Conifers depend on established roots during drought: results from a coupled model of carbon allocation and hydraulics

Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat

(2019) Nate McDowell et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality

(2018) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought

(2018) Daniel M. Johnson et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Distributed Plant Hydraulic and Hydrological Modeling to Understand the Susceptibility of Riparian Woodland Trees to Drought-Induced Mortality

(2018) Xiaonan Tai et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns

(2018) A. T. Trugman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evolutionary history resolves global organization of root functional traits

(2018) Zeqing Ma et al.   NATURE

Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

(2017) Blair C. McLaughlin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities

(2017) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant xylem hydraulics: What we understand, current research, and future challenges

(2017) Martin D. Venturas et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Tree water dynamics in a drying and warming world

(2017) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth

(2017) Ying Fan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Mycorrhizal fungi and roots are complementary in foraging within nutrient patches

(2016) Lei Cheng et al.   ECOLOGY

A fast exploration of very deep soil layers by Eucalyptus seedlings and clones in Brazil

(2016) Rafael Costa Pinheiro et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum

(2016) Kris R. Kramer-Walter et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Pragmatic hydraulic theory predicts stomatal responses to climatic water deficits

(2016) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant hydraulics improves and topography mediates prediction of aspen mortality in southwestern USA

(2016) Xiaonan Tai et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Warming combined with more extreme precipitation regimes modifies the water sources used by trees

(2016) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mechanical Failure of Fine Root Cortical Cells Initiates Plant Hydraulic Decline during Drought

(2016) Italo F. Cuneo et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Fine root tradeoffs between nitrogen concentration and xylem vessel traits preclude unified whole-plant resource strategies inHelianthus

(2016) Alan W. Bowsher et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Modeling the seasonal dynamics of leaf area index based on environmental constraints to canopy development

(2015) Philip Savoy et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Experimental drought and heat can delay phenological development and reduce foliar and shoot growth in semiarid trees

(2015) Henry D. Adams et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Linking root traits to nutrient foraging in arbuscular mycorrhizal trees in a temperate forest

(2015) David M. Eissenstat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Coordination of physiological traits involved in drought-induced mortality of woody plants

(2015) Maurizio Mencuccini et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below-ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes

(2015) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Responses of two semiarid conifer tree species to reduced precipitation and warming reveal new perspectives for stomatal regulation

(2015) NúRIA Garcia-Forner et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Interdependence of chronic hydraulic dysfunction and canopy processes can improve integrated models of tree response to drought

(2015) D. Scott Mackay et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

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

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

New insights into leaf and fine-root trait relationships: implications of resource acquisition among 23 xerophytic woody species

(2015) Fang Lan Li et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Allocation trade-offs dominate the response of tropical forest growth to seasonal and interannual drought

(2014) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOLOGY

Regional analysis of drought and heat impacts on forests: current and future science directions

(2014) Beverly E. Law   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The combined effects of a long-term experimental drought and an extreme drought on the use of plant-water sources in a Mediterranean forest

(2014) Adrià Barbeta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Patterns in root traits of woody species hosting arbuscular and ectomycorrhizas: implications for the evolution of belowground strategies

(2014) Louise H. Comas et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Impacts of environmental factors on fine root lifespan

(2014) M. Luke McCormack et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Predicting community and ecosystem outcomes of mycorrhizal responses to global change

(2013) Nancy C. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Replicated throughfall exclusion experiment in an Indonesian perhumid rainforest: wood production, litter fall and fine root growth under simulated drought

(2013) Gerald Moser et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variation of first-order root traits across climatic gradients and evolutionary trends in geological time

(2013) Weile Chen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fine root biomass and dynamics in beech forests across a precipitation gradient - is optimal resource partitioning theory applicable to water-limited mature trees?

(2013) Dietrich Hertel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Hydraulic and carbohydrate changes in experimental drought-induced mortality of saplings in two conifer species

(2013) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Foraging strategies in trees of different root morphology: the role of root lifespan

(2013) T. S. Adams et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Dynamics of soil exploration by fine roots down to a depth of 10 m throughout the entire rotation in Eucalyptus grandis plantations

(2013) Jean-Paul Laclau et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Complex aspen forest carbon and root dynamics during drought

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Fine-root morphological and growth traits in a Turkey-oak stand in relation to seasonal changes in soil moisture in the Southern Apennines, Italy

(2012) Antonio Montagnoli et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The relationship between root hydraulics and scion vigour across Vitis rootstocks: what role do root aquaporins play?

(2012) G. A. Gambetta et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Predicting fine root lifespan from plant functional traits in temperate trees

(2012) M. Luke McCormack et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cenozoic climate change shaped the evolutionary ecophysiology of the Cupressaceae conifers

(2012) J. Pittermann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Patterns of root respiration rates and morphological traits in 13 tree species in a tropical forest

(2012) N. Makita et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

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

Effect of soil temperature and soil water content on fine root turnover rate in a California mixed conifer ecosystem

(2010) Kuni Kitajima et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Water uptake and hydraulic redistribution across large woody root systems to 20 m depth

(2010) TIMOTHY M. BLEBY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Groundwater uptake by woody vegetation in a semiarid oak savanna

(2010) Gretchen R. Miller et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Patterns in root trait variation among 25 co-existing North American forest species

(2009) L. H. Comas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought effects on allocation of recent carbon: from beech leaves to soil CO2 efflux

(2009) Nadine K. Ruehr et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

TRANSPIRATION AND HYDRAULIC STRATEGIES IN A PIÑON–JUNIPER WOODLAND

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

Belowground drought response of European beech: fine root biomass and carbon partitioning in 14 mature stands across a precipitation gradient

(2008) INA C. MEIER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effects of water availability on root growth and morphology in an Amazon rainforest

(2008) Daniel B. Metcalfe et al.   PLANT AND SOIL