The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources

Joshua B. Fisher; Forrest Melton; Elizabeth Middleton; Christopher Hain; Martha Anderson; Richard Allen; Matthew F. McCabe; Simon Hook; Dennis Baldocchi; Philip A. Townsend; Ayse Kilic; Kevin Tu; Diego D. Miralles; Johan Perret; Jean Pierre Lagouarde; Duane Waliser; Adam J. Purdy; Andrew French; David Schimel; James S. Famiglietti; Graeme Stephens; Eric F. Wood

doi:10.1002/2016WR020175

The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources

Joshua B. Fisher, Forrest Melton, Elizabeth Middleton, Christopher Hain, Martha Anderson, Richard Allen, Matthew F. McCabe, Simon Hook, Dennis Baldocchi, Philip A. Townsend, Ayse Kilic, Kevin Tu, Diego D. Miralles, Johan Perret, Jean Pierre Lagouarde, Duane Waliser, Adam J. Purdy, Andrew French, David Schimel, James S. FamigliettiGraeme Stephens, Eric F. Wood

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The fate of the terrestrial biosphere is highly uncertain given recent and projected changes in climate. This is especially acute for impacts associated with changes in drought frequency and intensity on the distribution and timing of water availability. The development of effective adaptation strategies for these emerging threats to food and water security are compromised by limitations in our understanding of how natural and managed ecosystems are responding to changing hydrological and climatological regimes. This information gap is exacerbated by insufficient monitoring capabilities from local to global scales. Here, we describe how evapotranspiration (ET) represents the key variable in linking ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources, and highlight both the outstanding science and applications questions and the actions, especially from a space-based perspective, necessary to advance them.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2618-2626
Number of pages	9
Journal	Water Resources Research
Volume	53
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020175
State	Published - Apr 1 2017

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Water Science and Technology

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agriculture
climate
ecosystem
evapotranspiration
global
satellite
water resources

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Fisher, J. B., Melton, F., Middleton, E., Hain, C., Anderson, M., Allen, R., McCabe, M. F., Hook, S., Baldocchi, D., Townsend, P. A., Kilic, A., Tu, K., Miralles, D. D., Perret, J., Lagouarde, J. P., Waliser, D., Purdy, A. J., French, A., Schimel, D., ... Wood, E. F. (2017). The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources. Water Resources Research, 53(4), 2618-2626. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020175

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