Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

Implementing Plant Hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

(2019) Daniel Kennedy et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

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

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

Role of forest regrowth in global carbon sink dynamics

(2019) Thomas A. M. Pugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A theory of pulse dynamics and disturbance in ecology

(2019) Anke Jentsch et al.   ECOLOGY

Five decades of northern land carbon uptake revealed by the interhemispheric CO2 gradient

(2019) P. Ciais et al.   NATURE

Short-interval severe fire erodes the resilience of subalpine lodgepole pine forests

(2019) Monica G. Turner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling the impact of liana infestation on the demography and carbon cycle of tropical forests

(2019) Manfredo di Porcia e Brugnera et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

(2019) Ulf Büntgen et al.   Nature Communications

Important role of forest disturbances in the global biomass turnover and carbon sinks

(2019) Thomas A. M. Pugh et al.   Nature Geoscience

Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

(2019) Wenping Yuan et al.   Science Advances

Lightning is a major cause of large tree mortality in a lowland neotropical forest

(2019) Stephen P. Yanoviak et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pervasive decreases in living vegetation carbon turnover time across forest climate zones

(2019) Kailiang Yu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tree height explains mortality risk during an intense drought

(2019) Atticus E. L. Stovall et al.   Nature Communications

Vegetation structural change since 1981 significantly enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink

(2019) Jing M. Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Delayed tree mortality, bark beetle activity, and regeneration dynamics five years following the Wallow Fire, Arizona, USA: Assessing trajectories towards resiliency

(2018) John P. Roccaforte et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Increasing Magnitude of Hurricane Rapid Intensification in the Central and Eastern Tropical Atlantic

(2018) Karthik Balaguru et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Large-scale disturbance legacies and the climate sensitivity of primary Picea abies forests

(2018) Jonathan S. Schurman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Development of an aggressive bark beetle on novel hosts: Implications for outbreaks in an invaded range

(2018) Derek W. Rosenberger et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

(2018) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Variation in hydroclimate sustains tropical forest biomass and promotes functional diversity

(2018) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Monitoring global tree mortality patterns and trends. Report from the VW symposium ‘Crossing scales and disciplines to identify global trends of tree mortality as indicators of forest health’

(2018) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances and Their Mitigation

(2018) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Invasive alien pests threaten the carbon stored in Europe’s forests

(2018) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Communications

Disequilibrium of fire-prone forests sets the stage for a rapid decline in conifer dominance during the 21st century

(2018) Josep M. Serra-Diaz et al.   Scientific Reports

Wood density reduced while wood volume growth accelerated in Central European forests since 1870

(2018) Hans Pretzsch et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Greening of the land surface in the world’s cold regions consistent with recent warming

(2018) T. F. Keenan et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

(2018) Daniel J. Johnson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe’s temperate forests over the last three decades

(2018) Cornelius Senf et al.   Nature Communications

Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

(2018) Andreas Sommerfeld et al.   Nature Communications

Global trends in carbon sinks and their relationships with CO2 and temperature

(2018) M. Fernández-Martínez et al.   Nature Climate Change

Five decades of balsam fir stand development after spruce budworm-related mortality

(2017) Grant V.J. Virgin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global and regional fluxes of carbon from land use and land cover change 1850-2015

(2017) R. A. Houghton et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains

(2017) Alan J. Tepley 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

Land use and life history limit migration capacity of eastern tree species

(2017) Kathryn M. Miller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Large historical growth in global terrestrial gross primary production

(2017) J. E. Campbell et al.   NATURE

Pollen Development at High Temperature: From Acclimation to Collapse

(2017) Ivo Rieu et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A matter of tree longevity

(2017) Christian Körner   SCIENCE

A human-driven decline in global burned area

(2017) N. Andela et al.   SCIENCE

Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

(2017) Junjie Liu et al.   SCIENCE

Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil

(2017) David S. Ellsworth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Twenty-four years after the Yellowstone Fires: Are postfire lodgepole pine stands converging in structure and function?

(2016) Monica G. Turner et al.   ECOLOGY

Paradigms in Eastern Spruce Budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) Population Ecology: A Century of Debate

(2016) Deepa S. Pureswaran et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Delayed tree mortality and Chinese tallow ( Triadica sebifera ) population explosion in a Louisiana bottomland hardwood forest following Hurricane Katrina

(2016) Theryn K. Henkel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

(2016) Jill F Johnstone et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A trait-mediated, neighbourhood approach to quantify climate impacts on successional dynamics of tropical rainforests

(2016) María Uriarte et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Warming and provenance limit tree recruitment across and beyond the elevation range of subalpine forest

(2016) Lara M. Kueppers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Land management: data availability and process understanding for global change studies

(2016) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global environmental change effects on ecosystems: the importance of land-use legacies

(2016) Michael P. Perring et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The relative importance of intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the decline of obligate seeder forests

(2016) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests - a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling

(2016) Markus Kautz et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Recovery dynamics and climate change effects to future New England forests

(2016) Matthew J. Duveneck et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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

(2016) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire–vegetation feedbacks and alternative states: common mechanisms of temperate forest vulnerability to fire in southern South America and New Zealand

(2016) T Kitzberger et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Review: Wind impacts on plant growth, mechanics and damage

(2016) Barry Gardiner et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

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

No growth stimulation of Canada’s boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO2fertilization

(2016) Martin P. Girardin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

More tornadoes in the most extreme U.S. tornado outbreaks

(2016) Michael K. Tippett et al.   SCIENCE

Impact of Forest Management on Species Richness: Global Meta-Analysis and Economic Trade-Offs

(2016) Abhishek Chaudhary et al.   Scientific Reports

Impacts of tropical selective logging on carbon storage and tree species richness: A meta-analysis

(2015) Philip A. Martin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Fire legacies impact conifer regeneration across environmental gradients in the U.S. northern Rockies

(2015) Kerry B. Kemp et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   NATURE

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Effects of large-scale deforestation on precipitation in the monsoon regions: Remote versus local effects

(2015) N. Devaraju et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

(2015) W. Matt Jolly et al.   Nature Communications

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

(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

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

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

Influence of Amazonian deforestation on the future evolution of regional surface fluxes, circulation, surface temperature and precipitation

(2014) Quentin Lejeune et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Disparate effects of global-change drivers on mountain conifer forests: warming-induced growth enhancement in young trees vs. CO2fertilization in old trees from wet sites

(2014) J. Julio Camarero et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Woody plant encroachment of grasslands: a comparison of terrestrial and wetland settings

(2014) Neil Saintilan et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

General patterns of acclimation of leaf respiration to elevated temperatures across biomes and plant types

(2014) Martijn Slot et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant-pollinator interactions and phenological change: what can we learn about climate impacts from experiments and observations?

(2014) Jessica R. K. Forrest   OIKOS

Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870

(2014) Hans Pretzsch et al.   Nature Communications

Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage

(2014) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

(2013) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Central European hardwood trees in a high-CO2future: synthesis of an 8-year forest canopy CO2enrichment project

(2013) Martin K.-F. Bader et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Drought predisposes piñon-juniper woodlands to insect attacks and mortality

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

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

(2013) Nate G. McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Elevated [CO2] does not ameliorate the negative effects of elevated temperature on drought-induced mortality inEucalyptus radiataseedlings

(2013) HONGLANG DUAN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Robust increases in severe thunderstorm environments in response to greenhouse forcing

(2013) N. S. Diffenbaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Global warming and changes in drought

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

Reconstructed forest age structure in Europe 1950–2010

(2012) T. Vilén et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Elevated CO2does not offset greater water stress predicted under climate change for native and exotic riparian plants

(2012) Laura G. Perry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global Decline in Large Old Trees

(2012) D. B. Lindenmayer et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Efficacy of tree defense physiology varies with bark beetle population density: a basis for positive feedback in eruptive species

(2011) Celia K. Boone et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands

(2011) G. C. Hurtt et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Multidimensional trade-offs in species responses to disturbance: implications for diversity in a subtropical forest

(2011) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGY

Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

(2011) Amy L. Angert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada

(2011) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Observed increase in local cooling effect of deforestation at higher latitudes

(2011) Xuhui Lee et al.   NATURE

Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought

(2011) J. Carnicer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st century

(2011) Anthony L. Westerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate change and plant regeneration from seed

(2010) JEFFREY L. WALCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Climatic warming disrupts recurrent Alpine insect outbreaks

(2010) D. M. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth

(2010) Sean M. McMahon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate

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

Hurricane Disturbance Alters Secondary Forest Recovery in Puerto Rico

(2009) Dan F.B. Flynn et al.   BIOTROPICA

Natural disturbance and human land use as determinants of tropical forest dynamics: results from a forest simulator

(2009) María Uriarte et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Abiotic and biotic drivers of seedling survival in a hurricane-impacted tropical forest

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Visible and invisible effects of hurricanes on forest ecosystems: an international review

(2008) A. E. LUGO   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

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

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

Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

(2008) Sebastiaan Luyssaert et al.   NATURE

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

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE