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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - The reliable partitioning of the terrestrial latent heat flux into evaporation
    (E) and transpiration (T) is important for linking carbon and water cycles and
    for better understanding ecosystem functioning at local, regional and global scales.
    Previous research revealed that the transpiration-to-evapotranspiration ratio
    (T/ET) is well constrained across ecosystems and is nearly independent of vegetation
    characteristics and climate. Here we investigated the reasons for such a global
    constancy in present-day T/ET by jointly analysing observations and process-based
    model simulations. Using this framework, we also quantified how the ratio T/ET
    could be influenced by changing climate. For present conditions, we found that
    the various components of land surface evaporation (bare soil evaporation, below
    canopy soil evaporation, evaporation from interception), and their respective
    ratios to plant transpiration, depend largely on local climate and equilibrium
    vegetation properties. The systematic covariation between local vegetation characteristics
    and climate, resulted in a globally constrained value of T/ET = ∼70 ± 9% for undisturbed
    ecosystems, nearly independent of specific climate and vegetation attributes.
    Moreover, changes in precipitation amounts and patterns, increasing air temperatures,
    atmospheric CO2 concentration, and specific leaf area (the ratio of leaf area
    per leaf mass) was found to affect T/ET in various manners. However, even extreme
    changes in the aforementioned factors did not significantly modify T/ET.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Athanasios
      foaf_name: Paschalis, Athanasios
      foaf_surname: Paschalis
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Simone
      foaf_name: Fatichi, Simone
      foaf_surname: Fatichi
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=cf8e546b-a9b0-11f0-a43b-aa89ed1b56d6
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Christoforos
      foaf_name: Pappas, Christoforos
      foaf_surname: Pappas
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Dani
      foaf_name: Or, Dani
      foaf_surname: Or
  bibo_doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aae267
  bibo_issue: '10'
  bibo_volume: 13
  dct_date: 2018^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/1748-9326
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: IOP Publishing @
  dct_subject:
  - T/ET
  - Evapotranspiration partitioning
  - Ecohydrology
  - Modelling
  - Climate change
  dct_title: Covariation of vegetation and climate constrains present and future T/ET
    variability@
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