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DOI 10.1029/2024JG008605
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Titel (primär) Atmospheric vapor pressure deficit outweighs soil moisture deficit in controlling global ecosystem water use efficiency
Autor Li, C.; Zhang, D.; Zhang, S.; Wen, Y.; Wang, W.; Chen, Y.; Peng, J. ORCID logo
Quelle Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
Department RS
Band/Volume 130
Heft 3
Seite von e2024JG008605
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Daten-/Softwarelinks https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.913496
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11238533
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Keywords vapor pressure deficit; soil moisture; water use efficiency; water stress; split-box decoupling
Abstract High vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and low soil moisture (SM) lead to soil and atmospheric droughts, which can stress carbon-water coupling in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the strong collinearity between VPD and SM, particularly under certain climatic conditions, makes it challenging to disentangle their independent contributions to carbon and water dynamics in land-atmosphere interactions. This study aimed to clarify the long-term independent response of global vegetation carbon-water coupling, based on ecosystem water-use efficiency (WUEE) and plant canopy water-use efficiency (WUEEt), to decoupled VPD and SM from 1982 to 2100. WUEE is defined as the ratio of ecosystem gross primary productivity to evapotranspiration, while WUEEt is defined as the ratio of ecosystem gross primary productivity to vegetation transpiration. The results indicate that from 1982 to 2018, both before and after the decoupling of VPD and SM, over 64% of global vegetation zones experienced stronger atmospheric moisture stress from VPD than soil drought stress from SM, consistently impacting WUEE and WUEEt. The influence of VPD on WUEE and WUEEt gradually declined, while the influence of SM presented a tendency to increase. The small difference in the responses of WUEE and WUEEt to VPD and SM is attributed to the strong collinearity between WUEE and WUEEt. The effects of VPD and SM on WUEE and WUEEt varied across vegetation cover gradients, biomes, and climatic zones. As atmospheric and soil drought intensifies in the coming decades, the effects of VPD on WUEE and WUEEt stress are stronger than those of SM across all four socio-economic shared pathway (SSP) scenarios. In the high SSP scenarios (SSP5-8.5 for WUEE and SSP3-7.0 for WUEEt), the dominant influence of VPD is expected to expand.
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Li, C., Zhang, D., Zhang, S., Wen, Y., Wang, W., Chen, Y., Peng, J. (2025):
Atmospheric vapor pressure deficit outweighs soil moisture deficit in controlling global ecosystem water use efficiency
J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosci. 130 (3), e2024JG008605 10.1029/2024JG008605