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Balasubramaniam T, Mathangadeera R, Sugumar T, Wijewardene I, Sun L, Smith J, Shen G, Zhang H. Co-overexpression of OsSIZ1 and LtRCA in Arabidopsis thaliana improves heat, drought, and salt tolerance. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2025; 357:112536. [PMID: 40339707 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2025.112536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2025] [Revised: 04/27/2025] [Accepted: 04/29/2025] [Indexed: 05/10/2025]
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Abiotic stresses such as heat and drought are major constraints to plant growth and development, which result in tremendous decline in agricultural productivity. The concomitant occurrence of these stresses is common in nature and can lead to bigger losses in crop yield. Hence, implementing a rigorous approach to enhance abiotic stress tolerance is urgently needed. Multi-gene stacking through genetic engineering is considered to be an effective method that could increase abiotic stress tolerance. Previously, it was shown that overexpression of OsSIZ1 increased heat, drought, and salt tolerance in transgenic plants. It was recently shown that overexpression of LtRCA, a Rubisco activase gene from Larrea tridentata, could increase heat tolerance in Arabidopsis. In this study, we demonstrated that co-overexpression of OsSIZ1 and LtRCA significantly enhances abiotic stress tolerance, particularly under combined drought and heat stress conditions. Notably, OsSIZ1/LtRCA co-overexpressing plants produced at least eight times more seeds and significantly greater biomass compared to wild-type plants, outperforming other transgenic plants. Under individual stress conditions, they yielded six times more seeds under drought stress and three times more under heat stress conditions than wild-type plants. These findings highlight the effectiveness of pyramiding beneficial genes as a powerful strategy to confer broad-spectrum stress resilience in plants.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA.
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Sinha R, Peláez-Vico MÁ, Fritschi FB, Mittler R. Differential transpiration occurs in soybean under a wide range of water deficit and heat stress combination conditions. PHYSIOLOGIA PLANTARUM 2025; 177:e70251. [PMID: 40309915 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.70251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2025] [Revised: 03/31/2025] [Accepted: 04/15/2025] [Indexed: 05/02/2025]
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Differential transpiration is a newly discovered acclimation strategy of annual plants that mitigates the negative impacts of combined water deficit (WD) and heat stress (HS) on plant reproduction. Under conditions of WD + HS, transpiration of vegetative tissues is suppressed in plants such as soybean and tomato, while transpiration of reproductive tissues is not (termed 'Differential Transpiration'; DT). This newly identified acclimation process enables the cooling of reproductive organs under conditions of WD + HS, limiting HS-induced damage to plant reproduction. However, the thresholds at which DT remains active and effectively cools reproductive tissues, as well as the developmental stages at which it is activated in soybean, remain unknown. Here, we report that DT occurs at most nodes (leaf developmental stages) of soybean plants subjected to WD + HS, and that it can function under extreme conditions of WD + HS (i.e., 18% of field water capacity and 42°C combined). Our findings reveal that DT is an effective acclimation strategy that protects reproductive processes from extreme conditions of WD + HS at almost all developmental stages. In addition, our findings suggest that, under field conditions, DT could also be active in plants subjected to low or mild levels of WD during a heat wave.
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- Ranjita Sinha
- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, Columbia, MO, USA
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Liu J, Xia J, Wang M. Comparative study on bivariate statistical characteristics of drought in Shandong using SPI and SPEI. Sci Rep 2025; 15:11268. [PMID: 40175381 PMCID: PMC11965468 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-83522-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2024] [Accepted: 12/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2025] Open
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With global environmental change, an in-depth understanding of the changing patterns in the frequency, duration and severity of drought events is of great significance to regional water resources management and agricultural production. The standardized precipitation index (SPI) and the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) are two frequently used meteorological drought indices in characterizing the drought characteristics. The elucidation of the differences between the two indices is an important work to reduce the uncertainty in drought hazard analysis and give suggestions of the appropriate index for the regional drought detection. Shandong Province is considered to be one of the major agricultural production bases in northern China. However, the comparative analysis of the suitability of SPI and SPEI for this area and the spatial variability of drought hazard have not been systematically studied, which forms the basis for this research. In this study, we identified drought events according to run theory with consideration of merging neighboring medium-term drought events. The results showed that both SPI and SPEI can efficiently describe drought in the study area and drought events identified by these two indices were quite similar. The drought duration and severity of the most severe drought event identified by SPI were 11 months and 12.8, respectively, with a joint return period of 90 years, and the drought duration and severity of the most severe drought event identified by SPEI were 12 months and 12.98, with a joint return period of 65 years. The duration and severity of drought given by SPEI, however, were generally longer and larger than those given by SPI at the same meteorological station. A comparison of the return period using the bivariate copula function indicated that minor differences existed for the same drought event in the same meteorological station of SPI and SPEI. The spatial distributions of mean drought duration and severity as well as the return periods suggested that the northwest part of the study area and Weifang city were more likely to experience longer and more severe drought events, which also indicated a relatively higher potential for drought hazard in these areas.
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- Jian Liu
- Post-Doctoral Research Center, Water Research Institute of Shandong Province, Shandong Provincial Academician Workstation, Jinan, 250014, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources Engineering and Management, School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China.
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- Post-Doctoral Research Center, Water Research Institute of Shandong Province, Shandong Provincial Academician Workstation, Jinan, 250014, China
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Ren C, He L, Rosa L. Integrated irrigation and nitrogen optimization is a resource-efficient adaptation strategy for US maize and soybean production. NATURE FOOD 2025; 6:389-400. [PMID: 39779921 DOI: 10.1038/s43016-024-01107-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2024] [Accepted: 12/02/2024] [Indexed: 01/11/2025]
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Climate change poses substantial challenges to agriculture and crop production, but the combined role of nitrogen and water inputs in adaptation has been largely overlooked. Here, by developing regression models using US county-level data (2008-2020), we demonstrate that integrated optimization of irrigation and nitrogen inputs represents the most resource-efficient strategy to offset the climate-related yield losses. Under the 1.5 °C (3 °C) warming scenario, this approach involves increasing irrigation water withdrawals for maize by 62% (67%) and reducing it for soybean by 65% (58%), while increasing nitrogen inputs for maize by 4% (13%) and for soybean by 10% (130%) annually. This strategy reduces unsustainable irrigation water withdrawals by 73% (56%) for maize and 26% (28%) for soybean, enhancing water sustainability. Cost-benefit analysis indicates this optimization is cost-effective for over 80% of US maize and soybean productions, underscoring its critical role for climate change adaptation.
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- Chenchen Ren
- Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Biosphere Sciences and Engineering, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Yin C, Ting M, Kornhuber K, Horton RM, Yang Y, Jiang Y. CETD, a global compound events detection and visualisation toolbox and dataset. Sci Data 2025; 12:356. [PMID: 40021700 PMCID: PMC11871071 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-04530-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2025] [Indexed: 03/03/2025] Open
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Compound events (CEs) are attracting increased attention due to their significant societal and ecological impacts. However, their inherent complexity can pose challenges for climate scientists and practitioners, highlighting the need for a more approachable and intuitive framework for detecting and visualising CEs. Here, we introduce the Compound Events Toolbox and Dataset (CETD), which provides the first integrated, interactive, and extensible platform for CE detection and visualisation. Employing observations, reanalysis, and model simulations, CETD can quantify the frequency, duration, and severity of multiple CE types: multivariate, sequential, and concurrent events. It can analyse CEs often linked to severe impacts on human health, wildfires, and air pollution, such as hot-dry, wet-windy, and hot-dry-stagnation events. To validate the performance of CETD, we conduct statistical analyses for several high-impact events, such as the 2019 Australian wildfires and the 2022 European heatwaves. The accessibility and extensibility of CETD will benefit the broader community by enabling them to better understand and prepare for the risks and challenges posed by CEs in a warming world.
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- Cong Yin
- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA.
- Sierra Nevada Research Institute, University of California, Merced, CA, USA.
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
- Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
- Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
- Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, China.
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- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA
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Li J, Zhang Y, Bevacqua E, Zscheischler J, Keenan TF, Lian X, Zhou S, Zhang H, He M, Piao S. Future increase in compound soil drought-heat extremes exacerbated by vegetation greening. Nat Commun 2024; 15:10875. [PMID: 39738082 PMCID: PMC11686399 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55175-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2024] [Accepted: 12/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/01/2025] Open
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Compound soil drought and heat extremes are expected to occur more frequently with global warming, causing wide-ranging socio-ecological repercussions. Vegetation modulates air temperature and soil moisture through biophysical processes, thereby influencing the occurrence of such extremes. Global vegetation cover is broadly expected to increase under climate change, but it remains unclear whether vegetation greening will alleviate or aggravate future increases in compound soil drought-heat events. Here, using a suite of state-of-the-art model simulations, we show that the projected vegetation greening will increase the frequency of global compound soil drought-heat events, equivalent to 12-21% of the total increment at the end of 21st century. This increase is predominantly driven by reduced albedo and enhanced transpiration associated with increased leaf area. Although greening-induced transpiration enhancement has counteracting cooling and drying effects, the excessive water loss in the early growing season can lead to later soil moisture deficits, amplifying compound soil drought-heat extremes during the subsequent warm season. These changes are most pronounced in northern high latitudes and are dominated by the warming effect of CO2. Our study highlights the necessity of integrating vegetation biophysical effects into mitigation and adaptation strategies for addressing compound climate risks.
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- Jun Li
- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
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- Department of Compound Environmental Risks, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Compound Environmental Risks, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resources Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- School of National Safety and Emergency Management, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Xue C, Zhang Q, Jia Y, Tang H, Zhang H. Attribution of hydrological droughts in large river-connected lakes: Insights from an explainable machine learning model. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 952:175999. [PMID: 39233078 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2024] [Revised: 08/19/2024] [Accepted: 09/01/2024] [Indexed: 09/06/2024]
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Large lakes play an important role in water resource supply, regional climate regulation, and ecosystem support, but they face threats from frequent extreme drought events, necessitating an understanding of the mechanisms behind these events. In this study, we developed an explainable machine learning (ML) model that combines the Bayesian optimized (BO) long short-term memory (LSTM) model and the integrated gradients (IG) interpretation method to simulate and explain lake water level variations. In addition, the hydrological drought trends and extreme drought events in Poyang Lake from 1960 to 2022 were identified using the standardized water level index (SWI) and run theory. The analysis revealed that the frequency of hydrological droughts in Poyang Lake increased from 1960 to 2022, especially in the autumn after 2003. By selecting the flows of the catchment and the Yangtze River as the input features, the BO-LSTM model accurately predicted the water level of Poyang Lake. The IG method was then used to interpret the prediction results from three aspects: the importance ranking of the input features, their roles in the seasonal drought trends, and their roles in extreme drought events. The results indicate that (1) the most influential factor affecting the water level of Poyang Lake was the inflow of the Ganjiang River in the catchment. (2) The increase in the lake outflow caused by the Yangtze River's draining effect was the reason for the intensification of the autumn drought in Poyang Lake. (3) The extreme hydrological drought events were primarily caused by low catchment inflows. Overall, this research provides a new approach that balances prediction accuracy with interpretability for predicting and understanding the hydrological processes in large river-connected lakes. Moreover, this method was also applied to the attribution analysis of hydrological drought in Poyang Lake, providing theoretical support for regional water resource management.
