Search Results - "Yakir, Dan"
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Contribution of Semi-Arid Forests to the Climate System
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (22-01-2010)“…Forests both take up CO₂ and enhance absorption of solar radiation, with contrasting effects on global temperature. Based on a 9-year study in the forests' dry…”
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Large-scale semi-arid afforestation can enhance precipitation and carbon sequestration potential
Published in Scientific reports (17-01-2018)“…Afforestation is an important approach to mitigate global warming. Its complex interactions with the climate system, however, makes it controversial…”
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Dynamics of evapotranspiration partitioning in a semi-arid forest as affected by temporal rainfall patterns
Published in Agricultural and forest meteorology (15-05-2012)“…► We examined the temporal patterns of ET partitioning in a semi-arid forest. ► Tree transpiration was associated with the cumulative effect of rain events…”
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Resilience to seasonal heat wave episodes in a Mediterranean pine forest
Published in The New phytologist (01-04-2016)“…Short‐term, intense heat waves (hamsins) are common in the eastern Mediterranean region and provide an opportunity to study the resilience of forests to such…”
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Assessing canopy performance using carbonyl sulfide measurements
Published in Global change biology (01-08-2018)“…Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is a tracer of ecosystem photosynthesis that can advance carbon cycle research from leaf to global scales; however, a range of newly…”
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Variation of net primary productivity and its drivers in China’s forests during 2000–2018
Published in Forest ecosystems (23-03-2020)“…Background Net primary productivity (NPP) in forests plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. However, it is not well known about the increase rate…”
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Assessing climatic benefits from forestation potential in semi-arid lands
Published in Environmental research letters (01-10-2021)“…Forestation actions are a major tool for both climate-change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. We address two weaknesses in this approach: the little…”
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Association between sap flow‐derived and eddy covariance‐derived measurements of forest canopy CO2 uptake
Published in The New phytologist (2016)“…The carbon sink intensity of the biosphere depends on the balance between gross primary productivity (GPP) of forest canopies and ecosystem respiration. GPP,…”
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Transpiration and annual water balance of Aleppo pine in a semiarid region: Implications for forest management
Published in Forest ecology and management (15-06-2013)“…•We studied Aleppo pine transpiration (T) in a dryland forest during three seasons.•Soil water content (SWC) was the primary determinant of T when…”
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Ecophysiological adjustments of a pine forest to enhance early spring activity in hot and dry climate
Published in Environmental research letters (01-11-2020)“…Climate change can impose large offsets between the seasonal cycle of photosynthesis and that in solar radiation and temperature which drive it…”
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Bark Transpiration Rates Can Reach Needle Transpiration Rates Under Dry Conditions in a Semi-arid Forest
Published in Frontiers in plant science (20-12-2021)“…Drought can cause tree mortality through hydraulic failure and carbon starvation. To prevent excess water loss, plants typically close their stomata before…”
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Towards an advanced assessment of the hydrological vulnerability of forests to climate change-induced drought
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Disentangling Soil, Shade, and Tree Canopy Contributions to Mixed Satellite Vegetation Indices in a Sparse Dry Forest
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-08-2022)“…Remote sensing (RS) for vegetation monitoring can involve mixed pixels with contributions from vegetation and background surfaces, causing biases in signals…”
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Reviews and syntheses: Carbonyl sulfide as a multi-scale tracer for carbon and water cycles
Published in Biogeosciences (18-06-2018)“…For the past decade, observations of carbonyl sulfide (OCS or COS) have been investigated as a proxy for carbon uptake by plants. OCS is destroyed by enzymes…”
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Large variations in afforestation-related climate cooling and warming effects across short distances
Published in Communications earth & environment (01-12-2023)“…Abstract Climate-related benefits of afforestation depend on the balance of the often-contrasting effects of biogeochemical (carbon sequestration) and…”
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Genomic dissection of drought resistance in durum wheat × wild emmer wheat recombinant inbreed line population
Published in Plant, cell and environment (01-07-2009)“…ABSTRACT Drought is the major factor limiting wheat productivity worldwide. The gene pool of wild emmer wheat, Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides, harbours a…”
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Global critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress
Published in Nature communications (06-06-2024)“…During extensive periods without rain, known as dry-downs, decreasing soil moisture (SM) induces plant water stress at the point when it limits…”
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Relationships between carbonyl sulfide (COS) and CO₂ during leaf gas exchange
Published in The New phytologist (01-06-2010)“…Carbonyl sulfide (COS) exchange in C₃ leaves is linked to that of CO₂, providing a basis for the use of COS as a powerful tracer of gross CO₂ fluxes between…”
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Effects of Carbonyl Sulfide and Carbonic Anhydrase on Stomatal Conductance
Published in Plant physiology (Bethesda) (01-01-2012)“…The potential use of carbonyl sulfide (COS) as tracer of CO₂ flux into the land biosphere stimulated research on COS interactions with leaves during gas…”
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Ecohydrology of a semi-arid forest: partitioning among water balance components and its implications for predicted precipitation changes
Published in Ecohydrology (01-06-2010)“…The distribution of precipitation inputs into different hydrological components of water‐limited forest ecosystems determines water availability to trees and…”
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