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Research brief: Groundwater’s essential role in preserving plant transpiration during drought

September 17, 2021 11:13 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Groundwater’s essential role in preserving plant transpiration during drought

CLEX researchers and colleagues used a land-surface model that considered groundwater dynamics to explain how groundwater sustains transpiration and eases plant heat pressure during the heatwaves that occurred during the Millennium Drought and the 2017-2019 severe drought over southeast Australia.