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- Chenyang Xue
- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China; Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China.
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- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China; Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
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- College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210024, China
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Song Y, Sapes G, Chang S, Chowdhry R, Mejia T, Hampton A, Kucharski S, Sazzad TMS, Zhang Y, Tillman BL, Resende MFR, Koppal S, Wilson C, Gerber S, Zare A, Hammond WM. Hyperspectral signals in the soil: Plant-soil hydraulic connection and disequilibrium as mechanisms of drought tolerance and rapid recovery. PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT 2024; 47:4171-4187. [PMID: 38924477 DOI: 10.1111/pce.15011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Revised: 04/12/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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Predicting soil water status remotely is appealing due to its low cost and large-scale application. During drought, plants can disconnect from the soil, causing disequilibrium between soil and plant water potentials at pre-dawn. The impact of this disequilibrium on plant drought response and recovery is not well understood, potentially complicating soil water status predictions from plant spectral reflectance. This study aimed to quantify drought-induced disequilibrium, evaluate plant responses and recovery, and determine the potential for predicting soil water status from plant spectral reflectance. Two species were tested: sweet corn (Zea mays), which disconnected from the soil during intense drought, and peanut (Arachis hypogaea), which did not. Sweet corn's hydraulic disconnection led to an extended 'hydrated' phase, but its recovery was slower than peanut's, which remained connected to the soil even at lower water potentials (-5 MPa). Leaf hyperspectral reflectance successfully predicted the soil water status of peanut consistently, but only until disequilibrium occurred in sweet corn. Our results reveal different hydraulic strategies for plants coping with extreme drought and provide the first example of using spectral reflectance to quantify rhizosphere water status, emphasizing the need for species-specific considerations in soil water status predictions from canopy reflectance.
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- Yangyang Song
- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- North Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Marianna, Florida, USA
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- Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Soil, Water and Ecosystem Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Zhou S, Wu S, Gao J, Liu L, Li D, Yan R, Wang J. Increased stress from compound drought and heat events on vegetation. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 949:175113. [PMID: 39084366 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/27/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024]
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Compound drought and heat events (CDHEs), which are frequently occurring compound extreme climate events, have garnered considerable attention because of their detrimental effects on ecosystems. However, the intricacies of the spatial and temporal distributions of different durations of compound events, along with the variability in vegetation responses remain unclear. Here, we delineated the CDHEs based on meteorological observation data and investigated the spatial and temporal characteristics of CDHEs from 1993 to 2020 using the Theil-Sen trend test and Mann-Kendall nonparametric test. Furthermore, we utilized sliding correlation analysis to evaluate the impacts of CDHEs on vegetation among different climatic regions and ecosystems. Our findings indicate significant increasing trends in both the frequency and persistence of CDHEs from 1993 to 2020. The average trend of CDHEs frequency across different duration periods amounted to 13.80 %/decade. The fractional contribution of CDHEs lasting more than three days exhibited a significant increase, with an average trend of 2.00 %/decade. We also observed that vegetation is most significantly affected by compound events lasting 5-9 days. During the study period, the geographical extent of vegetation significantly impacted by CDHEs expanded by 0.89 %, correlation strength increased by 0.02, and lag time decreased by 0.25 months. These insights highlight the growing impact of CDHEs on vegetation under climate change, improving our understanding of vegetation responses to these compound events.
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- Shuang Zhou
- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Yu L, Dittrich ACN, Zhang X, Brock JR, Thirumalaikumar VP, Melandri G, Skirycz A, Edger PP, Thorp KR, Hinze L, Pauli D, Nelson AD. Regulation of a single inositol 1-phosphate synthase homeologue by HSFA6B contributes to fibre yield maintenance under drought conditions in upland cotton. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL 2024; 22:2756-2772. [PMID: 39031479 PMCID: PMC11536448 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.14402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2024] [Revised: 05/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 07/22/2024]
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Drought stress substantially impacts crop physiology resulting in alteration of growth and productivity. Understanding the genetic and molecular crosstalk between stress responses and agronomically important traits such as fibre yield is particularly complicated in the allopolyploid species, upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), due to reduced sequence variability between A and D subgenomes. To better understand how drought stress impacts yield, the transcriptomes of 22 genetically and phenotypically diverse upland cotton accessions grown under well-watered and water-limited conditions in the Arizona low desert were sequenced. Gene co-expression analyses were performed, uncovering a group of stress response genes, in particular transcription factors GhDREB2A-A and GhHSFA6B-D, associated with improved yield under water-limited conditions in an ABA-independent manner. DNA affinity purification sequencing (DAP-seq), as well as public cistrome data from Arabidopsis, were used to identify targets of these two TFs. Among these targets were two lint yield-associated genes previously identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS)-based approaches, GhABP-D and GhIPS1-A. Biochemical and phylogenetic approaches were used to determine that GhIPS1-A is positively regulated by GhHSFA6B-D, and that this regulatory mechanism is specific to Gossypium spp. containing the A (old world) genome. Finally, an SNP was identified within the GhHSFA6B-D binding site in GhIPS1-A that is positively associated with yield under water-limiting conditions. These data lay out a regulatory connection between abiotic stress and fibre yield in cotton that appears conserved in other systems such as Arabidopsis.
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- Li'ang Yu
- Boyce Thompson InstituteCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Boyce Thompson InstituteCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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- Department of HorticultureMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Boyce Thompson InstituteCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
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Purdue Proteomics FacilityBindley biosciences, Purdue UniversityWest LafayetteINUSA
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- Boyce Thompson InstituteCornell UniversityIthacaNYUSA
- Present address:
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- Department of HorticultureMichigan State UniversityEast LansingMIUSA
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- United States Department of Agriculture‐Agricultural Research Service, Arid Land Agricultural Research CenterMaricopaAZUSA
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- United States Department of Agriculture‐Agricultural Research Service, Southern Plains Agricultural Research CenterCollege StationTXUSA
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- School of Plant SciencesUniversity of ArizonaTucsonAZUSA
- Agroecosystem Research in the Desert (ARID)University of ArizonaTucsonAZUSA
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Yao Y, Fu B, Liu Y, Zhang Y, Ding J, Li Y, Zhou S, Song J, Wang S, Li C, Zhao W. Compound hot-dry events greatly prolong the recovery time of dryland ecosystems. Natl Sci Rev 2024; 11:nwae274. [PMID: 39301074 PMCID: PMC11409867 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwae274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 09/22/2024] Open
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Compound hot-dry events cause more severe impacts on terrestrial ecosystems than dry events, while the differences in recovery time (ΔRT) between hot-dry and dry events and their contributing factors remain unclear. Both remote sensing observations and eddy covariance measurements reveal that hot-dry events prolong the recovery time compared with dry events, with greater prolongation of recovery time in drylands than in humid regions. Random forest regression modeling demonstrates that the difference in vapor pressure deficit between hot-dry and dry events, with an importance score of 35%, is the major factor contributing to ΔRT. The severity of stomatal restriction exceeds that of non-stomatal limitation, which restricts the vegetation productivity that is necessary for the recovery process. These results emphasize the negative effect of vapor pressure deficit on vegetation recovery during hot-dry events and project an extension of drought recovery time considering elevated vapor pressure deficit in a warming world.
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- Ying Yao
- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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He G, Lin Y, Hu J, Chen Y, Guo Y, Yu M, Zeng F, Duan H, Meng R, Zhou C, Xiao Y, Huang B, Gong W, Liu J, Liu T, Zhou M, Ma W. The trends of non-accidental mortality burden attributed to compound hot-dry events in China and its provinces in a global warming world. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2024; 191:108977. [PMID: 39216332 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2024] [Revised: 07/22/2024] [Accepted: 08/21/2024] [Indexed: 09/04/2024]
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BACKGROUND Global warming has provoked more co-occurrence of hot extreme and dry extreme, namely compound hot-dry events (CHDEs). However, their health impacts have seldom been investigated. This study aimed to characterize CHDEs and assess its mortality burden in China from 1990 to 2100. METHODS CHDEs were defined as a day when daily maximum temperature > its 90th percentile and Standardized Precipitation Index < its 50th percentile. A two-stage approach, including a distributed lag nonlinear model (DLNM) and a multivariate meta-analysis, was used to estimate exposure-response associations of CHDEs with mortality in 358 counties/districts during 2006-2017 in China, which was then applied to assess the national mortality burden attributable to CHDEs from 1990 to 2100. FINDINGS We observed a significant increasing trend of CHDEs in China until mid-21st century, and then flatted, while the duration and intensity of CHDEs continuously increased across the 21st century. CHDEs were much riskier (ER=17.82 %, 95 %CI: 14.17 %-21.60 %) than independent hot events (ER=5.86 %,95 %CI: -0.04 %,12.45 %) or dry events (ER=0.07 %,95 %CI: -1.22 %, 1.38 %), and there was significantly additive interaction between hot events and dry events (AP=0.10,95 %CI: 0.04, 0.16). Females (ER=24.28 %, 95 %CI: 19.21 %-29.56 %), the elderly (ER=23.28 %, 95 %CI: 18.23 %-28.55 %), and people living in humid area (ER=18.98 %, 95 %CI: 15.08 %-23.02 %) had higher mortality risks than their counterparts. Mortality burden attributed to CHDEs significantly increased during historical observation and became stable since mid-21st century in China. INTERPRETATION CHDEs would significantly increase mortality with higher risk for females, the elderly and people living in humid areas. Mortality burden has significantly increased during historical observation and will keep relatively steady since mid-21st century.
