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Tiffany A. Aldworth, Michele L. W. Toucher, Alistair D. Clulow and Anthony M. Swemmer
Over the past century, increases in indigenous woody plant species, also known as woody encroachment (WE), has occurred in grasslands and savannas across the globe. While the impact on grassland and savanna composition and productivity has been well stud...
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Carlos G. Ochoa and Mohamed A. B. Abdallah
There is scarce information regarding the interactions between young tree water uptake and the environment in water-limited ecosystems. This study was conducted in a semiarid rangeland ecosystem in central Oregon, Pacific Northwest Region, USA. We measur...
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Yanxia Jin, Xinping Wang, Yafeng Zhang, Yanxia Pan and Rui Hu
Quantifying the water balance within areas with sparse vegetation requires frequent measurement of transpiration in water-limited, arid, desert ecosystems. Field experiments were conducted in Shapotou, northwestern China, to examine the feasibility of up...
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Bharat Sharma Acharya, Gehendra Kharel, Chris B. Zou, Bradford P. Wilcox and Todd Halihan
Woody plant encroachment has profound impacts on the sustainable management of water resources in water-limited ecosystems. However, our understanding of the effects of this global phenomenon on groundwater recharge at local and regional scales is limite...
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Erik Lehnhoff, Zachariah Miller, Perry Miller, Stephen Johnson, Tessa Scott, Patrick Hatfield and Fabian D. Menalled
Organic agricultural production has become a major economic and cultural force. However, in water-limited environments the tools used for weed control and nutrient supply, namely tillage and cover crops, may not be environmentally or economically sustain...
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Zhiping Fan, Zhihua Tu, Fayun Li, Yanbin Qin, Dongzhou Deng, Dehui Zeng, Xuekai Sun, Qiong Zhao, Yalin Hu
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Expected changes in precipitation over large regions of the world under global climate change will have profound effects on terrestrial ecosystems in arid and semiarid regions. To explore how changes in the amount of precipitation in the growing season w...
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Salvatore Manfreda and Kelly K. Caylor
Society is facing growing environmental problems that require new research efforts to understand the way ecosystems operate and survive, and their mutual relationships with the hydrologic cycle. In this respect, ecohydrology suggests a renewed interdisci...
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