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Integrating ecosystem water demands into drought monitoring and assessment under climate change

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Research on the ecological impacts of drought has predominantly focused on the scarcity of water supply, often overlooking divergent ecosystem water demands across vegetation types, regions, and time. These diverse ecosystem water demands need to be incorporated into an effective ecological drought monitoring and assessment framework.

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Fig. 1: Status and trend of ecological drought research.
Fig. 2: The multifaceted characteristics of ecological drought.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41988101), the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (grant no. 2019QZKK0208), and Joint CAS-MPG Research Project HZXM20225001MI. A.C. acknowledges support from the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0022074).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System and Resources Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Jiangpeng Cui & Shilong Piao

  2. Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Anping Chen

  3. UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

    Chris Huntingford

  4. Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Shilong Piao

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Cui, J., Chen, A., Huntingford, C. et al. Integrating ecosystem water demands into drought monitoring and assessment under climate change. Nat Water 2, 215–218 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00217-6

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