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- Guanhao He
- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- Bao'an Chronic Diseases Prevent and Cure Hospital, Shenzhen 518100, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310009, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Climate Center of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510640, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 511430, China
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- Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha 410005, China
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- Yunnan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming 650034, China
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- Jilin Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changchun 130062, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310009, China
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- The National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- The National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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Zhao Y, Xiao L, Tang Y, Yao X, Cheng T, Zhu Y, Cao W, Tian Y. Spatio-temporal change of winter wheat yield and its quantitative responses to compound frost-dry events - An example of the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China from 2001 to 2020. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 940:173531. [PMID: 38821277 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2024] [Accepted: 05/24/2024] [Indexed: 06/02/2024]
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Extreme climate events such as frost and drought have great influence on wheat growth and yield. Understanding the effects of frost, drought and compound frost-dry events on wheat growth and yield is of great significance for ensuring national food security. In this study, wheat yield prediction model (SCYMvp) was developed by combining crop growth model (CGM), satellite images and meteorological variables. Wheat yield maps in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain (HHHP) during 2001-2020 were generated using SCYMvp model. Meanwhile, accumulative frost days (AFD), accumulative dry days (ADD) and accumulative frost-dry days (AFDD) in different growth periods of wheat were calculated, and the effects of frost and drought on wheat yield were quantified by the first difference method and linear mixed model. The results showed that wheat yield increased significantly, while the rising trend was obvious at more than half of the regions. Extreme climate events (ECEs) showed a relatively stable change trend, although the change trend was significant only in a few areas. Compared with frost and drought in the early growth period, ECEs in the middle growth period (spring ECEs) had more negative effects on wheat growth and yield. Wheat yield was negatively correlated with spring ECEs, and yield loss was between 4.6 and 49.8 kg/ha for each 1 d increase of spring ECEs. The effects of spring ECEs on wheat yield were ranked as AFDD > AFD > ADD. The negative effect of ADD on wheat yield in the late growth period was higher than that in the other periods. The negative effects of spring ECEs on yield in southern regions were higher than those in northern regions. Overall, due to the adverse effects of frost and drought on wheat yield in the middle and late growth periods, the mean annual yield loss was 6.4 %, among which spring AFD caused the greatest loss to wheat yield (3.1 %). The results have important guiding significance for formulating climate adaptation management strategies.
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- Yanxi Zhao
- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
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- National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China.
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Shi P, Li Y, Biswas A, Wei K, Hou M. Spatial-temporal evolution and intrinsic drivers of compound drought and heatwave events in Mainland China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 948:174834. [PMID: 39025155 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Revised: 07/03/2024] [Accepted: 07/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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Given the devastating effects and potential rising trends of compound drought and heatwave (CDH) events under the specter of global warming, this study embarks on a comprehensive examination of their spatial and temporal evolution, as well as the intrinsic drivers. This study identified CDH events based on the non-stationary standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (NSPEI) and the relative threshold method. The study also quantified the spatial and temporal patterns of frequency, intensity, and duration of CDH events across different climatic sub-regions, quantifying the contribution of drought-heatwave interdependence to these events and assessing the impact of single extreme climate events on their proliferation. The study yielded several key findings: 1) The frequency, intensity, and duration of CDH events exhibited high spatial heterogeneity and a significant increasing trend over the study period. 2) A notable positive interdependence was observed between the occurrences of droughts and heatwaves, significantly contributing to the rise in CDH events. 3) Droughts exacerbated the intensity and duration of CDH events compared to heatwaves under non-drought conditions (NDCH). 4) The spatial distribution characteristics and the change indices of heatwaves and CDH events were strikingly similar, indicating a consistent evolution. Notably, the increase in heatwaves had a more pronounced influence on the escalation of CDH events compared to droughts. 5) The West Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) and the South Asian High (SAH) have had significant impacts on CDH events in mainland China. This research provides vital insights into the dynamics of CDH events, emphasizing their growing frequency and severity in the context of climate change. It offers a crucial perspective for policymakers and disaster management authorities in developing targeted strategies for climate adaptation and mitigation.
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- Penghui Shi
- College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering, Northwest A&F University/Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering, Northwest A&F University/Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China; College of Water Conservancy & Architectural Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang 832003, PR China.
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
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- College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering, Northwest A&F University/Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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- College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering, Northwest A&F University/Key Laboratory of Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering in Arid and Semiarid Areas, Ministry of Education, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, PR China
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Li X, Huntingford C, Wang K, Cui J, Xu H, Kan F, Anniwaer N, Yang H, Peñuelas J, Piao S. Increased crossing of thermal stress thresholds of vegetation under global warming. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2024; 30:e17406. [PMID: 38982862 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Revised: 05/27/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/11/2024]
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Temperature extremes exert a significant influence on terrestrial ecosystems, but the precise levels at which these extremes trigger adverse shifts in vegetation productivity have remained elusive. In this study, we have derived two critical thresholds, using standard deviations (SDs) of growing-season temperature and satellite-based vegetation productivity as key indicators. Our findings reveal that, on average, vegetation productivity experiences rapid suppression when confronted with temperature anomalies exceeding 1.45 SD above the mean temperature during 2001-2018. Furthermore, at temperatures exceeding 2.98 SD above the mean, we observe the maximum level of suppression, particularly in response to the most extreme high-temperature events. When Earth System Models are driven by a future medium emission scenario, they project that mean temperatures will routinely surpass both of these critical thresholds by approximately the years 2050 and 2070, respectively. However, it is important to note that the timing of these threshold crossings exhibits spatial variation and will appear much earlier in tropical regions. Our finding highlights that restricting global warming to just 1.5°C can increase safe areas for vegetation growth by 13% compared to allowing warming to reach 2°C above preindustrial levels. This mitigation strategy helps avoid exposure to detrimental extreme temperatures that breach these thresholds. Our study underscores the pivotal role of climate mitigation policies in fostering the sustainable development of terrestrial ecosystems in a warming world.
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- Xiangyi Li
- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Center for Excellence in Tibetan Earth Science, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- CREAF, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Center for Excellence in Tibetan Earth Science, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Peláez-Vico MÁ, Sinha R, Induri SP, Lyu Z, Venigalla SD, Vasireddy D, Singh P, Immadi MS, Pascual LS, Shostak B, Mendoza-Cózatl D, Joshi T, Fritschi FB, Zandalinas SI, Mittler R. The impact of multifactorial stress combination on reproductive tissues and grain yield of a crop plant. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2024; 117:1728-1745. [PMID: 38050346 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Revised: 11/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/06/2023]
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Global warming, climate change, and industrial pollution are altering our environment subjecting plants, microbiomes, and ecosystems to an increasing number and complexity of abiotic stress conditions, concurrently or sequentially. These conditions, termed, "multifactorial stress combination" (MFSC), can cause a significant decline in plant growth and survival. However, the impacts of MFSC on reproductive tissues and yield of major crop plants are largely unknown. We subjected soybean (Glycine max) plants to a MFSC of up to five different stresses (water deficit, salinity, low phosphate, acidity, and cadmium), in an increasing level of complexity, and conducted integrative transcriptomic-phenotypic analysis of their reproductive and vegetative tissues. We reveal that MFSC has a negative cumulative effect on soybean yield, that each set of MFSC condition elicits a unique transcriptomic response (that is different between flowers and leaves), and that selected genes expressed in leaves or flowers of soybean are linked to the effects of MFSC on different vegetative, physiological, and/or reproductive parameters. Our study identified networks and pathways associated with reactive oxygen species, ascorbic acid and aldarate, and iron/copper signaling/metabolism as promising targets for future biotechnological efforts to augment the resilience of reproductive tissues of major crop plants to MFSC. In addition, we provide unique phenotypic and transcriptomic datasets for dissecting the mechanistic effects of MFSC on the vegetative, physiological, and reproductive processes of a crop plant.
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- María Ángeles Peláez-Vico
- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
- MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
- Department of Health Management and Informatics, and Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65201, USA
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Pei J, Liu P, Feng Z, Chang M, Wang J, Fang H, Wang L, Huang B. Long-term trajectory of ozone impact on maize and soybean yields in the United States: A 40-year spatial-temporal analysis. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2024; 344:123407. [PMID: 38244900 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 01/22/2024]
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Understanding the long-term change trends of ozone-induced yield losses is crucial for formulating strategies to alleviate ozone damaging effects, aiming towards achieving the Zero Hunger Sustainable Development Goal. Despite a wealth of experimental research indicating that ozone's influence on agricultural production exhibits marked fluctuations and differs significantly across various geographical locations, previous studies using global statistical models often failed to capture this spatial-temporal variability, leading to uncertainties in ozone impact estimation. To address this issue, we conducted a comprehensive assessment of the spatial-temporal variability of ozone impacts on maize and soybean yields in the United States (1981-2021) using a geographically and temporally weighted regression (GTWR) model. Our results revealed that over the past four decades, ozone pollution has led to average yield losses of -3.5% for maize and -6.1% for soybean, translating into an annual economic loss of approximately $2.6 billion. Interestingly, despite an overall downward trend in ozone impacts on crop yields following the implementation of stringent ozone emission control measures in 1997, our study identified distinct peaks of abnormally high yield reduction rates in drought years. Significant spatial heterogeneity was detected in ozone impacts across the study area, with ozone damage hotspots located in the Southeast Region and the Mississippi River Basin for maize and soybean, respectively. Furthermore, we discovered that hydrothermal factors modulate crop responses to ozone, with maize showing an inverted U-shaped yield loss trend with temperature increases, while soybean demonstrated an upward trend. Both crops experienced amplified ozone-induced yield losses with rising precipitation. Overall, our study highlights the necessity of incorporating spatiotemporal variability into assessments of crop yield losses attributable to ozone pollution. The insights garnered from our findings can contribute to the formulation of region-specific pollutant emission policies, based on the distinct profiles of ozone-induced agricultural damage across different regions.
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- Jie Pei
- School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 519082, China; Key Laboratory of Natural Resources Monitoring in Tropical and Subtropical Area of South China, Ministry of Natural Resources, Zhuhai, 519082, China
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- School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, 519082, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Carbon Source and Sink, China Meteorological Administration (ECSS-CMA), School of Ecology and Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
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- Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Joint Laboratory of Collaborative Innovation for Environmental Quality, Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China
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- Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; The Zhongke-Ji'an Institute for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Ji'an, 343000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China
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- Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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Sinha R, Peláez-Vico MÁ, Shostak B, Nguyen TT, Pascual LS, Ogden AM, Lyu Z, Zandalinas SI, Joshi T, Fritschi FB, Mittler R. The effects of multifactorial stress combination on rice and maize. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 194:1358-1369. [PMID: 37847095 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 09/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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The complexity of environmental factors affecting crops in the field is gradually increasing due to climate change-associated weather events, such as droughts or floods combined with heat waves, coupled with the accumulation of different environmental and agricultural pollutants. The impact of multiple stress conditions on plants was recently termed "multifactorial stress combination" (MFSC) and defined as the occurrence of 3 or more stressors that impact plants simultaneously or sequentially. We recently reported that with the increased number and complexity of different MFSC stressors, the growth and survival of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings declines, even if the level of each individual stress is low enough to have no significant effect on plants. However, whether MFSC would impact commercial crop cultivars is largely unknown. Here, we reveal that a MFSC of 5 different low-level abiotic stresses (salinity, heat, the herbicide paraquat, phosphorus deficiency, and the heavy metal cadmium), applied in an increasing level of complexity, has a significant negative impact on the growth and biomass of a commercial rice (Oryza sativa) cultivar and a maize (Zea mays) hybrid. Proteomics, element content, and mixOmics analyses of MFSC in rice identified proteins that correlate with the impact of MFSC on rice seedlings, and analysis of 42 different rice genotypes subjected to MFSC revealed substantial genetic variability in responses to this unique state of stress combination. Taken together, our findings reveal that the impacts of MFSC on 2 different crop species are severe and that MFSC may substantially affect agricultural productivity.
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- Ranjita Sinha
- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Gehrke Proteomics Center, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana 12071, Spain
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana 12071, Spain
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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King KE, Cook ER, Anchukaitis KJ, Cook BI, Smerdon JE, Seager R, Harley GL, Spei B. Increasing prevalence of hot drought across western North America since the 16th century. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadj4289. [PMID: 38266096 PMCID: PMC10807802 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adj4289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024]
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Across western North America (WNA), 20th-21st century anthropogenic warming has increased the prevalence and severity of concurrent drought and heat events, also termed hot droughts. However, the lack of independent spatial reconstructions of both soil moisture and temperature limits the potential to identify these events in the past and to place them in a long-term context. We develop the Western North American Temperature Atlas (WNATA), a data-independent 0.5° gridded reconstruction of summer maximum temperatures back to the 16th century. Our evaluation of the WNATA with existing hydroclimate reconstructions reveals an increasing association between maximum temperature and drought severity in recent decades, relative to the past five centuries. The synthesis of these paleo-reconstructions indicates that the amplification of the modern WNA megadrought by increased temperatures and the frequency and spatial extent of compound hot and dry conditions in the 21st century are likely unprecedented since at least the 16th century.
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- Karen E. King
- Department of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1000 Phillip Fulmer Way, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Tree Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
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- Tree Ring Laboratory, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
- School of Geography, Development, and Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA
- Ocean and Climate Physics Division, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
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- Ocean and Climate Physics Division, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
- Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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- Ocean and Climate Physics Division, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
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- Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive MS3021, Moscow, ID 83843, USA
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- Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, 975 West 6th Street, Moscow, ID 83843, USA
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Li D, Liu B, Lu Y, Fu J. The characteristic of compound drought and saltwater intrusion events in the several major river estuaries worldwide. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2024; 350:119659. [PMID: 38029500 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 10/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Compound Drought and Saltwater intrusion Events (CDSEs) refer to hydrologic drought and saltwater intrusion occurring simultaneously or consecutively in estuaries, and exacerbate the negative impacts resulting from an individual extreme event. CDSEs have been drawing increasing attention due to their potential adverse impacts on water resources, crop production, and food security. A new Standardized compound Drought and Saltwater intrusion Index (SDSI) was developed in this study to systematically detect changes in the severity of CDSEs in six estuaries (Little Back, Ebro, Rhine, Orange, Pearl River and Murray). The results illustrated that (1) compared to the Standardized Runoff Index (SRI), SDSI effectively characterizes and quantifies the occurrences and severity of CDSEs in major river estuaries worldwide. (2) Temporally, the SDSI trend varied across estuaries. Specifically, a decreasing trend was observed in the Little Back, Ebro, and Orange estuaries, with corresponding Zs values of -2.43, -3.63, and -3.23. (3) Spatially, moderate CDSEs occurred more frequently among different estuaries, and their frequency, duration and severity varied in different estuaries. Notably, Ebro, Rhine and Murray River estuaries had the highest probability of CDSEs, nearing 60%. Among them, the Murray Estuary had the longest average duration, spanning 7.68 months, and the highest severity was 5.94. (4) According to the contributions analysis, saltwater intrusion plays a dominant role in influencing SDSI severity, accounting for a substantial percentage (54%-95.30%) compared to runoff. Notably, the Orange Estuary experienced the greatest impact from saltwater intrusion (81.54%-95.30%), while the Murray Estuary had relatively equal contributions from hydrological drought and saltwater intrusion.
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- Dan Li
- School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center of Water Security Regulation and Control for Southern China, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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- School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Pan X, Wang W, Shao Q, Wei J, Li H, Zhang F, Cao M, Yang L. Compound drought and heat waves variation and association with SST modes across China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 907:167934. [PMID: 37863227 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023]
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Compound drought and heatwaves (CDH) have garnered increasing attention because concurrent extreme events can exacerbate the harmful impacts caused by univariate extremes. However, various severities in CDH events and their relationships with sea surface temperature (SST) variations in China remain little understood. Here, we accurately identify CDH events and multi-aspect of characteristics using the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and the excess heat factor (EHF) during the extended summer (May-September) of 1961-2017. The evolution of multifaceted characteristics of CDH and their association with SST variation are further explored. The results suggest that the number, frequency, duration and intensity of regional CDH events show heterogeneous spatial patterns, with a significant increasing trend. A consistent abrupt transition in CDH characteristics averaged over China occurred in the period of 1993-1996. Mild and moderate CDHs occur more commonly in Northwest and North China, whereas severe CDHs are mainly found in central and eastern regions. Mild and moderate CDHs are more susceptible to SST modes than severe CDH, and there are strong positive correlations between mild and moderate CDH characteristics and SST variations in the northwest and northern regions. Compared to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) plays a dominant role in the intensifications of mild and moderate CDH events. Regionally, the northwest and north have experienced longer, more frequent and severe CDH events during the positive phase of IOD. These findings reveal the divergent evolutions in CDH characteristics with various severities and inconsistent impacts of different SST modes on the compound events.
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- Xiaolong Pan
- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
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- CSIRO Data 61, Australian Resources Research Centre, Bentley, WA, Australia
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- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China.
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- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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- The National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China; College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
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Sewell K, Paul S, De Polt K, Sugg MM, Leeper RD, Rao D, Runkle JD. Impacts of compounding drought and heatwave events on child mental health: insights from a spatial clustering analysis. DISCOVER MENTAL HEALTH 2024; 4:1. [PMID: 38168712 PMCID: PMC10761644 DOI: 10.1007/s44192-023-00055-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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BACKGROUND Concurrent heatwave and drought events may have larger health impacts than each event separately; however, no US-based studies have examined differential mental health impacts of compound drought and heatwave events in pediatric populations. OBJECTIVE To examine the spatial patterns of mood disorders and suicide-related emergency department (ED) visits in children during heatwave, drought, and compound heatwave and drought events. We tested whether the occurrence of compound heatwave and drought events have a synergistic (multiplicative) effect on the risk of mental health related outcomes in children as compared to the additive effect of each individual climate hazard. Lastly, we identified household and community-level determinants of geographic variability of high psychiatric burden. METHODS Daily counts of psychiatric ED visits in North Carolina from 2016 to 2019 (May to Sept) for pediatric populations were aggregated at the county scale. Bernoulli cluster analyses identified high-risk spatial clusters of psychiatric morbidity during heatwave, drought, or compound heatwave and drought periods. Multivariate adaptive regression models examined the individual importance of household and community-level determinants in predicting high-risk clustering of mood disorders or suicidality across the three climate threats. RESULTS Results showed significant spatial clustering of suicide and mood disorder risks in children during heatwave, drought, and compound event periods. Periods of drought were associated with the highest likelihood of spatial clustering for suicide and mood disorders, where the risk of an ED visit was 4.48 and 6.32 times higher, respectively, compared to non-drought periods. Compounding events were associated with a threefold increase in both suicide and mood disorder-related ED visits. Community and household vulnerability factors that most contributed to spatial clustering varied across climate hazards, but consistent determinants included residential segregation, green space availability, low English proficiency, overcrowding, no broadband access, no vehicle access, housing vacancy, and availability of housing units. CONCLUSION Findings advance understanding on the locations of vulnerable pediatric populations who are disproportionately exposed to compounding climate stressors and identify community resilience factors to target in public health adaptation strategies.
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- Kelly Sewell
- North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, 1520 Clifton Road, NE Atlanta, GA, 30322-4027, USA
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- North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
- Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Geography & Planning, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
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- North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- North Carolina Institute of Climate Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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Ding C, Newbold T, Ameca EI. Assessing the global vulnerability of dryland birds to heatwaves. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2024; 30:e17136. [PMID: 38273501 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 12/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024]
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As global average surface temperature increases, extreme climatic events such as heatwaves are becoming more frequent and intense, which can drive biodiversity responses such as rapid population declines and/or shifts in species distributions and even local extirpations. However, the impacts of extreme climatic events are largely ignored in conservation plans. Birds are known to be susceptible to heatwaves, especially in dryland ecosystems. Understanding which birds are most vulnerable to heatwaves, and where these birds occur, can offer a scientific basis for adaptive management and conservation. We assessed the relative vulnerability of 1196 dryland bird species to heatwaves using a trait-based approach. Among them, 888 bird species are estimated to be vulnerable to heatwaves (170 highly vulnerable, eight extremely vulnerable), of which ~91% are currently considered non-threatened by the IUCN, which suggests that many species will likely become newly threatened with intensifying climate change. We identified the top three hotspot areas of heatwave-vulnerable species in Australia (208 species), Southern Africa (125 species) and Eastern Africa (99 species). Populations of vulnerable species recorded in the Living Planet Database were found to be declining significantly faster than those of non-vulnerable species (p = .048) after heatwaves occurred. In contrast, no significant difference in population trends between vulnerable and non-vulnerable species was detected when no heatwave occurred (p = .34). This suggests that our vulnerability framework correctly identified vulnerable species and that heatwaves are already impacting the population trends of these species. Our findings will help prioritize heatwave-vulnerable birds in dryland ecosystems in risk mitigation and adaptation management as the frequency of heatwaves accelerates in the coming decades.
