Dry and hot: the hydraulic consequences of a climate change–type drought for Amazonian trees

Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest

(2018) Mauro Brum et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Triggers of tree mortality under drought

(2018) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Stronger cooling effects of transpiration and leaf physical traits of plants from a hot dry habitat than from a hot wet habitat

(2017) Hua Lin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees

(2017) Thomas L. Powell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Deep soil water dynamics in an undisturbed primary forest in central Amazonia: Differences between normal years and the 2005 drought

(2017) Elisângela Broedel et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

The importance of hydraulic architecture to the distribution patterns of trees in a central Amazonian forest

(2017) Luiza H. M. Cosme et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

In situ temperature response of photosynthesis of 42 tree and liana species in the canopy of two Panamanian lowland tropical forests with contrasting rainfall regimes

(2017) Martijn Slot et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gas exchange recovery following natural drought is rapid unless limited by loss of leaf hydraulic conductance: evidence from an evergreen woodland

(2017) Robert P. Skelton et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coping with gravity: the foliar water relations of giant sequoia

(2017) Cameron B Williams et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

(2017) Henry D. Adams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Plasticity in leaf-level water relations of tropical rainforest trees in response to experimental drought

(2016) Oliver Binks et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant pneumatics: stem air flow is related to embolism - new perspectives on methods in plant hydraulics

(2016) Luciano Pereira et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Record-breaking warming and extreme drought in the Amazon rainforest during the course of El Niño 2015–2016

(2016) Juan C. Jiménez-Muñoz et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of hydropeaking waves’ offsets on growth performances of juvenile Salix species

(2015) L. Gorla et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest

(2015) Isabelle Maréchaux et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Extreme seasonal droughts and floods in Amazonia: causes, trends and impacts

(2015) J. A. Marengo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   NATURE

What plant hydraulics can tell us about responses to climate-change droughts

(2015) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species

(2015) Sean M. Gleason et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diurnal changes in embolism rate in nine dry forest trees: relationships with species-specific xylem vulnerability, hydraulic strategy and wood traits

(2015) Patrizia Trifilò et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Testing optimal body mass theory: Evidence for cost of fat in wintering birds

(2015) Christopher M. Rogers   Ecosphere

Recent advances in tree hydraulics highlight the ecological significance of the hydraulic safety margin

(2014) Sylvain Delzon et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Loss of whole-tree hydraulic conductance during severe drought and multi-year forest die-off

(2014) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   OECOLOGIA

Hydraulic failure and repair are not routine in trees

(2013) Hervé Cochard et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Drought characteristics' role in widespread aspen forest mortality across Colorado, USA

(2013) Leander D. L. Anderegg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Mechanisms of Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants

(2013) Mirza Hasanuzzaman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Towards an advanced assessment of the hydrological vulnerability of forests to climate change-induced drought

(2013) Tamir Klein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increased vapor pressure deficit due to higher temperature leads to greater transpiration and faster mortality during drought for tree seedlings common to the forest-grassland ecotone

(2013) Rodney E. Will et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Xylem embolism threshold for catastrophic hydraulic failure in angiosperm trees

(2013) M. Urli et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Global warming and changes in drought

(2013) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global change-type drought-induced tree mortality: vapor pressure deficit is more important than temperature per se in causing decline in tree health

(2013) Derek Eamus et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A low cost apparatus for measuring the xylem hydraulic conductance in plants

(2013) Luciano Pereira et al.   BRAGANTIA

The determinants of leaf turgor loss point and prediction of drought tolerance of species and biomes: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

(2012) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Can hydraulic traits be used to predict sensitivity of drought-prone forests to crown decline and tree mortality?

(2012) Rafael S. Oliveira   PLANT AND SOIL

Supraglacial forcing of subglacial drainage in the ablation zone of the Greenland ice sheet

(2011) Ian Bartholomew et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

ROS and redox signalling in the response of plants to abiotic stress

(2011) NOBUHIRO SUZUKI et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

The 2010 Amazon Drought

(2011) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

(2010) Martin Jung et al.   NATURE

Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

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

Are tropical forests near a high temperature threshold?

(2008) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

Impact of a drier Early-Mid-Holocene climate upon Amazonian forests

(2008) F. E Mayle et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES