Rainfall drives variation in rates of change in intrinsic water use efficiency of tropical forests
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Mark A. Adams; Thomas N. Buckley; Tarryn L. Turnbull
- Source
- Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019)
- Subject
- Science
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2041-1723
67018696
How the water use efficiency of trees changes with atmospheric CO2 variations has mostly been studied on short time scales. Here, a newly compiled data set covering 1915 to 1995 shows how rates of change in water use efficiency vary with location and rainfall over the global tropics on a decadal scale.