Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos (), M. Susan Moran (), Alfredo Huete, Yongguang Zhang, Cynthia Bresloff, Travis E. Huxman, Derek Eamus, David D. Bosch, Anthony R. Buda, Stacey A. Gunter, Tamara Heartsill Scalley, Stanley G. Kitchen, Mitchel P. McClaran, W. Henry McNab, Diane S. Montoya, Jack A. Morgan, Debra P. C. Peters, E. John Sadler, Mark S. Seyfried and Patrick J. Starks
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Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos: USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research
M. Susan Moran: USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research
Alfredo Huete: Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
Yongguang Zhang: USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research
Cynthia Bresloff: Soil, Water & Environmental Sciences, University of Arizona
Travis E. Huxman: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA and Center for Environmental Biology, University of California
Derek Eamus: Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, New South Wales 2007, Australia
David D. Bosch: USDA ARS Southeast Watershed Research Laboratory
Anthony R. Buda: USDA ARS Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research Unit, University Park
Stacey A. Gunter: USDA ARS Southern Plains Range Research Station
Tamara Heartsill Scalley: USDA FS International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras 00926, Puerto Rico
Stanley G. Kitchen: USDA FS Rocky Mountain Research Station Shrub Sciences Laboratory
Mitchel P. McClaran: School of Natural Resources & the Environment, University of Arizona
W. Henry McNab: USDA FS Southern Research Station
Diane S. Montoya: USDA FS Pacific Southwest Research Station
Jack A. Morgan: USDA ARS Rangeland Resources Research Unit
Debra P. C. Peters: USDA ARS Jornada Experimental Range & Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research Program, New Mexico State University
E. John Sadler: USDA ARS Cropping Systems & Water Quality Research Unit
Mark S. Seyfried: USDA ARS Northwest Watershed Research Center
Patrick J. Starks: USDA ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory

Nature, 2013, vol. 494, issue 7437, 349-352

Abstract: The resilience of a global sample of ecosystems to an increase in drought conditions is assessed, comparing data from the early twenty-first with the late twentieth century; results indicate a cross-ecosystem capacity for tolerating low precipitation and responding to high precipitation during recent warm drought and yet suggest a threshold to resilience with prolonged warm drought.

Date: 2013
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