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Dead or dying? Quantifying the point of no return from hydraulic failure in drought‐induced tree mortality

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Disentangling seasonal and interannual legacies from inferred patterns of forest water and carbon cycling using tree-ring stable isotopes

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Homeostatic levels of nonstructural carbohydrates after 13 yr of drought and irrigation in Pinus sylvestris

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

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Changes in tree resistance, recovery and resilience across three successive extreme droughts in the northeast Iberian Peninsula

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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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Geographical adaptation prevails over species‐specific determinism in trees’ vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear‐edge forests

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

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CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America

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Quantifying antecedent climatic drivers of tree growth in the Southwestern US

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

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Long-term effects of drought on tree-ring growth and carbon isotope variability in Scots pine in a dry environment

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The twenty-first century Colorado River hot drought and implications for the future

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Weakening of the North American monsoon with global warming

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Historic and projected changes in vapor pressure deficit suggest a continental-scale drying of the United States atmosphere

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

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Contrasting dynamics of leaf potential and gas exchange during progressive drought cycles and recovery in Amorpha fruticosa and Robinia pseudoacacia

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Recurrent water deficit causes epigenetic and hormonal changes in citrus plants

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Running dry: The U.S. Southwest's drift into a drier climate state

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Latitudinal gradients in tree ring stable carbon and oxygen isotopes reveal differential climate influences of the North American Monsoon System

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A multi-model and multi-index evaluation of drought characteristics in the 21st century

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Toward accounting for ecoclimate teleconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change

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

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Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

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

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

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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

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

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Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

(2014) Kiona Ogle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Quantifying the timescales over which exogenous and endogenous conditions affect soil respiration

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A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

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Separating Active and Passive Influences on Stomatal Control of Transpiration[OPEN]

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Competition for Water and Light in Closed-Canopy Forests: A Tractable Model of Carbon Allocation with Implications for Carbon Sinks

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Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

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

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Abscisic Acid Mediates a Divergence in the Drought Response of Two Conifers

(2013) T. J. Brodribb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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The response of the North American Monsoon to increased greenhouse gas forcing

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Little change in global drought over the past 60 years

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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

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

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Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

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Latewood Chronology Development for Summer-Moisture Reconstruction In the US Southwest

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Millennial precipitation reconstruction for the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, reveals changingb drought signal

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(2008) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere

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Cool- and Warm-Season Precipitation Reconstructions over Western New Mexico

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