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- Chenchen Ding
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
- Climate Change Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland
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Sinha R, Induri SP, Peláez-Vico MÁ, Tukuli A, Shostak B, Zandalinas SI, Joshi T, Fritschi FB, Mittler R. The transcriptome of soybean reproductive tissues subjected to water deficit, heat stress, and a combination of water deficit and heat stress. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2023; 116:1064-1080. [PMID: 37006191 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.16222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2023] [Revised: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Global warming and climate change are driving an alarming increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events, such as droughts, heat waves, and their combination, inflicting heavy losses to agricultural production. Recent studies revealed that the transcriptomic responses of different crops to water deficit (WD) or heat stress (HS) are very different from that to a combination of WD + HS. In addition, it was found that the effects of WD, HS, and WD + HS are significantly more devastating when these stresses occur during the reproductive growth phase of crops, compared to vegetative growth. As the molecular responses of different reproductive and vegetative tissues of plants to WD, HS, or WD + HS could be different from each other and these differences could impact many current and future attempts to enhance the resilience of crops to climate change through breeding and/or engineering, we conducted a transcriptomic analysis of different soybean (Glycine max) tissues to WD, HS, and WD + HS. Here we present a reference transcriptomic dataset that includes the response of soybean leaf, pod, anther, stigma, ovary, and sepal to WD, HS, and WD + HS conditions. Mining this dataset for the expression pattern of different stress response transcripts revealed that each tissue had a unique transcriptomic response to each of the different stress conditions. This finding is important as it suggests that enhancing the overall resilience of crops to climate change could require a coordinated approach that simultaneously alters the expression of different groups of transcripts in different tissues in a stress-specific manner.
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- Ranjita Sinha
- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
- Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
- Department of Health Management and Informatics, and Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Science and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65201, USA
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Tripathy KP, Mukherjee S, Mishra AK, Mann ME, Williams AP. Climate change will accelerate the high-end risk of compound drought and heatwave events. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2219825120. [PMID: 37399379 PMCID: PMC10334742 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2219825120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/05/2023] Open
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Compound drought and heatwave (CDHW) events have garnered increased attention due to their significant impacts on agriculture, energy, water resources, and ecosystems. We quantify the projected future shifts in CDHW characteristics (such as frequency, duration, and severity) due to continued anthropogenic warming relative to the baseline recent observed period (1982 to 2019). We combine weekly drought and heatwave information for 26 climate divisions across the globe, employing historical and projected model output from eight Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 GCMs and three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Statistically significant trends are revealed in the CDHW characteristics for both recent observed and model simulated future period (2020 to 2099). East Africa, North Australia, East North America, Central Asia, Central Europe, and Southeastern South America show the greatest increase in frequency through the late 21st century. The Southern Hemisphere displays a greater projected increase in CDHW occurrence, while the Northern Hemisphere displays a greater increase in CDHW severity. Regional warmings play a significant role in CDHW changes in most regions. These findings have implications for minimizing the impacts of extreme events and developing adaptation and mitigation policies to cope with increased risk on water, energy, and food sectors in critical geographical regions.
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- Kumar P. Tripathy
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC29634
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC29634
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC29634
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- Department of Earth & Environmental Science University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA19104-6316
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- Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, CA90095
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY10096
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Ghanbari M, Arabi M, Georgescu M, Broadbent AM. The role of climate change and urban development on compound dry-hot extremes across US cities. Nat Commun 2023; 14:3509. [PMID: 37316472 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39205-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 06/01/2023] [Indexed: 06/16/2023] Open
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Compound dry-hot extreme (CDHE) events pose greater risks to the environment, society, and human health than their univariate counterparts. Here, we project decadal-length changes in the frequency and duration of CDHE events for major U.S. cities during the 21st century. Using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled to an urban canopy parameterization, we find a considerable increase in the frequency and duration of future CDHE events across all U.S. major cities under the compound effect of high-intensity GHG- and urban development-induced warming. Our results indicate that while GHG-induced warming is the primary driver of the increased frequency and duration of CDHE events, urban development amplifies this effect and should not be neglected. Furthermore, We show that the highest frequency amplification of major CDHE events is expected for U.S. cities across the Great Plains South, Southwest, and the southern part of the Northwest National Climate Assessment regions.
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- Mahshid Ghanbari
- Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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- Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Urban Climate Research Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- National Institute of Weather and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
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Sinha R, Shostak B, Induri SP, Sen S, Zandalinas SI, Joshi T, Fritschi FB, Mittler R. Differential transpiration between pods and leaves during stress combination in soybean. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 192:753-766. [PMID: 36810691 PMCID: PMC10231362 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts, heat waves, and their combinations, diminishing agricultural productivity and destabilizing societies worldwide. We recently reported that during a combination of water deficit (WD) and heat stress (HS), stomata on leaves of soybean (Glycine max) plants are closed, while stomata on flowers are open. This unique stomatal response was accompanied by differential transpiration (higher in flowers, while lower in leaves) that cooled flowers during a combination of WD + HS. Here, we reveal that developing pods of soybean plants subjected to a combination of WD + HS use a similar acclimation strategy of differential transpiration to reduce internal pod temperature by approximately 4 °C. We further show that enhanced expression of transcripts involved in abscisic acid degradation accompanies this response and that preventing pod transpiration by sealing stomata causes a significant increase in internal pod temperature. Using an RNA-Seq analysis of pods developing on plants subjected to WD + HS, we also show that the response of pods to WD, HS, or WD + HS is distinct from that of leaves or flowers. Interestingly, we report that although the number of flowers, pods, and seeds per plant decreases under conditions of WD + HS, the seed mass of plants subjected to WD + HS increases compared to plants subjected to HS, and the number of seeds with suppressed/aborted development is lower in WD + HS compared to HS. Taken together, our findings reveal that differential transpiration occurs in pods of soybean plants subjected to WD + HS and that this process limits heat-induced damage to seed production.
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- Ranjita Sinha
- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana 12071, Spain
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- Department of Health Management and Informatics, and Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
- Department of Surgery, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65201, USA
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Zhao L, Li X, Zhang Z, Yuan M, Sun S, Qu S, Hou M, Lu D, Zhou Y, Lin A. Developing a novel framework to re-examine half a century of compound drought and heatwave events in mainland China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 874:162366. [PMID: 36848990 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Compound drought and heatwave events (CDHEs) are more devastating than single drought or heatwave events and have gained widespread attention. However, previous studies have not investigated the impacts of the precipitation attenuation effect (PAE) (i.e., the effect of previous precipitation on the dryness and wetness of the current system is attenuated) and event merging (EM) (i.e., merging two CDHEs with short intervals into a single event). Moreover, few studies have assessed short-term CDHEs within monthly scales and their variation characteristics under different background temperatures. Here we propose a novel framework for assessing CDHEs on a daily scale and considering the PAE and EM. We applied this framework to mainland China and investigated the spatiotemporal variation of the CDHE indicators (spatial extent (CDHEspa), frequency (CDHEfre), duration (CHHEdur), and severity (CDHEsev)) from 1968 to 2019. The results suggested that ignoring the PAE and EM led to significant changes in the spatial distribution and magnitude of the CDHE indicators. Daily-scale assessments allowed for monitoring the detailed evolution of CDHEs and facilitated the timely development of mitigation measures. Mainland China experienced frequent CDHEs from 1968 to 2019 (except for the southwestern part of Northwest China (NWC) and the western part of Southwest China (SWC)), whereas, hotspot areas of CDHEdur and CDHEsev had a patchy distribution in different geographical subregions. The CDHE indicators were higher in the warmer 1994-2019 period than in the colder 1968-1993 period, but the rate of increase of the indicators was lower or there was a downward trend. Overall, CDHEs in mainland China have been in a state of remarkable continuous strengthening over the past half a century. This study provides a new quantitative analysis approach for CDHEs.
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- Lin Zhao
- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
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- School of Geography Science and Geomatics Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, China
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- School of Public Administration and Human Geography, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha 410205, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LASW), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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- School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Ren C, Zhang X, Reis S, Wang S, Jin J, Xu J, Gu B. Climate change unequally affects nitrogen use and losses in global croplands. NATURE FOOD 2023; 4:294-304. [PMID: 37117545 DOI: 10.1038/s43016-023-00730-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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Maintaining food production while reducing agricultural nitrogen pollution is a grand challenge under global climate change. Yet, the response of global agricultural nitrogen uses and losses to climate change on the temporal and spatial scales has not been fully characterized. Here, using historical data for 1961-2018 from over 150 countries, we show that global warming leads to small temporal but substantial spatial impacts on cropland nitrogen use and losses. Yield and nitrogen use efficiency increase in 29% and 56% of countries, respectively, whereas they reduce in the remaining countries compared with the situation without global warming in 2018. Precipitation and farm size changes would further intensify the spatial variations of nitrogen use and losses globally, but managing farm size could increase the global cropland nitrogen use efficiency to over 70% by 2100. Our results reveal the importance of reducing global inequalities of agricultural nitrogen use and losses to sustain global agriculture production and reduce agricultural pollution.
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- Chenchen Ren
- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Department of Land Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Policy Simulation Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- School of Agriculture and Food, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, UK
- University of Exeter Medical School, Knowledge Spa, Truro, UK
- The University of Edinburgh, School of Chemistry, Edinburgh, UK
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Policy Simulation Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
- Key Laboratory of Water Big Data Technology of Ministry of Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- Policy Simulation Laboratory, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Environment Remediation and Ecological Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
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Alizadeh MR, Abatzoglou JT, Adamowski J, Modaresi Rad A, AghaKouchak A, Pausata FSR, Sadegh M. Elevation-dependent intensification of fire danger in the western United States. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1773. [PMID: 36997514 PMCID: PMC10063545 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37311-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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Studies have identified elevation-dependent warming trends, but investigations of such trends in fire danger are absent in the literature. Here, we demonstrate that while there have been widespread increases in fire danger across the mountainous western US from 1979 to 2020, trends were most acute at high-elevation regions above 3000 m. The greatest increase in the number of days conducive to large fires occurred at 2500-3000 m, adding 63 critical fire danger days between 1979 and 2020. This includes 22 critical fire danger days occurring outside the warm season (May-September). Furthermore, our findings indicate increased elevational synchronization of fire danger in western US mountains, which can facilitate increased geographic opportunities for ignitions and fire spread that further complicate fire management operations. We hypothesize that several physical mechanisms underpinned the observed trends, including elevationally disparate impacts of earlier snowmelt, intensified land-atmosphere feedbacks, irrigation, and aerosols, in addition to widespread warming/drying.
