Plant Hydraulic Stress Explained Tree Mortality and Tree Size Explained Beetle Attack in a Mixed Conifer Forest

Modelling water fluxes in plants: from tissues to biosphere

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Plant functional traits and climate influence drought intensification and land–atmosphere feedbacks

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AquaFlux: Rapid, Transparent, and Replicable Analyses of Plant Transpiration

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Historical and event-based bioclimatic suitability predicts regional forest vulnerability to compound effects of severe drought and bark beetle infestation

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A stomatal control model based on optimization of carbon gain versus hydraulic risk predicts aspen sapling responses to drought

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

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Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

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Accounting for landscape heterogeneity improves spatial predictions of tree vulnerability to drought

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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

Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

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Geophysical Measurements to Determine the Hydrologic Partitioning of Snowmelt on a Snow-Dominated Subalpine Hillslope

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

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Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought-induced forest dieback

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Hydrologic refugia, plants, and climate change

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Differential declines in Alaskan boreal forest vitality related to climate and competition

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

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

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Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth

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Improving ecosystem-scale modeling of evapotranspiration using ecological mechanisms that account for compensatory responses following disturbance

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

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

Lessons learned from applying a forest gap model to understand ecosystem and carbon dynamics of complex tropical forests

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

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

(2016) Xiaonan Tai et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Water potential regulation, stomatal behaviour and hydraulic transport under drought: deconstructing the iso/anisohydric concept

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Predicting stomatal responses to the environment from the optimization of photosynthetic gain and hydraulic cost

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Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

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Chaparral Shrub Hydraulic Traits, Size, and Life History Types Relate to Species Mortality during California’s Historic Drought of 2014

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An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation

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Size-related scaling of tree form and function in a mixed-age forest

(2015) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Drought stress limits the geographic ranges of two tree species via different physiological mechanisms

(2015) Leander D. L. Anderegg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

(2015) L. Rowland et al.   NATURE

Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage

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

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

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Research frontiers in drought-induced tree mortality: crossing scales and disciplines

(2015) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Half-century evidence from western Canada shows forest dynamics are primarily driven by competition followed by climate

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Groundwater in the Earth's critical zone: Relevance to large-scale patterns and processes

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

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Hydrological partitioning in the critical zone: Recent advances and opportunities for developing transferable understanding of water cycle dynamics

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Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

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

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Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

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Impact of mountain pine beetle induced mortality on forest carbon and water fluxes

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Stand-scale tree mortality factors differ by site and species following drought in southwestern mixed conifer forests

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Soil moisture response to snowmelt timing in mixed-conifer subalpine forests

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Patterns and causes of observed piñon pine mortality in the southwestern United States

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Competition-interaction landscapes for the joint response of forests to climate change

(2013) James S. Clark et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought predisposes piñon-juniper woodlands to insect attacks and mortality

(2013) Monica L. Gaylord et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2013) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework

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Cascading impacts of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes

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A species-level model for metabolic scaling in trees I. Exploring boundaries to scaling space within and across species

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Forest structure altered by mountain pine beetle outbreaks affects subsequent attack in a Wyoming lodgepole pine forest, USA

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Use of temporal patterns in vapor pressure deficit to explain spatial autocorrelation dynamics in tree transpiration

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The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Observations and modeling of aboveground tree carbon stocks and fluxes following a bark beetle outbreak in the western United States

(2010) ERIC M. PFEIFER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Modeling whole-tree carbon assimilation rate using observed transpiration rates and needle sugar carbon isotope ratios

(2010) Jia Hu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Importance of resin ducts in reducing ponderosa pine mortality from bark beetle attack

(2010) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Longer growing seasons lead to less carbon sequestration by a subalpine forest

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Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   NATURE

Capturing the influence of groundwater dynamics on land surface processes using an integrated, distributed watershed model

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