| dc.contributor.author | Rockström, Johan | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Gordon, Line | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Folke, Carl | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Falkenmark, Malin | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Engwall, Maria | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-31T15:00:25Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-07-31T15:00:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2009-01-26 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2009-01-26 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3380 | |
| dc.description.abstract | "Global freshwater assessments have not addressed the linkages among water vapor flows, agricultural food production, and terrestrial ecosystem services. We perform the first bottom-up estimate of continental water vapor flows, subdivided into the major terrestrial biomes, and arrive at a total continental water vapor flow of 70,000 km3/yr (ranging from 56,000 to 84,000 km3/yr). Of this flow, 90% is attributed to forests, including woodlands (40,000 km3/yr), wetlands (1400 km3/yr), grasslands (15,100 km3/yr), and croplands (6800 km3/yr). These terrestrial biomes sustain society with essential welfare-supporting ecosystem services, including food production. By analyzing the freshwater requirements of an increasing demand for food in the year 2025, we discover a critical trade-off between flows of water vapor for food production and for other welfare-supporting ecosystem services. To reduce the risk of unintentional welfare losses, this trade-off must become embedded in intentional ecohydrological landscape management." | en_US |
| dc.subject | food supply | en_US |
| dc.subject | water management | en_US |
| dc.subject | resilience | en_US |
| dc.subject | ecosystems | en_US |
| dc.title | Linkages Among Water Vapor Flows, Food Production, and Terrestrial Ecosystem Services | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
| dc.type.published | published | en_US |
| dc.subject.sector | General & Multiple Resources | en_US |
| dc.subject.sector | Water Resource & Irrigation | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationjournal | Ecology and Society | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationvolume | 3 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationnumber | 2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationmonth | December | en_US |
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