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La resiliencia del ecosistema a pesar de las condiciones hidroclimáticas alteradas a gran escala
Guillermo E Ponce Campos1, M Susan Moran, Alfredo Huete
1USDA ARS Southwest Watershed Research, Tucson, Arizona 85719, USA. geponce@gmail.com
Nature
|January 22, 2013
Resumen
Los ecosistemas muestran resiliencia a la sequía, manteniendo la eficiencia del uso del agua (WUE) incluso en condiciones más secas. Esta capacidad a escala de biomas para tolerar bajas precipitaciones es clave para predecir los impactos futuros del cambio climático.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Ecología Ecología Ecología.
- Ciencias del clima Ciencias del clima Ciencias del clima
- Biogeoquímica La biogeoquímica es la bioquímica.
Sus antecedentes:
- El cambio climático está aumentando la frecuencia y la duración de las sequías, lo que lleva a un calentamiento significativo y condiciones hidroclimáticas alteradas a nivel mundial.
- Las recientes sequías cálidas a gran escala han afectado los ecosistemas terrestres, el equilibrio de carbono y la seguridad alimentaria en todos los continentes.
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