“Plants carry traces of past weather. Reading them may help us navigate a hotter, drier world.” Wenli Zhao As global warming intensifies drought frequency, understanding how ecosystems store and deplete water is critical for anticipating vegetation stress. This blog walks us through a novel groundbreaking study published on EGU journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS). Led b ...[Read More]
How long does an ecosystem remember the weather?
The hills around Jena, Germany, home to the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, where this study began.
Photo credit: Wenli Zhao.