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Regulation and acclimation of leaf gas exchange in a piñon-juniper woodland exposed to three different precipitation regimes

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Determinants of drought effects on crown condition and their relationship with depletion of carbon reserves in a Mediterranean holm oak forest

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(2012) A. Sala et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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(2012) A. Park Williams et al.   Nature Climate Change

Projections of declining surface-water availability for the southwestern United States

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(2012) Aiguo Dai   Nature Climate Change

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Extreme climatic event-triggered overstorey vegetation loss increases understorey solar input regionally: primary and secondary ecological implications

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A global comparison between station air temperatures and MODIS land surface temperatures reveals the cooling role of forests

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Comparing Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Patterns of Interannual Precipitation Variability over the Western United States and Northern Mexico*

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(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

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Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

(2010) Rosie Fisher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The mechanisms of carbon starvation: how, when, or does it even occur at all?

(2010) Nate G. McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Xylem function and growth rate interact to determine recovery rates after exposure to extreme water deficit

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Physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality are far from being resolved

(2010) Anna Sala et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing Drought in the American Southwest? A Continental Perspective Using a Spatial Analytical Evaluation of Recent Trends

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Greenhouse warming and the 21st century hydroclimate of southwestern North America

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Variable conductivity and embolism in roots and branches of four contrasting tree species and their impacts on whole-plant hydraulic performance under future atmospheric CO2 concentration

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Calibration of thermal dissipation sap flow probes for ring- and diffuse-porous trees

(2010) S. E. Bush et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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(2009) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Starch-to-sugar conversion in wood parenchyma of field-growingLaurus nobilisplants: a component of the signal pathway for embolism repair?

(2009) Sebastiano Salleo et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Long-term transpiration change with rainfall decline in a MediterraneanQuercus ilexforest

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Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome

(2009) JANA L. HEISLER-WHITE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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(2009) G. R. van der Werf et al.   Nature Geoscience

Leaf hydraulics and drought stress: response, recovery and survivorship in four woody temperate plant species

(2009) CHRISTOPHER J. BLACKMAN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Lack of direct evidence for the carbon-starvation hypothesis to explain drought-induced mortality in trees

(2009) A. Sala   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Poor methodology for predicting large-scale tree die-off

(2009) S. Leuzinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

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Confronting Maxwell's demon: biophysics of xylem embolism repair

(2009) Maciej A. Zwieniecki et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2008) Alan K. Knapp et al.   BIOSCIENCE

TRANSPIRATION AND HYDRAULIC STRATEGIES IN A PIÑON–JUNIPER WOODLAND

(2008) A. G. West et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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(2008) Robert B Jackson et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements

(2008) David D Breshears et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Drought-induced hydraulic limitations constrain leaf gas exchange recovery after precipitation pulses in the C3 woody legume, Prosopis velutina

(2008) Víctor Resco et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Using multiple trait associations to define hydraulic functional types in plant communities of south-western Australia

(2008) Patrick J. Mitchell et al.   OECOLOGIA

Hydraulic Failure Defines the Recovery and Point of Death in Water-Stressed Conifers

(2008) T. J. Brodribb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Precipitation thresholds for CO2 uptake in grass and shrub plant communities on Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed

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