Wind Emerges as an Overlooked Regulator of How Efficiently Ecosystems Use Water
A global analysis of flux-tower observations and Earth system models shows that rising wind speed lowers ecosystem water use efficiency ...
Tag: water-use efficiency
Hydrogel Granules Could Slash Water Use for Growing Food in Space
Radishes grown in polyacrylamide hydrogel granules matched the yields of plants raised in the clay substrate used on the International ...
Norway spruce falters while Scots pine tightens water use as drought grips southern Finland
Tree-ring isotopes and national forest inventory data reveal that Norway spruce suffered sharp growth declines after 2016 with only weak ...
AI, Drones and Sensors Are Rewriting How Farms Drink
A major review shows how AI, sensors, satellite and drone imaging, digital twins and field robots are converging to cut ...
One Term, Fourteen Metrics: Why Water Use Efficiency Means Different Things to Different Scientists
A new review catalogues fourteen conflicting definitions of water use efficiency and proposes a harmonized framework to make the widely ...
Manure Beats Commercial Organic Fertilizer in Drought-Hit Wheat Fields
A four-year field trial on China's Loess Plateau shows that replacing a quarter of chemical nitrogen with pig manure outperforms ...
Fine-Tuned Drip Fertigation Recipe Boosts Winter Wheat Yields While Healing the Soil
A three-year field study in the North China Plain identifies optimal irrigation and nitrogen ranges that simultaneously raise grain yield, ...
Grasslands on a Knife Edge: Leaf Water Trade-Offs Govern Steppe Ecosystems
A large-scale survey of 306 sites on the Mongolian Plateau shows that a community-wide trade-off between leaf hydraulic efficiency and ...
Vertical Farming Cannot Beat the Sun, but Physics Is Not the Whole Story
A new commentary argues that vertical farming's energy inefficiency is real but that system-level factors such as urban integration, circular ...
Mossy Wetlands Defy Standard Methods for Splitting Water Losses
A comparison of ten evapotranspiration partitioning methods across four Canadian moss-covered wetlands finds no consistent winner and exposes deep uncertainty ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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