Spatial Configuration of Drought Disturbance and Forest Gap Creation across Environmental Gradients

High-quality spatial climate data-sets for Australia

(2017) D Jones et al.   Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Eucalyptus forest shows low structural resistance and resilience to climate change-type drought

(2016) George Matusick et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Inferring drought and heat sensitivity across a Mediterranean forest region in southwest Western Australia: a comparison of approaches

(2015) N.C. Brouwers et al.   FORESTRY

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

Forest disturbance and regeneration: a mosaic of discrete gap dynamics and open matrix regimes?

(2014) George Alan Blackburn et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Topography influences the distribution of autumn frost damage on trees in a Mediterranean-type Eucalyptus forest

(2014) George Matusick et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Drought-induced woody plant mortality in an encroached semi-arid savanna depends on topoedaphic factors and land management

(2013) Dirac Twidwell et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Landscape-scale forest disturbance regimes in southern Peruvian Amazonia

(2013) Doreen S. Boyd et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Sudden forest canopy collapse corresponding with extreme drought and heat in a mediterranean-type eucalypt forest in southwestern Australia

(2013) George Matusick et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

(2013) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The interaction between a drying climate and land use affects forest structure and above-ground carbon storage

(2013) Joanne M. Bennett et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Spatial contiguity and continuity of canopy gaps in mixed wood boreal forests: persistence, expansion, shrinkage and displacement

(2013) Udayalakshmi Vepakomma et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Small-scale disturbance and stand structure dynamics in an old-growthPicea abiesforest over 54 yr in central Sweden

(2013) Håkan Hytteborn et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Forest Canopy Gap Distributions in the Southern Peruvian Amazon

(2013) Gregory P. Asner et al.   PLoS One

Population resilience to an extreme drought is influenced by habitat area and fragmentation in the local landscape

(2012) Tom H. Oliver et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Patch size-dependent community recovery after massive disturbance

(2012) Christine Angelini et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought-induced tree mortality: ecological consequences, causes, and modeling

(2012) Weifeng Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Quantification of repeated gap formation events and their spatial patterns in three types of old-growth forests: Analysis of long-term canopy dynamics using aerial photographs and digital surface models

(2012) Takeshi Torimaru et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought, groundwater storage and stream flow decline in southwestern Australia

(2012) J. D. Hughes et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Does fire regime affect both temporal patterns and drivers of vegetation recovery in a resilient Mediterranean landscape? A remote sensing approach at two observation levels

(2012) F. Javier Lozano et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Landscape-scale assessment of tree crown dieback following extreme drought and heat in a Mediterranean eucalypt forest ecosystem

(2012) Niels Brouwers et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

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

The 10 Australian ecosystems most vulnerable to tipping points

(2011) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Methods for studying treefall gaps: A review

(2011) Sarah A. Schliemann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Rare drought-induced mortality of juniper is enhanced by edaphic stressors and influenced by stand density

(2011) M.A. Bowker et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar

(2011) Marc Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought

(2011) J. Carnicer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatial characteristics of canopy disturbances in riparian old-growth hemlock – northern hardwood forests, Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA

(2010) Miranda T. Curzon et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Streamflow decline in southwestern Australia, 1950-2008

(2010) Kevin C. Petrone et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Will a 385 million year-struggle for light become a struggle for water and for carbon? - How trees may cope with more frequent climate change-type drought events

(2010) HENRIK HARTMANN   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest

(2010) MICHAEL MICHAELIAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Vegetation and landscape connectivity control wildfire intervals in unmanaged semi-arid shrublands and woodlands in Australia

(2010) Alison J. O’Donnell et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Differential effects of climate variability on forest dynamics along a precipitation gradient in northern Patagonia

(2010) María Laura Suarez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Stand-replacing patches within a ‘mixed severity’ fire regime: quantitative characterization using recent fires in a long-established natural fire area

(2010) Brandon M. Collins et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Spatial and temporal signatures of fragility and threshold proximity in modelled semi-arid vegetation

(2010) R. M. Bailey   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Modeling the Effects of Fire Severity and Spatial Complexity on Small Mammals in Yosemite National Park, California

(2010) Susan L. Roberts et al.   Fire Ecology

Convergent structural responses of tropical forests to diverse disturbance regimes

(2009) James R. Kellner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

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

(2009) H. D. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

(2009) Aaron Clauset et al.   SIAM REVIEW

Impacts of a regional drought on the productivity, dieback, and biomass of western Canadian aspen forests

(2008) E. H. (Ted) Hogg et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Key findings from the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative and their impact on policy development in Australia

(2008) Bryson C. Bates et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

CHANGING THE GAP DYNAMICS PARADIGM: VEGETATIVE REGENERATION CONTROL ON FOREST RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCE

(2008) Michael C. Dietze et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots

(2008) Jeremy I. Fisher et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Linking fire ecology and fire management in south-west Australian forest landscapes

(2008) N.D. Burrows   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Density-dependent tree mortality in pinyon-juniper woodlands

(2008) David L. Greenwood et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rapid mortality of Populus tremuloides in southwestern Colorado, USA

(2007) James J. Worrall et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT