With dwindling water supplies, the timing of rainfall matters UCRiverside
This is especially true near Palm Springs, where the research team created artificial rainfall to examine the effects onover the course of two years. This region has both winter and summer growing seasons, both of which are increasingly impacted by drought and, occasionally, extreme rain events.
"We wanted to understand whether one season is more sensitive to climate change than another," said Marko Spasojevic, UCR plant ecologist and lead study author."If we see an increase or decrease in summer rains, or winter rains, how does that affect the ecosystem?"
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