Search Results - "Caylor, Kelly K."

Global synthesis of vegetation control on evapotranspiration partitioning by Wang, Lixin, Good, Stephen P., Caylor, Kelly K.

“…Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the global hydrological cycle. However, to what extent transpiration ratios (T/ET) are controlled by…”
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Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate by Guan, Kaiyu, Pan, Ming, Li, Haibin, Wolf, Adam, Wu, Jin, Medvigy, David, Caylor, Kelly K., Sheffield, Justin, Wood, Eric F., Malhi, Yadvinder, Liang, Miaoling, Kimball, John S., Saleska, Scott R., Berry, Joe, Joiner, Joanna, Lyapustin, Alexei I.

“…Droughts can cause dry-season productivity to decline in tropical forests. This decline occurs when precipitation is below 2,000 mm yr −1 , resulting in…”
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Explaining inter-annual variability of gross primary productivity from plant phenology and physiology by Zhou, Sha, Zhang, Yao, Caylor, Kelly K., Luo, Yiqi, Xiao, Xiangming, Ciais, Philippe, Huang, Yuefei, Wang, Guangqian

“…•Annual GPP variation is controlled by three indicators: GSstart, GPPmax, and GSend.•The statistical model explains 90% of annual GPP variability among 27 flux…”
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A generalized computer vision approach to mapping crop fields in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes by Debats, Stephanie R., Luo, Dee, Estes, Lyndon D., Fuchs, Thomas J., Caylor, Kelly K.

“…Smallholder farms dominate in many parts of the world, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. These systems are characterized by small, heterogeneous, and often…”
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Climatological determinants of woody cover in Africa by Good, Stephen P, Caylor, Kelly K

“…Determining the factors that influence the distribution of woody vegetation cover and resolving the sensitivity of woody vegetation cover to shifts in…”
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Comparison of ET partitioning and crop coefficients between partial plastic mulched and non-mulched maize fields by Gong, Daozhi, Mei, Xurong, Hao, Weiping, Wang, Hanbo, Caylor, Kelly K.

“…•Effects of plastic mulching on ET partitioning and crop coefficients were investigated with the eddy covariance method.•Compared with non mulching, plastic…”
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Partitioning evapotranspiration across gradients of woody plant cover: Assessment of a stable isotope technique by Wang, Lixin, Caylor, Kelly K., Villegas, Juan Camilo, Barron-Gafford, Greg A., Breshears, David D., Huxman, Travis E.

“…In water‐limited ecosystems, partitioning ecosystem‐scale evapotranspiration fluxes between plant transpiration and soil/canopy evaporation remains a…”
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Vegetation responses to climatic and geologic controls on water availability in southeastern Arizona by Sabathier, Romy, Singer, Michael Bliss, Stella, John C, Roberts, Dar A, Caylor, Kelly K

“…Abstract Vegetation distribution, composition and health in arid regions are largely dependent on water availability controlled by climate, local topography…”
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Uncertainties in the assessment of the isotopic composition of surface fluxes: A direct comparison of techniques using laser-based water vapor isotope analyzers by Good, Stephen P., Soderberg, Keir, Wang, Lixin, Caylor, Kelly K.

“…The isotopic composition of surface fluxes is a key environmental tracer currently estimated with a variety of methods, including: Keeling mixing models, the…”
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Drivers of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Riparian Forest NDVI Along a Hydroclimatic Gradient by Lochin, Pierre, Piégay, Hervé, Stella, John C., Caylor, Kelly K., Vaudor, Lise, Bliss Singer, Michael

“…ABSTRACT In the context of rising global temperatures and their impact on weather patterns and water cycles, understanding the relationship between vegetation…”
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Soil organic C and total N pools in the Kalahari: potential impacts of climate change on C sequestration in savannas by Dintwe, Kebonyethata, Okin, Gregory S, D’Odorico, Paolo, Hrast, Tanja, Mladenov, Natalie, Handorean, Alina, Bhattachan, Abinash, Caylor, Kelly. K

“…AIMS: The impacts of climate change on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) fluxes are not fully understood, especially in savanna ecosystems. This study aimed to…”
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Direct quantification of leaf transpiration isotopic composition by Wang, Lixin, Good, Stephen P., Caylor, Kelly K., Cernusak, Lucas A.

“…► Leaf transpiration isotopic compositions ( δ T ) are rarely directly quantified. ► A new method is developed for direct and continuous estimate of δ T . ►…”
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Household-level heterogeneity of water resources within common-pool resource systems by McCord, Paul, Dell'Angelo, Jampel, Gower, Drew, Caylor, Kelly K., Evans, Tom

“…Prior work has demonstrated the ability of common property systems to sustain institutional arrangements governing natural resources over long periods of time…”
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Deriving Vegetation Phenological Time and Trajectory Information Over Africa Using SEVIRI Daily LAI by Kaiyu Guan, Medvigy, David, Wood, Eric F., Caylor, Kelly K., Shi Li, Su-Jong Jeong

“…Vegetation phenology is closely connected to the terrestrial carbon budget, and interacts with the atmosphere through surface water and energy exchange. A…”
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The effect of warming on grassland evapotranspiration partitioning using laser-based isotope monitoring techniques by Wang, Lixin, Niu, Shuli, Good, Stephen P., Soderberg, Keir, McCabe, Matthew F., Sherry, Rebecca A., Luo, Yiqi, Zhou, Xuhui, Xia, Jianyang, Caylor, Kelly K.

“…The proportion of transpiration (T) in total evapotranspiration (ET) is an important parameter that provides insight into the degree of biological influence on…”
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Environmental heterogeneity and commodity sharing in smallholder agroecosystems by Giroux, Stacey A, McCord, Paul, Lopus, Sara, Gower, Drew, Dell'Angelo, Jampel, Dickinson, Stephanie, Chen, Xiwei, Caylor, Kelly K, Evans, Tom P

“…Smallholder farmers undertake a number of strategies to cope with climate shocks in a community. The sharing of resources across households constitutes one…”
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Simulated sensitivity of African terrestrial ecosystem photosynthesis to rainfall frequency, intensity, and rainy season length by Guan, Kaiyu, Good, Stephen P, Caylor, Kelly K, Medvigy, David, Pan, Ming, Wood, Eric F, Sato, Hisashi, Biasutti, Michela, Chen, Min, Ahlström, Anders, Xu, Xiangtao

“…There is growing evidence of ongoing changes in the statistics of intra-seasonal rainfall variability over large parts of the world. Changes in annual total…”
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Community Water Governance on Mount Kenya: An Assessment Based on Ostrom’s Design Principles of Natural Resource Management by Dell’Angelo, Jampel, McCord, Paul F, Gower, Drew, Carpenter, Stefan, Caylor, Kelly K, Evans, Tom P

“…Kenyan river basin governance underwent a pioneering reform in the Water Act of 2002, which established new community water-management institutions. This…”
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Metabolic principles of river basin organization by Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio, Caylor, Kelly K, Rinaldo, Andrea

“…The metabolism of a river basin is defined as the set of processes through which the basin maintains its structure and responds to its environment. Green (or…”
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Using atmospheric trajectories to model the isotopic composition of rainfall in central Kenya by Soderberg, Keir, Good, Stephen P, O'Connor, Molly, Wang, Lixin, Ryan, Kathleen, Caylor, Kelly K

“…The isotopic composition of rainfall (δ 2 H and δ 18 O) is an important tracer in studies of the ecohydrology, plant physiology, climate and biogeochemistry of…”
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