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SUBMITTER: Vicente-Serrano SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3538253 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vicente-Serrano Sergio M SM Gouveia Célia C Camarero Jesús Julio JJ Beguería Santiago S Trigo Ricardo R López-Moreno Juan I JI Azorín-Molina César C Pasho Edmond E Lorenzo-Lacruz Jorge J Revuelto Jesús J Morán-Tejeda Enrique E Sanchez-Lorenzo Arturo A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20121217 1
We evaluated the response of the Earth land biomes to drought by correlating a drought index with three global indicators of vegetation activity and growth: vegetation indices from satellite imagery, tree-ring growth series, and Aboveground Net Primary Production (ANPP) records. Arid and humid biomes are both affected by drought, and we suggest that the persistence of the water deficit (i.e., the drought time-scale) could be playing a key role in determining the sensitivity of land biomes to dro ...[more]