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- Mohammad Reza Alizadeh
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Management of Complex Systems Department, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA
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- Department of Bioresource Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Department of Earth System Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Quebec in Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA.
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Obahoundje S, Nguessan-Bi VH, Diedhiou A, Kravitz B, Moore JC. Implication of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering on compound precipitation and temperature extremes in Africa. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 863:160806. [PMID: 36496021 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Revised: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Three Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) models that simulated the G4 experiment of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) were used to investigate the impact of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) on combined temperature and precipitation extremes in Africa that can have greater negative impacts on human and the environment than individual rainfall or temperature extremes. The examined compound extremes included the dry (Rwarm׀dry and Rcold׀dry) and wet (Rwarm׀wet and Rcold׀wet) modes assessed during the injection (SAI, 2050-2069) and post-injection (postSAI, 2070-2089) periods compared with the historical period (1986-2005). We found a significant projected change in the occurrence of both wet and dry modes during SAI and postSAI related to the historical period. The magnitude and sign of this change depend on the season and the geographical location. During the SAI and postSAI, the wet (Rwarm׀wet and Rcold׀wet) modes are projected to be significantly lower while the dry modes are noted to increase in a large part of African continent depending on the season and the geographical location and may consequently leads to an increase of the droughts prone areas. The termination effect is noted to reduce the occurrence of dry modes, which may reduce the potential negative effects of the injection after halting. As the effect may vary from one region to another and according to the season, it suggested assessing the key sector impacts of SAI. Thus, this change in dry modes due to SAI could affect all activities which depend on water resources such as water supply, agriculture and food production, energy demand, and production with adverse effects on health, security, and sustainable development, but this needs to be assessed and quantified at regional scales.
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- Salomon Obahoundje
- LASMES - African Centre of Excellence on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture/University Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
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- CURAT (University Center of Applied Reseach in Remote Sensing), University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 22 BP 801 Abidjan 22, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
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- LASMES - African Centre of Excellence on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture/University Félix Houphouët Boigny, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire; Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IRD, CNRS, Grenoble INP, IGE, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA; Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
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- Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland; State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Still CJ, Sibley A, DePinte D, Busby PE, Harrington CA, Schulze M, Shaw DR, Woodruff D, Rupp DE, Daly C, Hammond WM, Page GFM. Causes of widespread foliar damage from the June 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome: more heat than drought. TREE PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 43:203-209. [PMID: 36611006 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpac143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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- C J Still
- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State & Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection, Redmond, OR 97756, USA
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Olympia, WA 98512, USA
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- Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- PRISM Climate Group, Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, Locked Bag 104, Bentley Delivery Centre, Bentley, Western Australia 6983, Australia
- CSIRO Land and Water, Private Bag 5, Wembley, Western Australia 6913, Australia
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Ruffault J, Limousin JM, Pimont F, Dupuy JL, De Càceres M, Cochard H, Mouillot F, Blackman CJ, Torres-Ruiz JM, Parsons RA, Moreno M, Delzon S, Jansen S, Olioso A, Choat B, Martin-StPaul N. Plant hydraulic modelling of leaf and canopy fuel moisture content reveals increasing vulnerability of a Mediterranean forest to wildfires under extreme drought. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2023; 237:1256-1269. [PMID: 36366950 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Fuel moisture content (FMC) is a crucial driver of forest fires in many regions world-wide. Yet, the dynamics of FMC in forest canopies as well as their physiological and environmental determinants remain poorly understood, especially under extreme drought. We embedded a FMC module in the trait-based, plant-hydraulic SurEau-Ecos model to provide innovative process-based predictions of leaf live fuel moisture content (LFMC) and canopy fuel moisture content (CFMC) based on leaf water potential ( ψ Leaf ). SurEau-Ecos-FMC relies on pressure-volume (p-v) curves to simulate LFMC and vulnerability curves to cavitation to simulate foliage mortality. SurEau-Ecos-FMC accurately reproduced ψ Leaf and LFMC dynamics as well as the occurrence of foliage mortality in a Mediterranean Quercus ilex forest. Several traits related to water use (leaf area index, available soil water, and transpiration regulation), vulnerability to cavitation, and p-v curves (full turgor osmotic potential) had the greatest influence on LFMC and CFMC dynamics. As the climate gets drier, our results showed that drought-induced foliage mortality is expected to increase, thereby significantly decreasing CFMC. Our results represent an important advance in our capacity to understand and predict the sensitivity of forests to wildfires.
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- Université Clermont-Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, 34000, Montpellier, France
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas., 7001, Australia
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- Université Clermont-Auvergne, INRAE, PIAF, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Fire Sciences Laboratory, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT, 59808, USA
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- Institute of Systematic Botany and Ecology, Ulm University, D-89081, Ulm, Germany
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- Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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Fang W, Li Z, Gao J, Meng R, He G, Hou Z, Zhu S, Zhou M, Zhou C, Xiao Y, Yu M, Huang B, Xu X, Lin L, Xiao J, Jin D, Qin M, Yin P, Xu Y, Hu J, Liu T, Huang C, Ma W. The joint and interaction effect of high temperature and humidity on mortality in China. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2023; 171:107669. [PMID: 36508749 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2022.107669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 11/20/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Although many studies have reported the mortality effect of temperature, there were few studies on the mortality risk of humidity, let alone the joint effect of temperature and humidity. This study aimed to investigate the joint and interaction effect of high temperature and relative humidity on mortality in China, which will deepen understanding the health risk of mixture climate exposure. METHODS The mortality and meteorological data were collected from 353 locations in China (2013-2017 in Jilin, Hunan, Guangdong and Yunnan provinces, 2009-2017 in Zhejiang province, and 2006-2011 in other Provinces). We defined location-specific daily mean temperature ≥ 75th percentile of distribution as high temperature, while minimum mortality relative humidity as the threshold of high relative humidity. A time-series model with a distributed lag non-linear model was first employed to estimate the location-specific associations between humid-hot events and mortality, then we conducted meta-analysis to pool the mortality effect of humid-hot events. Finally, an additive interaction model was used to examine the interactive effect between high temperature and relative humidity. RESULTS The excess rate (ER) of non-accidental mortality attributed to dry-hot events was 10.18% (95% confidence interval (CI): 8.93%, 11.45%), which was higher than that of wet-hot events (ER = 3.21%, 95% CI: 0.59%, 5.89%). The attributable fraction (AF) of mortality attributed to dry-hot events was 10.00% (95% CI: 9.50%, 10.72%) with higher burden for females, older people, central China, cardiovascular diseases and urban city. While for wet-hot events, AF was much lower (3.31%, 95% CI: 2.60%, 4.30%). We also found that high temperature and low relative humidity had synergistic additive interaction on mortality risk. CONCLUSION Dry-hot events may have a higher risk of mortality than wet-hot events, and the joint effect of high temperature and low relative humidity may be greater than the sum of their individual effects.
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- Wen Fang
- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- School of Public Health, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 511430, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Jilin Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changchun 130062, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- The National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China
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- Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha 410005, China
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- Yunnan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming 650034, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hangzhou 310009, China
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- Jilin Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changchun 130062, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 511430, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 511430, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 511430, China
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- Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha 410005, China
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- Yunnan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming 650034, China
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- The National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China
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- Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha 410005, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou 511430, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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Wang H, Yin Z, Zhang L, Zhao F, Huang W, Wang X, Gao Y. Irrigation modulates the effect of increasing temperatures under climate change on cotton production of drip irrigation under plastic film mulching in southern Xinjiang. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2022; 13:1069190. [PMID: 36578348 PMCID: PMC9791039 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1069190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Warming and drought brought about by climate change seriously harm sustainable agricultural production in southern Xinjiang. It is still unclear how irrigation can improve the ability of crops to cope with climate change. METHODS Therefore, in this study, we calibrated and validated the AquaCrop model using data collected in cotton production from 2017 to 2018. The model effectively simulated the growth, biomass, and yield of cotton plants at the experimental site under different warming and irrigation conditions. The meteorological data collected from 1987 to 2016 were used in a simulation to predict cotton production under 3 temperature scenarios (temperature increased by 0°C, 1°C, and 2°C) and 6 levels of irrigation (198, 264, 330, 396, 495, and 594 mm) to explain the modulating effect of plastic film mulching-coupled drip irrigation on cotton production in terms of increasing temperatures under climate change in southern Xinjiang. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Model prediction showed that an increase in temperature reduced cotton yield under a low irrigation level, while an increase in irrigation mitigated the impact of climate change on cotton yield. An increase of 1°C did not significantly reduce cotton yield at 198-330 mm of irrigation. Under a 2°C increase, 396-594 mm of irrigation was required to ensure plant growth and yield formation. Both aboveground biomass and yield increased with the rise in the irrigation level at the same temperature. High water use efficiency was achieved at 495 mm of irrigation without significant yield loss. Therefore, in the low-temperature scenario, it can be preferentially considered to achieve sustainable water use through water management, while in the high-temperature scenario innovative agricultural measures are required to avoid yield loss. Optimizing irrigation strategies can reduce warming-induced damage to crops under climate change.
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- Hongbo Wang
- College of Water Hydraulic and Architectural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
- Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
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- College of Water Hydraulic and Architectural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
- Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
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- College of Water Hydraulic and Architectural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
- Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
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- College of Water Hydraulic and Architectural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
- Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
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- Hubei Key Laboratory of Yangtze Catchment Environmental Aquatic Science, School of Environmental Studies, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China
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- College of Water Hydraulic and Architectural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
- Laboratory of Modern Agricultural Engineering, Tarim University, Alaer, China
- Key Laboratory of Northwest Oasis Water-Saving Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shihezi, China
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- Institute of Farmland Irrigation, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xinxiang, Henan, China
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Wang Y, Yuan X. Land-atmosphere coupling speeds up flash drought onset. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 851:158109. [PMID: 35987240 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2022] [Revised: 08/14/2022] [Accepted: 08/14/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Flash drought is a type of drought with rapid onset and great destructiveness, which poses a serious threat to agriculture, ecosystem, and environment without sufficient early warning. The rapid onset is a unique feature that distinguishes flash drought from conventional dry conditions, but its underlying mechanism remains unclear. With the 42-years reanalysis data, we compared the differences in convective triggering potential and atmospheric humidity indices between flash drought onset and conventional dry conditions over China. We found that the dry land-atmospheric coupling can speed up flash drought onset by suppressing precipitation and increasing evapotranspiration. Results show that the increase of sensible heat transport during flash drought onset can intensify the heating of atmosphere, and enhance the lifting condensation level deficit which efficiently inhibits the convective precipitation. Meanwhile, the atmospheric drying significantly increases the evapotranspiration demand and decreases soil moisture, thus speeds up the drought onset. In this regard, the drier land surface makes the atmosphere drier through land-atmosphere coupling, and the rapid drought onset can be maintained via the positive feedback. Although the contribution of precipitation deficit averaged over China is 92 %, the evapotranspiration excess is also critical for increasing the onset speed especially over South China where the flash drought hotspot exists. With the contribution of evapotranspiration increased by about 26 %, the flash drought onset speed over China almost doubled. This study highlights the importance of dry land-atmospheric coupling for speeding up flash drought onset and provides insights for flash drought diagnosis and prediction.
