Are pine-oak mixed stands in Mediterranean mountains more resilient to drought than their monospecific counterparts?

Inter-specific tolerance to recurrent droughts of pine species revealed in saplings rather than adult trees

(2020) Enrique Andivia et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees

(2020) Lucía DeSoto et al.   Nature Communications

Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) – Site water supply and fertility modify the mixing effect

(2020) M. Steckel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on pre‐drought growth conditions

(2020) Arun K. Bose et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence of non‐stationary relationships between climate and forest responses: Increased sensitivity to climate change in Iberian forests

(2020) Julen Astigarraga et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting species decline but high sensitivity to increasing water stress on a mixed pine–oak ecotone

(2020) Guillermo Gea‐Izquierdo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Quantifying Growth Responses of Trees to Drought—a Critique of Commonly Used Resilience Indices and Recommendations for Future Studies

(2020) Julia Schwarz et al.   Current Forestry Reports

Land-Use Legacies and Climate Change as a Double Challenge to Oak Forest Resilience: Mismatches of Geographical and Ecological Rear Edges

(2020) A. J. Pérez-Luque et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe

(2020) M. Pardos et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Stand growth and structure of mixed-species and monospecific stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Q. robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) analysed along a productivity gradient through Europe

(2019) H. Pretzsch et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Standardized drought indices in ecological research: Why one size does not fit all

(2019) Christian S. Zang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effect of tree diversity on the resistance and recovery of forest stands in the French Alps may depend on species differences in hydraulic features

(2019) M. Jourdan et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Classification and mapping of Spanish Mediterranean mixed forests

(2019) R Sánchez de Dios et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Drought sensitivity and stem growth variation of nine alien and native tree species on a productive forest site in Germany

(2018) Nils Hoffmann et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Positive biodiversity–productivity relationships in forests: climate matters

(2018) H. Jactel et al.   Biology Letters

Forest management for adaptation to climate change in the Mediterranean basin: A synthesis of evidence

(2018) Albert Vilà-Cabrera et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

(2018) Antonio Gazol et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional diversity differently shapes growth resilience to drought for co-existing pine species

(2018) Elena Granda et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Diversity and forest productivity in a changing climate

(2018) Christian Ammer   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2018) X. Serra-Maluquer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Disentangling the relative role of climate change on tree growth in an extreme Mediterranean environment

(2018) Jaime Madrigal-González et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Having the right neighbors: how tree species diversity modulates drought impacts on forests

(2018) Charlotte Grossiord   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

(2018) Wolfgang Cramer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Resilience to drought in a dry forest: Insights from demographic rates

(2017) Jaime Madrigal-González et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Climate- and successional-related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality

(2017) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe?

(2017) Jonathan Spinoni et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

(2017) Miren del Río et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant litter mixture partly mitigates the negative effects of extended drought on soil biota and litter decomposition in a Mediterranean oak forest

(2017) Mathieu Santonja et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Contrasting ecophysiological strategies related to drought: the case of a mixed stand of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and a submediterranean oak (Quercus subpyrenaica)

(2017) Paula Martín-Gómez et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations

(2017) Jaime Madrigal-González et al.   Nature Communications

Xylem and Leaf Functional Adjustments to Drought in Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica at Their Elevational Boundary

(2017) Laura Fernández-de-Uña et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Tree species identity mediates mechanisms of top soil carbon sequestration in a Norway spruce and European beech mixed forest

(2016) Enrique Andivia et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Heavy and frequent thinning promotes drought adaptation inPinus sylvestrisforests

(2016) Julia A. Sohn et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Drought impacts on tree growth of two pine species along an altitudinal gradient and their use as early-warning signals of potential shifts in tree species distributions

(2016) Laura Marqués et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dynamics of competition over water in a mixed oak-pine Mediterranean forest: Spatio-temporal and physiological components

(2016) Jorge del Castillo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an extreme drought

(2016) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe

(2016) Jaime Madrigal-González et al.   Scientific Reports

Growth and yield of mixed versus pure stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) analysed along a productivity gradient through Europe

(2015) H. Pretzsch et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Effects of stand composition and tree size on resistance and resilience to drought in sessile oak and Scots pine

(2015) Morgane Merlin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Overyielding in mixed forests decreases with site productivity

(2015) Maude Toïgo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2015) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

What do you mean, ‘resilient’?

