Paper Review: Liu (2020). More dominant SM dryness effect than VPD. ncomm.
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14 October, 2020 (Liu, ncomm, dominant SM effect) Liu, L., Gudmundsson, L., Hauser, M. et al. Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally. Nat Commun 11, 4892 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18631-1
Overview Soil moisture (SM) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) have been regarded as the major driver of dryness stress on the ecosystem productivity. However, it has been difficult to separate each effect due to the strong coupling between SM and VPD, which resulted in a number of model representation for the dryness stress.