Do land surface models need to include differential plant species responses to drought? Examining model predictions across a mesic-xeric gradient in Europe

De Kauwe, M. G.; Zhou, S.-X.; Medlyn, B. E.; Pitman, A. J.; Wang, Y.-P.; Duursma, R. A.; Prentice, I. C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7503-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 24

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7503-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7503-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 24

Research article

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21 Dec 2015

Research article |

| 21 Dec 2015

Do land surface models need to include differential plant species responses to drought? Examining model predictions across a mesic-xeric gradient in Europe

M. G. De Kauwe, S.-X. Zhou, B. E. Medlyn, A. J. Pitman, Y.-P. Wang, R. A. Duursma, and I. C. Prentice

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RC C5470: 'Review of De Kauwe et al', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Sep 2015
- AC C7643: 'Response to reviewer 1', Martin De Kauwe, 12 Nov 2015
RC C6631: 'bg-2015-357 review', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Oct 2015
- AC C7644: 'Response to reviewer 2', Martin De Kauwe, 12 Nov 2015

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Nov 2015) by Paul Stoy

AR by Martin De Kauwe on behalf of the Authors (18 Nov 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (18 Nov 2015) by Paul Stoy

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 Dec 2015)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (04 Dec 2015) by Paul Stoy

AR by Martin De Kauwe on behalf of the Authors (07 Dec 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (11 Dec 2015) by Paul Stoy

AR by Martin De Kauwe on behalf of the Authors (12 Dec 2015)

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Future climate change has the potential to increase drought in many regions of the globe. Recent data syntheses show that drought sensitivity varies considerably among plants from different climate zones, but state-of-the-art models currently assume the same drought sensitivity for all vegetation. Our results indicate that models will over-estimate drought impacts in drier climates unless different sensitivity of vegetation to drought is taken into account.