Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

Future stress on water resources, and on temperate drylands in particular, remains uncertain. Here, the authors show that climate in the late twenty first century may reduce the extent of temperate drylands, dry deep soils, and create intra-regional and intercontinental differences in ecological dro...

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Main Authors: Daniel R. Schlaepfer, John B. Bradford, William K. Lauenroth, Seth M. Munson, Britta Tietjen, Sonia A. Hall, Scott D. Wilson, Michael C. Duniway, Gensuo Jia, David A. Pyke, Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva, Khishigbayar Jamiyansharav
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14196