(2015) Dave Hodgson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

Stand Competition Determines How Different Tree Species Will Cope with a Warming Climate

(2015) Laura Fernández-de-Uña et al.   PLoS One

Temporal stability in forest productivity increases with tree diversity due to asynchrony in species dynamics

(2014) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Canopy space filling and tree crown morphology in mixed-species stands compared with monocultures

(2014) Hans Pretzsch   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought induced decline could portend widespread pine mortality at the xeric ecotone in managed mediterranean pine-oak woodlands

(2014) Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Competition for light and water play contrasting roles in driving diversity-productivity relationships in Iberian forests

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

European beech grows better and is less drought sensitive in mixed than in pure stands: tree neighbourhood effects on radial increment

(2014) Inga Mölder et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Local Climate Forces Instability in Long-Term Productivity of a Mediterranean Oak Along Climatic Gradients

(2013) Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Does Drought Influence the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Boreal Forests?

(2013) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Crown plasticity reduces inter-tree competition in a mixed broadleaved forest

(2013) Fleur Longuetaud et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Growth projections reveal local vulnerability of Mediterranean oaks with rising temperatures

(2013) Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mixed stands reduce Abies alba tree-ring sensitivity to summer drought in the Vosges mountains, western Europe

(2013) F. Lebourgeois et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The spatial and temporal dynamics of species interactions in mixed-species forests: From pattern to process

(2013) David I. Forrester   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Climate change's impact on key ecosystem services and the human well-being they support in the US

(2013) Erik J Nelson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Structural crown properties of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) and European beech (Fagus sylvatica [L.]) in mixed versus pure stands revealed by terrestrial laser scanning

(2013) Dominik Bayer et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Higher levels of multiple ecosystem services are found in forests with more tree species

(2013) Lars Gamfeldt et al.   Nature Communications

The effect of size and competition on tree growth rate in old-growth coniferous forests

(2012) Adrian Das   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Water release through plant roots: new insights into its consequences at the plant and ecosystem level

(2012) Iván Prieto et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resistance of European tree species to drought stress in mixedversuspure forests: evidence of stress release by inter-specific facilitation

(2012) H. Pretzsch et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

Evidence of hydraulic lift in a young beech and oak mixed forest using 18O soil water labelling

(2011) Marion Zapater et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Statistical and visual crossdating in R using the dplR library

(2010) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Can drought tolerance of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) be increased through thinning?

(2010) Martin Kohler et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

(2010) Alain Paquette et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The influence of mixed tree plantations on the nutrition of individual species: a review

(2010) A. E. Richards et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Comparing volume growth in pure and mixed stands of Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica

(2009) Miren Río et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Climate change impacts, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of European forest ecosystems

(2009) Marcus Lindner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Present and future extension of the Iberian submediterranean territories as determined from the distribution of marcescent oaks

(2009) Rut Sánchez de Dios et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Historical and recent changes in the Spanish forests: A socio-economic process

(2009) María Valbuena-Carabaña et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

When is One Core per Tree Sufficient to Characterize Stand Attributes? Results of a Pinus ponderosa Case Study

(2009) C.W. Woodall   Tree-Ring Research

A Theory-Driven Approach to Tree-Ring Standardization: Defining the Biological Trend from Expected Basal Area Increment

(2009) Franco Biondi et al.   Tree-Ring Research

Response of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestrisL.) and pubescent oak (Quercus pubescensWilld.) to soil and atmospheric water deficits under Mediterranean mountain climate

(2008) Rafael Poyatos et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE