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Associations between urban form and urban multifunctionality: a comparative study
Abstract Cities are complex and dynamic systems that integrate social, ecological, and infrastructure domains. This study investigates and quantifies how urban forms are associated with multiple urban functions across these domains, and how these associations combine into positive or negative synergies and trade-offs through multifunctional assessment rather than single-function analyses.
Thank You to Our 2025 Reviewers
G., Castelletti, A., Fatichi, S., Islam, S., Jha, M. K., Kollet, S., et al. (2026). Thank you to our 2025 reviewers. Water Resources Research, 62, e2026WR044159. Destouni, https://doi.org/10.1029/2026WR044159 On behalf of the journal, AGU, and the broader scientific community, the editors of Water Resources Research (WRR) sincerely thank all those who reviewed manuscripts for the journal in 2025.
Air and soil warming have different effects on soil organic carbon storage
Abstract Warming impacts both net primary production (NPP) and soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition, and consequently, SOC storage. However, the role of warming in regulating SOC storage remains debated. Here, we leverage literature data of warming experiments and a mechanistic model to explore SOC responses to warming by partitioning the effects of air and soil warming.
Assessing Spatial Patterns of Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics in Catchments of Complex Topography
1 Introduction Topographic features are key drivers of local-scale variations in microclimatic, ecohydrological, and biogeochemical conditions across a landscape (Amatulli et al., 2018; Florinsky, 2016).
Global variation in vegetation carbon use efficiency inferred from eddy covariance observations - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Abstract Terrestrial ecosystems have been serving as a strong carbon sink that offsets one-quarter of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Carbon use efficiency (CUE), the percentage of photosynthesized carbon that is available for biomass production and other secondary carbon products, is one factor determining the carbon sink size.
Thin and ephemeral snow shapes melt and runoff dynamics in the Peruvian Andes - Communications Earth & Environment
Abstract The snow and glaciers of the Peruvian Andes provide vital water supplies in a region facing water scarcity and substantial glacier change. However, there remains a lack of understanding of snow processes and quantification of the contribution of melt to runoff. Here we apply a distributed glacio-hydrological model over the Rio Santa basin to disentangle the role of the cryosphere in the Andean water cycle.
Controls of Ecohydrological Grassland Dynamics in Agrivoltaic Systems
1 Introduction A continuously growing population and improving living standards globally are expected to simultaneously increase energy and food demands (Ahmad & Zhang, 2020; Van Dijk et al., 2021; Van Ruijven et al., 2019). Meeting this demand without substantially increasing CO 2 ${\text{CO}}_{2}$ emissions from fossil fuel combustion and land clearing for agricultural expansion is a major challenge for sustainable growth (e.g. Chu & Majumdar, 2012; Pretty et al., 2018).
Economic valuation of temperature-related mortality attributed to urban heat islands in European cities - Nature Communications
Abstract As the climate warms, increasing heat-related health risks are expected, and can be exacerbated by the urban heat island (UHI) effect. UHIs can also offer protection against cold weather, but a clear quantification of their impacts on human health across diverse cities and seasons is still being explored. Here we provide a 500 m resolution assessment of mortality risks associated with UHIs for 85 European cities in 2015-2017.
Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library
1 INTRODUCTION Terrestrial vegetation currently sequesters about one third of anthropogenic CO2 emissions (Friedlingstein et al., 2022), offering an important contribution to achieving carbon reduction targets, and tackling climate change (Griscom et al., 2017).
Aerodynamic effects cause higher forest evapotranspiration and water yield reductions after wildfires in tall forests
1 INTRODUCTION Forests provide vital ecosystem services (Costanza et al., 1997) and regulate the exchange of water, carbon, and energy between the land surface and the atmosphere.
Evapotranspiration on a greening Earth - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Abstract Evapotranspiration (ET) — the distribution and partitioning of which is strongly mediated by vegetation — is central to the water, energy and carbon cycles. In this Review, we examine the spatiotemporal patterns of ET changes and their linkages with vegetation. A multi-decadal and accelerating rise in global ET is apparent since the 1980s.
Glacier contributions to river discharge during the current Chilean megadrought
Research Article This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1029/2022EF002852 Abstract The current Chilean megadrought has led to acute water shortages in central Chile since 2010.
Visualizing electron localization of WS2/WSe2 moiré superlattices in momentum space
Conrad H. Stansbury https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-3135 , M. Iqbal Bakti Utama https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4454-8348, Claudia G. Fatuzzo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1384-4136, Emma C.
Molecular mechanism of SbmA, a promiscuous transporter exploited by antimicrobial peptides
Dmitry Ghilarov https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9325-3207, Satomi Inaba-Inoue https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6939-1324, Piotr Stepien https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4859-6443, Feng Qu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7168-9018, Elizabeth Michalczyk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9276-7764, Zuzanna Pakosz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2288-8616, Norimichi Nomura, … Show All … , Satoshi Ogasawara, Graham Charles Walker, Sylvie Rebuffat https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5257-5039, So Iwata...
Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality
Raphaël A. Wittwer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2129-7195, S. Franz Bender https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0895-2228, Kyle Hartman, Sofia Hydbom, Ruy A. A. Lima https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0229-401X, Viviana Loaiza, Thomas Nemecek https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8249-1170, … Show All … , Fritz Oehl https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1492-7985, Pål Axel Olsson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4433-5799, Owen Petchey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7724-1633, Ulrich E.
"An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in " by Simone Fatichi, Enrique R. Vivoni et al.
Home > Faculty Publications > 4276 Authors Simone Fatichi, Institute of Environmental Engineering Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State University Fred L. Ogden, University of Wyoming Valeriy Y. Ivanov, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Benjamin Mirus, Geologic Hazards Science Center David Gochis, National Center for Atmospheric Research Charles W. Downer, Engineer Research and Development Center Matteo Camporese, University of Padua Jason H.
Seasonal hysteresis of surface urban heat islands
Researchers report the presence of ribose and other sugars in meteorites, and the arrival of such sugars on Earth may have given rise to early biopolymers.
Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models
Abstract Most soil hydraulic information used in Earth System Models (ESMs) is derived from pedo-transfer functions that use easy-to-measure soil attributes to estimate hydraulic parameters. This parameterization relies heavily on soil texture, but overlooks the critical role of soil structure originated by soil biophysical activity. Soil structure omission is pervasive also in sampling and measurement methods used to train pedotransfer functions.
Linking plant functional trait plasticity and the large increase in forest water use efficiency
Elevated atmospheric CO concentrations are expected to enhance photosynthesis and reduce stomatal conductance, thus increasing plant water use efficiency. A recent study based on eddy covariance flux observations from Northern Hemisphere forests showed a large increase in inherent water use efficiency (IWUE). Here, we used an updated version of the same dataset and robust uncertainty quantification to revisit these contemporary IWUE trends.
Constrained variability of modeled T:ET ratio across biomes
A large variability (35-90%) in the ratio of transpiration to total evapotranspiration (referred here as T:ET) across biomes or even at the global scale has been documented by a number of studies carried out with different methodologies. Previous empirical results also suggest that T:ET does not co-vary with mean precipitation and has a positive dependence on Leaf Area Index (LAI).
An advanced stochastic weather generator for simulating 2-D high-resolution climate variables
A new stochastic weather generator, Advanced WEather GENerator for a 2-dimensional grid (AWE-GEN-2d) is presented. The model combines physical and stochastic approaches to simulate key meteorological variables at high spatial and temporal resolution: 2 km × 2 km and 5 min for precipitation and cloud cover and 100 m x 100 m and 1 h for near-surface air temperature, solar radiation, vapor pressure, atmospheric pressure and near-surface wind.
Soil Erosion Assessment - Mind the Gap
Accurate assessment of erosion rates remains an elusive problem because soil loss is strongly non-unique with respect to the main drivers. In addressing the mechanistic causes of erosion responses, we discriminate between macro-scale effects of external factors - long studied and referred to as ‘geomorphic external variability’, and micro-scale effects, introduced as ‘geomorphic internal variability’.
An overview of current applications, challenges, and future trends in distributed process-based models in hydrology
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Process-based hydrological models have a long history dating back to the 1960s. Criticized by some as over-parameterized, overly complex, and difficult to use, a more nuanced view is that these tools are necessary in many situations and, in a certain class of problems, they are the most appropriate type of hydrological model. This is especially the case in situations where knowledge of flow paths or distributed state variables and/or preservation of physical constraints is important.
By Benjamin B. Mirus, Norm Jones, Richard Niswonger, Simone Fatichi, Enrique R. Vivoni, Fred L Odgen, Valeriy Y Ivanov, David Gochis, Charles W Downer, Matteo Camporese, Jason H Davison, Brian A. Ebel, Jongho Kim, Giuseppe Mascaro, Pedro Restrepo, Riccardo Rigon, Chaopeng Shen, Mauro Sulis, David Tarboton
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