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- Yumiao Wang
- Key Laboratory of Hydrometeorological Disaster Mechanism and Warning of Ministry of Water Resources, Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China; School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Hydrometeorological Disaster Mechanism and Warning of Ministry of Water Resources, Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China; School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, Jiangsu, China.
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Rajeev A, Mahto SS, Mishra V. Climate warming and summer monsoon breaks drive compound dry and hot extremes in India. iScience 2022; 25:105377. [PMID: 36345335 PMCID: PMC9636558 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Revised: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Considering the severe impacts of compound dry and hot extremes, we examine the primary drivers of CDHEs during the summer monsoon in India. Using ERA5 reanalysis, we show that most of the CDHEs in India occur during the droughts caused by the summer monsoon rainfall deficit. Despite a decline in the frequency of summer monsoon droughts in recent decades, increased CDHEs are mainly driven by warming and dry spells during the summer monsoon particularly in the Northeast, central northeast, and west central regions. A strong land-atmospheric coupling during droughts in the summer monsoon season leads to frequent CDHEs in the Northwest and southern peninsular regions. Furthermore, regional variations in land-atmospheric coupling cause substantial differences in the CDHE occurrence in different parts of the country. Summer monsoon rainfall variability and increased warming can pose a greater risk of compound dry and hot extremes with severe impacts on various sectors in India.
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- Akshay Rajeev
- Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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- Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
- Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
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Libonati R, Geirinhas JL, Silva PS, Monteiro Dos Santos D, Rodrigues JA, Russo A, Peres LF, Narcizo L, Gomes MER, Rodrigues AP, DaCamara CC, Pereira JMC, Trigo RM. Drought-heatwave nexus in Brazil and related impacts on health and fires: A comprehensive review. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2022; 1517:44-62. [PMID: 36052446 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Climate change is drastically altering the frequency, duration, and severity of compound drought-heatwave (CDHW) episodes, which present a new challenge in environmental and socioeconomic sectors. These threats are of particular importance in low-income regions with growing populations, fragile infrastructure, and threatened ecosystems. This review synthesizes emerging progress in the understanding of CDHW patterns in Brazil while providing insights about the impacts on fire occurrence and public health. Evidence is mounting that heatwaves are becoming increasingly linked with droughts in northeastern and southeastern Brazil, the Amazonia, and the Pantanal. In those regions, recent studies have begun to build a better understanding of the physical mechanisms behind CDHW events, such as the soil moisture-atmosphere coupling, promoted by exceptional atmospheric blocking conditions. Results hint at a synergy between CDHW events and high fire activity in the country over the last decades, with the most recent example being the catastrophic 2020 fires in the Pantanal. Moreover, we show that HWs were responsible for increasing mortality and preterm births during record-breaking droughts in southeastern Brazil. This work paves the way for a more in-depth understanding on CDHW events and their impacts, which is crucial to enhance the adaptive capacity of different Brazilian sectors.
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- Renata Libonati
- Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.,Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.,TERRA Associate Laboratory, Tapada da Ajuda, Portugal
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- Departamento de Meteorologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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Pascual LS, Segarra-Medina C, Gómez-Cadenas A, López-Climent MF, Vives-Peris V, Zandalinas SI. Climate change-associated multifactorial stress combination: A present challenge for our ecosystems. JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2022; 276:153764. [PMID: 35841741 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2022.153764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Revised: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/03/2022] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Humans negatively influence Earth ecosystems and biodiversity causing global warming, climate change as well as man-made pollution. Recently, the number of different stress factors have increased, and when impacting simultaneously, the multiple stress conditions cause dramatic declines in plant and ecosystem health. Although much is known about how plants and ecosystems are affected by each individual stress, recent research efforts have diverted into how these biological systems respond to several of these stress conditions applied together. Studies of such "multifactorial stress combination" concept have reported a severe decrease in plant survival and microbiome biodiversity along the increasing number of factors in a consistent directional trend. In addition, these results are in concert with studies about how ecosystems and microbiota are affected by natural conditions imposed by climate change. Therefore, all this evidence should serve as an important warning in order to decrease pollutants, create strategies to deal with global warming, and increase the tolerance of plants to multiple stressful factors in combination. Here we review recent studies focused on the impact of abiotic stresses on plants, agrosystems and different ecosystems including forests and microecosystems. In addition, different strategies to mitigate the impact of climate change in ecosystems are discussed.
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- Lidia S Pascual
- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain.
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Qiu L, Chen J, Fan L, Sun L, Zheng C. High-resolution mapping of wildfire drivers in California based on machine learning. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 833:155155. [PMID: 35413339 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Wildfires are important natural disturbances of ecosystems; however, they threaten the sustainability of ecosystems, climate and humans worldwide. It is vital to quantify and map the controlling drivers of wildfires for effective wildfire prediction and risk management. However, high-resolution mapping of wildfire drivers remains challenging. Here we established machine-learning (Random Forests) models using 23 climate and land surface variables as model inputs to reconstruct the spatial variability and seasonality of wildfire occurrence and extent in California. The importance of individual drivers was then quantified based on the Shapley value method. Thus, we provided spatially resolved maps of wildfire drivers at high resolutions up to 0.004° × 0.004°. The results indicated that precipitation and soil moisture are the major drivers dominating 37% of the total burnt area for large and extreme wildfires in summer and 63% in autumn, while elevation plays a major role for 15-58% of burnt areas in small wildfires in all seasons. Winds are also an important contributor to summer wildfires, accounting for 41% of large and extreme burnt areas. This study enhanced our knowledge of spatial variability of wildfire drivers across diverse landscapes in a fine-scale mapping, providing valuable perspectives and case studies for other regions of the world with frequently occurred wildfire.
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- Linghua Qiu
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China; Shenzhen Institute of Sustainable Development, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.
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Sinha R, Zandalinas SI, Fichman Y, Sen S, Zeng S, Gómez-Cadenas A, Joshi T, Fritschi FB, Mittler R. Differential regulation of flower transpiration during abiotic stress in annual plants. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 235:611-629. [PMID: 35441705 PMCID: PMC9323482 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Accepted: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Heat waves occurring during droughts can have a devastating impact on yield, especially if they happen during the flowering and seed set stages of the crop cycle. Global warming and climate change are driving an alarming increase in the frequency and intensity of combined drought and heat stress episodes, critically threatening global food security. Because high temperature is detrimental to reproductive processes, essential for plant yield, we measured the inner temperature, transpiration, sepal stomatal aperture, hormone concentrations and transcriptomic response of closed soybean flowers developing on plants subjected to a combination of drought and heat stress. Here, we report that, during a combination of drought and heat stress, soybean plants prioritize transpiration through flowers over transpiration through leaves by opening their flower stomata, while keeping their leaf stomata closed. This acclimation strategy, termed 'differential transpiration', lowers flower inner temperature by about 2-3°C, protecting reproductive processes at the expense of vegetative tissues. Manipulating stomatal regulation, stomatal size and/or stomatal density of flowers could serve as a viable strategy to enhance the yield of different crops and mitigate some of the current and future impacts of global warming and climate change on agriculture.
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- Ranjita Sinha
- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y del Medio Natural, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y del Medio Natural, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Institute for Data Science and Informatics and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- Department of Health Management and Informatics, and Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Technology, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
- Department of Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65201, USA
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He Y, Hu X, Xu W, Fang J, Shi P. Increased probability and severity of compound dry and hot growing seasons over world's major croplands. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 824:153885. [PMID: 35182627 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Revised: 01/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/11/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Dry and hot extremes are major sources of risk to crop yields, and their impacts are expected to increase under future global warming. The co-occurring dry and hot conditions during crop growing seasons have amplified impacts on crop health that are even larger than the sum of their individual impacts, which may cause crop failure. In this study, we focus on the compound dry and hot growing seasons (hereafter CDHGS) for global wheat, rice, maize and soybean in the period 1951-2020. Total precipitation (TP) and accumulated active temperature (AAT) are used as indicators of overall water stress and heat stress, respectively, at the growing season scale. A copula model is used to construct joint distributions of TP and AAT sequences to investigate the joint behavior of dry and hot conditions during crop growing seasons. Our results indicate that after 1980, the growing seasons of the four crops become drier and more rapidly hotter across the globe, the probability of extreme CDHGS (P(TP ≤ TP25,AAT > AAT75)) increases in more than 80% of global croplands, the severity of CDHGS increases in more than 83% of global croplands, especially in Europe, Central Africa and eastern China. This study provides a global dimension analysis on the changes in compound dry and hot stresses within crops growing seasons in the context of global warming, offering helpful techniques to study the interaction between multi-hazards that occur during crop growth processes, which can effectively contribute to guiding the decision-making processes related to risk reduction and agricultural practices.
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- Yan He
- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management & Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science, Ministry of Education, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Emergency Management & Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Academy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, People's Government of Qinghai Province and Beijing Normal University, Xining 810016, China.
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Assessing Xeriscaping as a Retrofit Sustainable Water Consumption Approach for a Desert University Campus. WATER 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/w14111681] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Assessing water usage associated with urban green infrastructure is crucial for water resource management and sustainable planning of desert campus areas. A public university campus layout in the desert region is considered an urban city subject to urban water consumption (UWC) of significant intensity and extent, even though the urban layout is essential to all campus occupants’ comfort and environmental sustainability needs. Hence, there is a need to reduce its detrimental effects through sustainable methods for campus water content. This study focuses on assessing urban xeriscaping landscape quantities as a practical potential approach to support university campus decision-makers in reducing urban water consumption and preserving the urban campus water content as asset management and life quality. Four selected landscape field experiments were undertaken by adopting xeriscaping landscape design instead of existing conventional urban design at King Faisal University’s (KFU) campus layout, Al-Ahsaa, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia. The study built a specific practical sustainability retrofit approach in water conservation from conventional to xeriscaping method inside the existing public desert campus area. Applying the study approach framework considering xeriscaping layout design provided sustainability requirements, retrofit approach, and pathway to effective landscape mapping, based on reasonable and accurate quantities of xeriscaping landscape items, to convert the KFU campus layout as a low water consumption campus with an average reduction of 41% water consumption within the remaining campus layout. The results of this study contribute to the water conservation and management in university desert campus and opens the door for other studies on the use of this approach for thermal reduction, economic and environmental benefits beside its value for water reduction.
