New Publication : Energy availability and leaf area dominate control of ecosystem evapotranspiration in the Southeastern U.S.
Contents
We present a multi-ecosystem regional synthesis study that indicates that water availability may not be the main limiting factor of ET in the humid southeastern U.S. region. Our findings support that these ecosystems are generally “energy limited”, and as a result monthly and annual ET in the Southeast can be reliably estimated by atmospheric demand alone without, considering precipitation.
Thank you to Dr. Maricar Aguilos and the rest of the team!
Reference
- Maricar Aguilos, Ge Sun, Ning Liu, Yulong Zhang, Gregory Starr, Andrew Christopher Oishi, Thomas L O'Halloran, Jeremy Forsythe, Jingfeng Wang, Modi Zhu, Devendra Amatya, Benju Baniya, Steve McNulty, Asko Noormets, John King. Energy availability and leaf area dominate control of ecosystem evapotranspiration in the southeastern U.S., Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 349, 2024,109960, ISSN 0168-1923,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.109960.