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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1015-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-1015-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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15 Oct 2021
Research article | Highlight paper |
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| 15 Oct 2021
Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019
Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
René Orth
Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Markus Reichstein
Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Philippe Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Nicolas Viovy
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Sönke Zaehle
Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Peter Anthoni
KIT, Atmospheric Environmental Research, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Almut Arneth
KIT, Atmospheric Environmental Research, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Pierre Gentine
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, NY 10027, USA
Earth Institute and Data Science Institute, Columbia University, NY 10027, USA
Emilie Joetzjer
CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France
Sebastian Lienert
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Tammas Loughran
Ludwig-Maximilian University, Geography Dept., Luisenstr. 37, 80333 Munich, Germany
Patrick C. McGuire
Department of Meteorology, Department of Geography Environmental Science, and National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6BB, UK
Sungmin O
Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany
Julia Pongratz
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Stephen Sitch
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK
Data sets
Supplementary Data Bastos et al. ESD (2021) Ana Bastos, Rene Orth, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, Anthoni Peter, Almut Arneth, Pierre Gentine, Emilie Joetzjer, Sebastian Lienert, Tammas Loughran, Patrick McGuire, Sungmin O, Julia Pongratz, and Stephen Sitch https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16645123.v4
SupplementaryData_Bastosetal_2021.zip Ana Bastos, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, Sebastian Lienert, Anthoni Peter, Almut Arneth, et al. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16645123.v1
Short summary
Temperate biomes in Europe are not prone to recurrent dry and hot conditions in summer. However, these conditions may become more frequent in the coming decades. Because stress conditions can leave legacies for many years, this may result in reduced ecosystem resilience under recurrent stress. We assess vegetation vulnerability to the hot and dry summers in 2018 and 2019 in Europe and find the important role of inter-annual legacy effects from 2018 in modulating the impacts of the 2019 event.
Temperate biomes in Europe are not prone to recurrent dry and hot conditions in summer. However,...
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