ReviewThe New phytologist2022
What happens after drought ends: synthesizing terms and definitions.
Review in The New phytologist, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Plant root plasticity during drought and recovery: What do we know and where to go?Frontiers in plant science · 2023Pooled it
- Drought conditions reorder plant communities through expansion of spatially sparse and temporally intermittent species.Ecology · 2026Article
- Aridity and drought: distinct concepts often conflated in ecological research.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- No legacy effects of severe drought on carbon and water fluxes in a Mediterranean oak forest.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Recurrent hot droughts cause persistent legacy effects in a temperate Scots Pine forest.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Drought legacy in mature spruce alleviates physiological stress during recurrent drought.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Silicon-mediated drought resilience mechanisms in crops: from physiology to molecular insights.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- The Effects of an Initial Extreme Drought and Chronic Change in Precipitation on Plant Biomass Allocation in a Temperate Grassland.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Drought Intensity Shapes Soil Legacy Effects on Grassland Plant and Soil Microbial Communities and Their Responses to Future Drought.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Multiyear Drought Strengthens Positive and Negative Functional Diversity Effects on Tree Growth Response.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Long-Term Temporal Divergence in Post-Drought Resilience Decline Between Deciduous and Evergreen Tree Species.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Mind the Data Gap: Using a Multi-Measurement Synthesis for Identifying the Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Plant Drought Response and Recovery.Plant, cell & environment · 2025Article
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- Evaluation of forest ecosystem resilience to drought considering lagged effects of drought.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Drought as an emergent driver of ecological transformation in the twenty-first century.Bioscience · 2024Article
- PbHsfC1a-coordinates ABA biosynthesis and HPlant biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- Cellular dynamics in the maize leaf growth zone during recovery from chilling depends on the leaf developmental stage.Plant cell reports · 2024Article
- Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Nutrient effects on drought responses vary across common temperate grassland species.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Mycorrhizas drive the evolution of plant adaptation to drought.Communications biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Drought is intensifying globally with climate change, creating an urgency to understand ecosystem response to drought both during and after these events end to limit loss of ecosystem functioning. The literature is replete with studies of how ecosystems respond during drought, yet there are far fewer studies focused on ecosystem dynamics after drought ends. Furthermore, while the terms used to describe drought can be variable and inconsistent, so can those that describe ecosystem responses following drought. With this review, we sought to evaluate and create clear definitions of the terms that ecologists use to describe post-drought responses. We found that legacy effects, resilience and recovery were used most commonly with respect to post-drought ecosystem responses, but the definitions used to describe these terms were variable. Based on our review of the literature, we propose a framework for generalizing ecosystem responses after drought ends, which we refer to as 'the post-drought period'. We suggest that future papers need to clearly describe characteristics of the imposed drought, and we encourage authors to use the term post-drought period as a general term that encompasses responses after drought ends and use other terms as more specific descriptors of responses during the post-drought period.
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