Tree water uptake patterns across the globe

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Tree water uptake patterns across the globe

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Soil warming alters tree water use and canopy stomatal conductance in a mixed subtropical forest

Investigation of microbial community dynamics in soil during variable hydrological forcing

Twenty years of irrigation acclimation is driven by denser canopies and not by plasticity in twig- and needle-level hydraulics in a Pinus sylvestris forest

From roots to canopy: Unraveling the influence of species diversity on tree water relations under warmer and drier climates

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flow and Hydrochemistry in Drainage Networks

X-ray chemical imaging for assessing redox microsites within soils and sediments

Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought

Treeline displacement may affect lake dissolved organic matter processing at high latitudes and altitudes

Winter post-droughts amplify extreme nitrate concentrations in German rivers

Invasive palms have more efficient and prolonged CO2 assimilation compared to native sub-Mediterranean vegetation

The cost of adaptability: resource availability constrains functional stability under pulsed disturbances

Interactions between beech and oak seedlings can modify the effects of hotter droughts and the onset of hydraulic failure

Linking Soil Structure, Hydraulic Properties, and Organic Carbon Dynamics: A Holistic Framework to Study the Impact of Climate Change and Land Management

Global Mapping of Potential and Climatic Plant‐Available Soil Water

Consider the Anoxic Microsite: Acknowledging and Appreciating Spatiotemporal Redox Heterogeneity in Soils and Sediments

Chronic warming and dry soils limit carbon uptake and growth despite a longer growing season in beech and oak

Sunshine and a pinch of tropical soils: A natural, low-cost photo-Fenton variation for safer water, assisted by H2O2 or percabonate

Addressing the challenges of homogeneity, quality control and waste handling in soil bio-cementation: A large-scale experiment

Atlas Narratives of Anthropogenic Transformations across the Vietnamese Mekong Delta's Urban-Rural Territories: Water Ecosystems as Subject for the Social Ecological Transition

Spatially Explicit Linkages Between Redox Potential Cycles and Soil Moisture Fluctuations