And a link that isn't behind a paywall: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Drought experiments need to incorporate atmospheric drying to better simulate climate change

Abstract. Climate models predict more frequent, prolonged, and extreme droughts in the future. Therefore, drought experiments varying in amount and duration acr

We know VPD matters. We need to get serious about adding humidity to drought experiments. Thanks to Scott Collins for working with me on this!

We know that plants respond strongly to atmospheric moisture (not just soil moisture). Sometimes plants reduce growth when VPD increases even when soil moisture is not limiting! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

And our experiment in Southern California in Native perennial grasses: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

A new VPD/misting experiment in a forest in Switzerland: www.wsl.ch/en/projects/...

VPDrought

By deciphering the single vs. combined VPD and soil moisture effects, we will be able to improve global predictions. We aim to apply a scale spanning approach to disentangle the processes affected by ...

An herbaceous understory in Germany: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

There are only a small handful outdoor humidity experiments that can get at this. Namely, a forest misting experiment in Estonia: fahm.ut.ee/main?lang=en

The atmospheric moisture anomaly (VPD) is becoming increasingly important and strong. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Rainout shelter research has been incredibly important for advancing our understanding of climate change induced droughts. But these methods are not designed to affect atmospheric moisture

Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game.