Legacies of more frequent drought in ponderosa pine across the western United States

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Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth

(2019) Flurin Babst et al.   Science Advances

Land carbon models underestimate the severity and duration of drought’s impact on plant productivity

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Linking drought legacy effects across scales: From leaves to tree rings to ecosystems

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Twentieth-century hydroclimate changes consistent with human influence

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Drought timing influences the legacy of tree growth recovery

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Direct observations of rock moisture, a hidden component of the hydrologic cycle

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Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns

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Antecedent soil water content and vapor pressure deficit interactively control water potential in Larrea tridentata

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Drought legacies are dependent on water table depth, wood anatomy and drought timing across the eastern US

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Legacies of La Niña: North American monsoon can rescue trees from winter drought

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Eyes on the future - evidence for trade-offs between growth, storage and defense in Norway spruce

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Sampling bias overestimates climate change impacts on forest growth in the southwestern United States

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Ecological memory modifies the cumulative impact of recurrent climate extremes

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A range of possibilities: Assessing geographic variation in climate sensitivity of ponderosa pine using tree rings

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Legacy effects and memory loss: how contingencies moderate the response of rocky intertidal biofilms to present and past extreme events

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Intra-annual plasticity of growth mediates drought resilience over multiple years in tropical seedling communities

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Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere

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A global analysis of plant recovery performance from water stress

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Single-provenance mature conifers show higher non-structural carbohydrate storage and reduced growth in a drier location

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

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Pinus ponderosa : A checkered past obscured four species

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Long-term climate and competition explain forest mortality patterns under extreme drought

(2016) Derek J. N. Young et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Wood anatomy and carbon-isotope discrimination support long-term hydraulic deterioration as a major cause of drought-induced dieback

(2016) Elena Pellizzari et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Species-specific reversal of stem xylem embolism after a prolonged drought correlates to endpoint concentration of soluble sugars

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The dynamics of carbon stored in xylem sapwood to drought-induced hydraulic stress in mature trees

(2016) Kenichi Yoshimura et al.   Scientific Reports

Antecedent moisture and temperature conditions modulate the response of ecosystem respiration to elevated CO2and warming

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Nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics of lodgepole pine dying from mountain pine beetle attack

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Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

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Growth duration is a better predictor of stem increment than carbon supply in a Mediterranean oak forest: implications for assessing forest productivity under climate change

(2015) Morine Lempereur et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Wood phenology, not carbon input, controls the interannual variability of wood growth in a temperate oak forest

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Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

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Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

(2015) N. G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

(2014) Kiona Ogle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How unusual is the 2012-2014 California drought?

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The influence of sampling design on tree-ring-based quantification of forest growth

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Mitochondrial DNA haplotype distribution patterns in Pinus ponderosa (Pinaceae): Range-wide evolutionary history and implications for conservation

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Nonstructural Carbon in Woody Plants

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(2013) Jonathan T. Overpeck   NATURE

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Concurrent measurements of change in the bark and xylem diameters of trees reveal a phloem-generated turgor signal

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Reduced transpiration response to precipitation pulses precedes mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland subject to prolonged drought

(2013) Jennifer A. Plaut et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Above-ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites

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How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses

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Maintenance of xylem Network Transport Capacity: A Review of Embolism Repair in Vascular Plants

(2013) Craig R. Brodersen et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

Does proxy uncertainty affect the relations inferred between the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and wildfire activity in the western United States?

(2012) Kurt F. Kipfmueller et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk

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

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

Carbon reserves and canopy defoliation determine the recovery of Scots pine 4 yr after a drought episode

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Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

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Geographic variation in growth response of Douglas-fir to interannual climate variability and projected climate change

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

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

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Growth, carbon-isotope discrimination, and drought-associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect

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A dendrochronology program library in R (dplR)

(2008) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

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

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

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Height-related growth declines in ponderosa pine are not due to carbon limitation

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

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE