in response to different drought types.
- Changes of ecosystem sensitivities to drought in the historical periods.
- Projected drought changes by CMIP5/6 ESMs and their impacts on the ecosystem.
- Ecosystem carbon balance in response to future extreme drought.
Dr. Donghai Wu
Dr. Peipei Xu
Dr. Wenfang Xu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- soil moisture
- vapor pressure deficit
- extreme drought
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem resilience
- plant hydraulics
- soil microbe
- carbon cycle
- ecosystem modeling
