Asymmetric temperature responses to soil moisture drought legacies under anthropogenic forcing

X.L. acknowledges the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (grant no. 42225107). J.L. acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42301106) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. M.W. acknowledges funding from the Swedish Research Council (grant no. 2025-04134), the Swedish National Space Agency (grant no. 2021-00111), the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (grant no. 2022-00643), Stiftelsen Oscar och Lili Lamms Minne (grant no. FO2022-0016), and support from the EU Horizon 2020 GreenFeedBack project (grant agreement ID: 101056921). X.T. acknowledges the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42471022, 52179030 and 42375165) and the Province Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong (2024B515020046, 2022A1515240018). W.L. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 42271419), Innovation Group Project of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) (grant no. 311021004), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Sun Yat-sen University (grant no. 23lgbj014).

X.L. discloses support for the research of this work from the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (grant no. 42225107). J.L. discloses support for the research of this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42301106) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Interdisciplinary Institute for Future Water and Ocean Intelligence, School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South, China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

   Jun Li, Xushu Wu, Chengguang Lai, Zhaoli Wang, Xiangju Cheng & Hongwu Tang

2. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

   Minchao Wu

3. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

   Minchao Wu

4. Guangdong Key Laboratory for Urbanization and Geo-simulation, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

   Weilin Liao & Xiaoping Liu

5. Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai, China

   Weilin Liao, Xuezhi Tan & Xiaoping Liu

6. Center of Water Resources and Environment, School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, PR China

   Xuezhi Tan

7. CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

   Josep Peñuelas

8. CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

   Josep Peñuelas

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to
Jun Li or Xiaoping Liu.

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The authors declare no competing interests.

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