Fast-growing crops have been evolved in North China, accompanied by intense paddy expansion, leading to dramatic impacts on the agricultural environment. Among these environmental issues, the impact of paddy expansion on land surface temperature is still unclear. In the present study, based on Landsat images and MODIS land surface temperature (LST)...
Drip irrigation under plastic mulch is a common agricultural practice for oasis agroecosystems in the extensive arid regions of northwest China, and it is widely used to improve agricultural production by suppressing soil evaporation. The widespread application of plastic mulch has also obviously altered land characteristics and the partitioning of...
Notre objectif est d'évaluer la contribution des arbustes de Guiera senegalensis aux flux d'eau et de carbone dans un parc agroforestier à petit mil (Pennisetum glaucum L.R. Br.) et dans une jachère. Le site expérimental est situé au sud-ouest du Niger, sur un bassin-versant sahélien de 2 km2. À l'échelle de l'arbuste de Guiera senegalensis, le tau...
In California, water is a perennial concern. As competition for water resources increases due to growth in population, California’s tree nut farmers are committed to improving the efficiency of water used for food production. There is an imminent need to have reliable methods that provide information about the temporal and spatial variability of cr...
Published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Climate cycles cast a far-reaching shadow across evaporation from global land surfaces, but their influence varies across space and time. A team led by Brecht Martens from Ghent University tested the statistical relationship between sixteen climate cycles and land evaporation. They revealed that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has the stron...
The evaporation of water from land into the atmosphere is a key component of the hydrological cycle. Accurate estimates of this flux are essential for proper water management and irrigation scheduling. However, continuous and qualitative information on land evaporation is currently not available at the required spatio-temporal scales for agricultur...
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Understanding the temporal and spatial variability of soil moisture is fundamental for improving the management of water and soil resources on rainfed agrosystems. The present study focused on the soil moisture (SM) patterns observed in a hilly rainfed agrosystem. We analyzed five datasets from measurement at 15 sites during various crop growth cyc...
Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
Field, remote sensing and ecohydrological modelling estimates provide a framework to determine ecosystem sensitivity to climatic shifts, as well as expected patterns in the amount of precipitation that ecosystems can effectively use.
Published in Nature Communications
The response of the coupled carbon and water cycles to anthropogenic climate change is unclear. Here, the authors show that terrestrial carbon uptake increased significantly from 1982 to 2011 and that this increase is largely driven by increased water-use efficiency, rather than an increase in water use.
