Linking Forest Flammability and Plant Vulnerability to Drought

ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

(2020) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Implementing Plant Hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

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

More than iso/anisohydry: Hydroscapes integrate plant water-use and drought tolerance traits in ten eucalypt species from contrasting climates

(2019) Ximeng Li et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Desiccation time during drought is highly predictable across species of Eucalyptus from contrasting climates

(2019) Chris J. Blackman et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf age and eCO2 both influence photosynthesis by increasing light harvesting in mature Eucalyptus tereticornis at EucFACE

(2019) Agnieszka Wujeska-Klause et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A drought indicator reflecting ecosystem responses to water availability: The Normalized Ecosystem Drought Index

(2018) Kuang-Yu Chang et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

On the effects of wildfires on precipitation in Southern Africa

(2018) Fernando De Sales et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Deconstructing the King megafire

(2018) Janice L. Coen et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fire-induced deforestation in drought-prone Mediterranean forests: drivers and unknowns from leaves to communities

(2018) Asaf Karavani et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

How well do meteorological drought indices predict live fuel moisture content (LFMC)? An assessment for wildfire research and operations in Mediterranean ecosystems

(2018) Julien Ruffault et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Physiological drought responses improve predictions of live fuel moisture dynamics in a Mediterranean forest

(2018) Rachael H. Nolan et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Triggers of tree mortality under drought

(2018) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

On the minimum leaf conductance: its role in models of plant water use, and ecological and environmental controls

(2018) Remko A. Duursma et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Are litter decomposition and fire linked through plant species traits?

(2017) Johannes H. C. Cornelissen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Future changes in climatic water balance determine potential for transformational shifts in Australian fire regimes

(2016) Matthias M Boer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Do insect outbreaks reduce the severity of subsequent forest fires?

(2016) Garrett W Meigs et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Seasonal variations in red pine ( Pinus resinosa ) and jack pine ( Pinus banksiana ) foliar physio-chemistry and their potential influence on stand-scale wildland fire behavior

(2016) W. Matt Jolly et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Large-scale, dynamic transformations in fuel moisture drive wildfire activity across southeastern Australia

(2016) R. H. Nolan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Canopy leaf area of a mature evergreenEucalyptuswoodland does not respond to elevated atmospheric [CO2] but tracks water availability

(2016) Remko A. Duursma et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Too much, too soon? A review of the effects of increasing wildfire frequency on tree mortality and regeneration in temperate eucalypt forests

(2016) Thomas A. Fairman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

How drought-induced forest die-off alters microclimate and increases fuel loadings and fire potentials

(2016) Katinka X. Ruthrof et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Does leaf shedding protect stems from cavitation during seasonal droughts? A test of the hydraulic fuse hypothesis

(2016) Brett T. Wolfe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

(2015) Neal J Enright et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species

(2015) Saskia Grootemaat et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Area burned in the western United States is unaffected by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks

(2015) Sarah J. Hart et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Leaf hydraulic vulnerability to drought is linked to site water availability across a broad range of species and climates

(2014) Chris J. Blackman et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Global analysis of plasticity in turgor loss point, a key drought tolerance trait

(2014) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

De-coupling seasonal changes in water content and dry matter to predict live conifer foliar moisture content

(2014) W. Matt Jolly et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

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

Differences in Leaf Flammability, Leaf Traits and Flammability-Trait Relationships between Native and Exotic Plant Species of Dry Sclerophyll Forest

(2013) Brad R. Murray et al.   PLoS One

Regional estimation of woodland moisture content by inverting Radiative Transfer Models

(2013) Sara Jurdao et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A global review of remote sensing of live fuel moisture content for fire danger assessment: Moving towards operational products

(2013) Marta Yebra et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Xylem embolism threshold for catastrophic hydraulic failure in angiosperm trees

(2013) M. Urli et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The determinants of leaf turgor loss point and prediction of drought tolerance of species and biomes: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant flammability experiments offer limited insight into vegetation-fire dynamics interactions

(2012) Paulo M. Fernandes et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

(2012) Max A. Moritz et al.   Ecosphere

Using remotely-sensed fuel connectivity patterns as a tool for fire danger monitoring

(2011) G. Caccamo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Monitoring live fuel moisture content of heathland, shrubland and sclerophyll forest in south-eastern Australia using MODIS data

(2011) G. Caccamo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

A biogeographic model of fire regimes in Australia: current and future implications

(2010) R. A. Bradstock   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The initiation of fire spread in shrubland fuels recreated in the laboratory

(2010) Matt P. Plucinski et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

A Burning Story: The Role of Fire in the History of Life

(2009) Juli G. Pausas et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Vulnerability of carbon storage in North American boreal forests to wildfires during the 21st century

(2009) M. S. BALSHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Critical live fuel moisture in chaparral ecosystems: a threshold for fire activity and its relationship to antecedent precipitation

(2009) Philip E. Dennison et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST