MBV acknowledges support from Juan de la Cierva Formacion fellowship program (FJCI-2018-036520-I) Spanish Ministry of Science. B.V. and R.S have been funded by PR01018-EC-H2020-FETOpen MADONNA project. R.S. also counted with the Santa Fe Institute, Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del Departament d’Economia Coneixement Generalitat Catalunya. FTM European Research Council grant agreement no 6...

Quillaja saponaria is a sclerophyllus evergreen tree species distributed from 30° to 38° S in Central Chile. In this wide distribution it expected that the exhibits phenotypic plasticity morphology of leaves associated climate variation; however, information on topic still scarce. We studied leaf variation and its relationship with temperature, precipitation, aridity 85 stands Q. throughout nat...

Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) is of great importance to control the land-atmosphere exchange water and CO2. Here we use in situ observations assess performance monthly VPD calculated from state-of-the-art data sets including CRU, ERA5, Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research Applications, Version 2 (MERRA2). We investigate trends at global scale different climatic zones 1981–2020 future (...

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between drainage density and climate, as represented by climate aridity index, understand area. A total 121 sites with low human impact, a wide range index 0.3 (humid)–10.4 (arid), were selected based on availability light detection ranging (LiDAR) data, producing digital elevation model (DEM) spatial resolution 1 m. curvature-based meth...

Abstract To understand how climate change affects crop yields, we need to identify the climatic indices that best predict yields. Grain yields are most often predicted using precipitation and temperature in statistical models, assuming linear dependences. However, soil water availability is more influential for plant growth than temperature, there ecophysiological evidence of intermediate yield...