PREMISE OF THE STUDY Trait differences can promote distinct survival and fecundity responses to environmental fluctuations. In a Sonoran Desert winter annual plant community, we have identified a tradeoff between relative growth rate (RGR) and water-use efficiency (WUE) that predicts interannual variation in reproductive success. Here we test the hypothesis that traits underlying RGR and WUE di...

Enhancing water use efficiency (WUE) is the key approach to maintain sustainable water resource supply. Due to the complexity of the water cycle, accurate estimation of WUE at the regional scale is a challenging task. Here we presented a framework of relative water use efficiency (RWUE). According to the linkage between RWUE and land use types, assessment of WUE at a regional scale could be per...

سابقه و هدف: در سال­ های اخیر روند رو به افزایش تخریب منابع آب، خاک محیط زیست اثر کاربرد بی رویه مواد شیمیایی موجب ترغیب پژوهشگران کشاورزی ارگانیک سال ­های شده است. با وجود همه اثرات مثبتی که ارتباط مصرف آلی بر روی ویژگی­ فیزیکی مطرح است، هنوز این رابطه نگرانی­ زیادی از نظر مسائل زیست­ محیطی، سلامت دارد. بسته منبع، اغلب دارای مقادیر نسبتا عناصر سنگین می باشند؛ بنابراین اندازه گیری دقیق میزان فل...

Water use efficiency (WUE) is an important trait that has been associated with drought tolerance of crop plants, and leaf ash (LASH) generally related to WUE. A restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) map was constructed from a soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] population of 120 F4-derived lines from a cross of’Young’ × P1416937. The purpose of this research was to identify quantitative ...

Water-use efficiency (WUE), defined as the ratio of net primary productivity (NPP) to evapotranspiration (ET), is an important indicator to represent the trade-off pattern between vegetation productivity and water consumption. Its dynamics under climate change are important to ecohydrology and ecosystem management, especially in the drylands. In this study, we modified and used a late version o...