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Zandalinas SI, Mittler R. Plant responses to multifactorial stress combination. THE NEW PHYTOLOGIST 2022; 234:1161-1167. [PMID: 35278228 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2022] [Accepted: 02/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Human activity is causing a global change in plant environment that includes a significant increase in the number and intensity of different stress factors. These include combinations of multiple abiotic and biotic stressors that simultaneously or sequentially impact plants and microbiomes, causing a significant decrease in plant growth, yield and overall health. It was recently found that with the increasing number and complexity of stressors simultaneously impacting a plant, plant growth and survival decline dramatically, even if the level of each individual stress, involved in such 'multifactorial stress combination', is low enough not to have a significant effect. Here we highlight this new concept of multifactorial stress combination and discuss its importance for our efforts to develop climate change-resilient crops.
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- Sara I Zandalinas
- Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University Jaume I, Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n, Castelló de la Plana, 12071, Spain
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- Division of Plant Sciences and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, 1201 Rollins Street, Columbia, MO, 65201, USA
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Hammond WM, Williams AP, Abatzoglou JT, Adams HD, Klein T, López R, Sáenz-Romero C, Hartmann H, Breshears DD, Allen CD. Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth's forests. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1761. [PMID: 35383157 PMCID: PMC8983702 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29289-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 121] [Impact Index Per Article: 40.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Earth's forests face grave challenges in the Anthropocene, including hotter droughts increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events. But despite the vital importance of forests to global ecosystem services, their fates in a warming world remain highly uncertain. Lacking is quantitative determination of commonality in climate anomalies associated with pulses of tree mortality-from published, field-documented mortality events-required for understanding the role of extreme climate events in overall global tree die-off patterns. Here we established a geo-referenced global database documenting climate-induced mortality events spanning all tree-supporting biomes and continents, from 154 peer-reviewed studies since 1970. Our analysis quantifies a global "hotter-drought fingerprint" from these tree-mortality sites-effectively a hotter and drier climate signal for tree mortality-across 675 locations encompassing 1,303 plots. Frequency of these observed mortality-year climate conditions strongly increases nonlinearly under projected warming. Our database also provides initial footing for further community-developed, quantitative, ground-based monitoring of global tree mortality.
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- William M. Hammond
- grid.15276.370000 0004 1936 8091Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
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- grid.19006.3e0000 0000 9632 6718Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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- grid.266096.d0000 0001 0049 1282Management of Complex Systems, University of California, Merced, CA USA
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- grid.30064.310000 0001 2157 6568School of the Environment, Washington State University, Pullman, WA USA
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- grid.13992.300000 0004 0604 7563Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- grid.5690.a0000 0001 2151 2978Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.412205.00000 0000 8796 243XInstituto de Investigaciones sobre los Recursos Naturales, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán Mexico
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- grid.419500.90000 0004 0491 7318Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
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- grid.134563.60000 0001 2168 186XSchool of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
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- grid.266832.b0000 0001 2188 8502Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM USA
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Melandri G, Thorp KR, Broeckling C, Thompson AL, Hinze L, Pauli D. Assessing Drought and Heat Stress-Induced Changes in the Cotton Leaf Metabolome and Their Relationship With Hyperspectral Reflectance. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2021; 12:751868. [PMID: 34745185 PMCID: PMC8569624 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.751868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The study of phenotypes that reveal mechanisms of adaptation to drought and heat stress is crucial for the development of climate resilient crops in the face of climate uncertainty. The leaf metabolome effectively summarizes stress-driven perturbations of the plant physiological status and represents an intermediate phenotype that bridges the plant genome and phenome. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of water deficit and heat stress on the leaf metabolome of 22 genetically diverse accessions of upland cotton grown in the Arizona low desert over two consecutive years. Results revealed that membrane lipid remodeling was the main leaf mechanism of adaptation to drought. The magnitude of metabolic adaptations to drought, which had an impact on fiber traits, was found to be quantitatively and qualitatively associated with different stress severity levels during the two years of the field trial. Leaf-level hyperspectral reflectance data were also used to predict the leaf metabolite profiles of the cotton accessions. Multivariate statistical models using hyperspectral data accurately estimated (R 2 > 0.7 in ∼34% of the metabolites) and predicted (Q 2 > 0.5 in 15-25% of the metabolites) many leaf metabolites. Predicted values of metabolites could efficiently discriminate stressed and non-stressed samples and reveal which regions of the reflectance spectrum were the most informative for predictions. Combined together, these findings suggest that hyperspectral sensors can be used for the rapid, non-destructive estimation of leaf metabolites, which can summarize the plant physiological status.
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- Giovanni Melandri
- School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, AZ, United States
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- Analytical Resources Core: Bioanalysis and Omics Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
- Department of Agricultural Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Arid Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, AZ, United States
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- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Southern Plains Agricultural Research Center, College Station, TX, United States
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- School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
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Sinha R, Fritschi FB, Zandalinas SI, Mittler R. The impact of stress combination on reproductive processes in crops. PLANT SCIENCE : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PLANT BIOLOGY 2021; 311:111007. [PMID: 34482910 DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2021.111007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Historically, extended droughts combined with heat waves caused severe reductions in crop yields estimated at billions of dollars annually. Because global warming and climate change are driving an increase in the frequency and intensity of combined water-deficit and heat stress episodes, understanding how these episodes impact yield is critical for our efforts to develop climate change-resilient crops. Recent studies demonstrated that a combination of water-deficit and heat stress exacerbates the impacts of water-deficit or heat stress on reproductive processes of different cereals and legumes, directly impacting grain production. These studies identified several different mechanisms potentially underlying the effects of stress combination on anthers, pollen, and stigma development and function, as well as fertilization. Here we review some of these findings focusing on unbalanced reactive oxygen accumulation, altered sugar concentrations, and conflicting functions of different hormones, as contributing to the reduction in yield during a combination of water-deficit and heat stress. Future studies focused on the effects of water-deficit and heat stress combination on reproduction of different crops are likely to unravel additional mechanisms, as well as reveal novel ways to develop stress combination-resilient crops. These could mitigate some of the potentially devastating impacts of this stress combination on agriculture.
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- Ranjita Sinha
- Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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- Division of Plant Sciences, College of Agriculture Food and Natural Resources, and Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA; Department of Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, 1201 Rollins Street, Columbia, MO, 65201, USA.
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Levin SA, Anderies JM, Adger N, Barrett S, Bennett EM, Cardenas JC, Carpenter SR, Crépin AS, Ehrlich P, Fischer J, Folke C, Kautsky N, Kling C, Nyborg K, Polasky S, Scheffer M, Segerson K, Shogren J, van den Bergh J, Walker B, Weber EU, Wilen J. Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond. Ecosystems 2021; 25:697-711. [PMID: 34512142 PMCID: PMC8422834 DOI: 10.1007/s10021-021-00680-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The increasing frequency of extreme events, exogenous and endogenous, poses challenges for our societies. The current pandemic is a case in point; but "once-in-a-century" weather events are also becoming more common, leading to erosion, wildfire and even volcanic events that change ecosystems and disturbance regimes, threaten the sustainability of our life-support systems, and challenge the robustness and resilience of societies. Dealing with extremes will require new approaches and large-scale collective action. Preemptive measures can increase general resilience, a first line of protection, while more specific reactive responses are developed. Preemptive measures also can minimize the negative effects of events that cannot be avoided. In this paper, we first explore approaches to prevention, mitigation and adaptation, drawing inspiration from how evolutionary challenges have made biological systems robust and resilient, and from the general theory of complex adaptive systems. We argue further that proactive steps that go beyond will be necessary to reduce unacceptable consequences.
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- Simon A Levin
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, 106A Guyot Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA
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- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 USA
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4RJ UK
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- School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, New York 10025 USA.,The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York 10025 USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Québec, H9X 3V9 Canada
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- Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA
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- The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden.,Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 USA
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- Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University, 21335 Lueneburg, Germany
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- The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-10405 Stockholm, Sweden.,Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853 USA
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- Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Wageningen, 6708PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA
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- Department of Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071 USA
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- ICREA, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, University Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola), Spain.,VU University Amsterdam, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- CSIRO Land and Water, Australian Capital Territory Australia, Canberra, 2601 Australia
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- Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA.,School for Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA.,Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA
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- Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 USA
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Abstract
Forest fires of the western United States have advanced upslope over the past few decades, scorching territories previously too wet to burn. We document an upslope advancement of high-elevation fires of 7.6 m/y, a rate comparable to the elevational velocity of vapor pressure deficit of 8.9 m/y. Strong interannual links between aridity and high-elevation forest fires and reduced influence of fire exclusion policies in montane mesic forests imply such changes are a byproduct of climate warming. We estimate that increased aridity between 1984 and 2017 exposed an additional 81,500 km2 of western US montane forests to fires. These changes have significant implications for terrestrial carbon storage, snowpack, and water quantity and quality. Increases in burned area and large fire occurrence are widely documented over the western United States over the past half century. Here, we focus on the elevational distribution of forest fires in mountainous ecoregions of the western United States and show the largest increase rates in burned area above 2,500 m during 1984 to 2017. Furthermore, we show that high-elevation fires advanced upslope with a median cumulative change of 252 m (−107 to 656 m; 95% CI) in 34 y across studied ecoregions. We also document a strong interannual relationship between high-elevation fires and warm season vapor pressure deficit (VPD). The upslope advance of fires is consistent with observed warming reflected by a median upslope drift of VPD isolines of 295 m (59 to 704 m; 95% CI) during 1984 to 2017. These findings allow us to estimate that recent climate trends reduced the high-elevation flammability barrier and enabled fires in an additional 11% of western forests. Limited influences of fire management practices and longer fire-return intervals in these montane mesic systems suggest these changes are largely a byproduct of climate warming. Further weakening in the high-elevation flammability barrier with continued warming has the potential to transform montane fire regimes with numerous implications for ecosystems and watersheds.
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