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Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

20041,221 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Travis E. Huxman · University of Arizona

Melinda D. Smith · Yale University

Alan K. Knapp · Colorado State University

M. Rebecca Shaw · Carnegie Institution for Science

Michael E. Loik · University of California, Santa Cruz

Stanley D. Smith · University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Topics & Keywords

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Land Use and Ecosystem Services

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Climate action

Publication Details

Published in: Nature

Volume 429, Issue 6992, pp. 651-654

DOI: 10.1038/nature02561

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 19.30

Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency | Researchclopedia

David T. Tissue · Texas Tech University

John C. Zak · Texas Tech University

Jake F. Weltzin · University of Tennessee at Knoxville

William T. Pockman · University of New Mexico

Osvaldo E. Sala · Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology Research Institute

Brent M. Haddad · University of California, Santa Cruz

John Harte · University of California, Berkeley

George W. Koch · Northern Arizona University

Susan Schwinning · Columbia University

Eric E. Small · University of Colorado Boulder

David G. Williams · University of Wyoming