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

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.