Reply to Pierret and Lacombe: Global controls on maximum rooting depths remain important

Ying Fan¹, Gonzalo Miguez-Macho², Esteban G Jobbágy³, Robert B Jackson^{4

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6}, Carlos Otero-Casal²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08854; yingfan@eps.rutgers.edu.
² Non-Linear Physics Group, Faculty of Physics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
³ Grupo de Estudios Ambientales-Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, D5700HHW San Luis, Argentina.
⁴ Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
⁵ Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
⁶ Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

Comment

Ying Fan et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018.

. 2018 Mar 20;115(12):E2671-E2672.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1801899115. Epub 2018 Feb 27.

Ying Fan¹, Gonzalo Miguez-Macho², Esteban G Jobbágy³, Robert B Jackson^{4

5

6}, Carlos Otero-Casal²

¹ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08854; yingfan@eps.rutgers.edu.
² Non-Linear Physics Group, Faculty of Physics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
³ Grupo de Estudios Ambientales-Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, D5700HHW San Luis, Argentina.
⁴ Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
⁵ Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
⁶ Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth.
Fan Y, Miguez-Macho G, Jobbágy EG, Jackson RB, Otero-Casal C. Fan Y, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Oct 3;114(40):10572-10577. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1712381114. Epub 2017 Sep 18. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 28923923 Free PMC article. Review.
Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth: Breakthrough or observational conundrum?
Pierret A, Lacombe G. Pierret A, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Mar 20;115(12):E2669-E2670. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1801721115. Epub 2018 Feb 27. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018. PMID: 29487218 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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