Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

Amazonian trees have limited capacity to acclimate plant hydraulic properties in response to long‐term drought

(2020) P.R.L. Bittencourt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species

(2020) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Stomatal optimization based on xylem hydraulics (SOX) improves land surface model simulation of vegetation responses to climate

(2020) Cleiton B. Eller et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Adjustments and coordination of hydraulic, leaf and stem traits along a water availability gradient

(2019) Teresa Rosas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO2 enrichment

(2019) Anthony P. Walker et al.   Nature Communications

Effects of temperature on the cuticular transpiration barrier of two desert plants with water-spender and water-saver strategies

(2019) Amauri Bueno et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Forest Drought Resistance at Large Geographic Scales

(2019) P. G. Brodrick et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Functional Status of Xylem Through Time

(2019) Craig R. Brodersen et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

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

(2019) Steven A. Kannenberg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Which trees die during drought? The key role of insect host‐tree selection

(2019) Nathan L. Stephenson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How do stomata respond to water status?

(2019) Thomas N. Buckley   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2019) William M. Hammond et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits

(2019) Izabela Aleixo et al.   Nature Climate Change

Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis

(2019) Paulo M. Brando et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Declining root water transport drives stomatal closure in olive under moderate water stress

(2019) Celia M. Rodriguez‐Dominguez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Correlative climatic niche models predict real and virtual species distributions equally well

(2019) Valentin Journé et al.   ECOLOGY

The impact of rising CO2and acclimation on the response of US forests to global warming

(2019) John S. Sperry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Responses of forest insect pests to climate change: not so simple

(2019) Hervé Jactel et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

How to kill a tree: empirical mortality models for 18 species and their performance in a dynamic forest model

(2018) Lisa Hülsmann et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Assessing inter- and intraspecific variability of xylem vulnerability to embolism in oaks

(2018) Albin Lobo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Trait selection and community weighting are key to understanding ecosystem responses to changing precipitation regimes

(2018) Robert J. Griffin-Nolan et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Trees tolerate an extreme heatwave via sustained transpirational cooling and increased leaf thermal tolerance

(2018) John E. Drake et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2018) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tree hydraulic traits are coordinated and strongly linked to climate-of-origin across a rainfall gradient

(2018) Ximeng Li et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

(2018) Matteo Detto et al.   Nature Communications

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns

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

Resilience of seed production to a severe El Niño-induced drought across functional groups and dispersal types

(2018) Michael J. O'Brien et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Triggers of tree mortality under drought

(2018) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

(2018) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NATURE

Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2018) Yan Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Vapor-pressure deficit and extreme climatic variables limit tree growth

(2017) Paula Sanginés de Cárcer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2017) Xiuchen Wu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2017) Alistair S. Jump et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How disturbance, competition, and dispersal interact to prevent tree range boundaries from keeping pace with climate change

(2017) Yu Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Density-dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought

(2017) Alessandra Bottero et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Increase in leaf temperature opens stomata and decouples net photosynthesis from stomatal conductance in Pinus taeda and Populus deltoides x nigra

(2017) Josef Urban et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Aridity drove the evolution of extreme embolism resistance and the radiation of conifer genus Callitris

(2017) Maximilian Larter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Role of tree size in moist tropical forest carbon cycling and water deficit responses

(2017) Victoria Meakem 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

Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2concentration alleviate forest mortality risk

(2017) Yanlan Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Acclimation of branch and leaf hydraulics in adult Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies in a forest through-fall exclusion experiment

(2017) Martina Tomasella 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

Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period

(2017) Josep Peñuelas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Water availability drives gas exchange and growth of trees in northeastern US, not elevated CO2 and reduced acid deposition

(2017) Mathieu Levesque et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

(2016) Thomas E. Kolb et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Ecohydrological implications of drought for forests in the United States

(2016) James M. Vose et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought-induced vegetation shifts in terrestrial ecosystems: The key role of regeneration dynamics

(2016) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

(2016) James S. Clark et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Visual quantification of embolism reveals leaf vulnerability to hydraulic failure

(2016) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Vulnerability to xylem embolism as a major correlate of the environmental distribution of rain forest species on a tropical island

(2016) Santiago Trueba et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

(2016) John S. Sperry et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Plant responses to increasing CO2reduce estimates of climate impacts on drought severity

(2016) Abigail L. S. Swann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optimal stomatal behavior with competition for water and risk of hydraulic impairment

(2016) Adam Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effectiveness of cuticular transpiration barriers in a desert plant at controlling water loss at high temperatures

(2016) Ann-Christin Schuster et al.   AoB Plants

Plasticity in Vulnerability to Cavitation of Pinus canariensis Occurs Only at the Driest End of an Aridity Gradient

(2016) Rosana López et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Geoscience

How adaptable is the hydraulic system of European beech in the face of climate change-related precipitation reduction?

(2015) Bernhard Schuldt et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

(2015) D. C. Frank 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

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

No growth stimulation of tropical trees by 150 years of CO2 fertilization but water-use efficiency increased

(2014) Peter van der Sleen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exposure of trees to drought-induced die-off is defined by a common climatic threshold across different vegetation types

(2014) Patrick J. Mitchell et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Hydraulic failure and repair are not routine in trees

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

Methods for measuring plant vulnerability to cavitation: a critical review

(2013) Hervé Cochard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Limited genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity detected for cavitation resistance in a Mediterranean pine

(2013) Jean-Baptiste Lamy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global warming and changes in drought

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

Diversity in nighttime transpiration behavior of woody species of the Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil

(2012) Bruno H.P. Rosado et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

(2012) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   ECOLOGY

Nocturnal stomatal conductance responses to rising [CO2], temperature and drought

(2011) Melanie J. B. Zeppel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genotypic variability and phenotypic plasticity of cavitation resistance in Fagus sylvatica L. across Europe

(2011) R. Wortemann et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Increased water-use efficiency during the 20th century did not translate into enhanced tree growth

(2010) Josep Peñuelas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Xylem function and growth rate interact to determine recovery rates after exposure to extreme water deficit

(2010) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate

(2010) A.B. Nicotra et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

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

Hydraulic adjustment of Scots pine across Europe

(2009) J. Martínez-Vilalta et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations

(2008) Sally N. Aitken et al.   Evolutionary Applications

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

Hydraulic Failure Defines the Recovery and Point of Death in Water-Stressed Conifers

(2008) T. J. Brodribb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY