Extreme heat increases stomatal conductance and drought‐induced mortality risk in vulnerable plant species

Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?

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Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves

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Water availability influences thermal safety margins for leaves

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Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

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High water use in desert plants exposed to extreme heat

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Trait velocities reveal that mortality has driven widespread coordinated shifts in forest hydraulic trait composition

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Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

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Photosynthetic heat tolerances and extreme leaf temperatures

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Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

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Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

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Range size and growth temperature influence Eucalyptus species responses to an experimental heatwave

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How do stomata respond to water status?

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A stomatal safety-efficiency trade-off constrains responses to leaf dehydration

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Optimal stomatal drought response shaped by competition for water and hydraulic risk can explain plant trait covariation

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Increasing impacts of extreme droughts on vegetation productivity under climate change

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

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Plasticity of photosynthetic heat tolerance in plants adapted to thermally contrasting biomes

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Triggers of tree mortality under drought

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Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses

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Stronger cooling effects of transpiration and leaf physical traits of plants from a hot dry habitat than from a hot wet habitat

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

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Does the turgor loss point characterize drought response in dryland plants?

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

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Temperature response of CO2 exchange in three tropical tree species

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Stomatal acclimation to vapour pressure deficit doubles transpiration of small tree seedlings with warming

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The influence of leaf size and shape on leaf thermal dynamics: does theory hold up under natural conditions?

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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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The correlations and sequence of plant stomatal, hydraulic, and wilting responses to drought

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Photosynthesis and isoprene emission from trees along an urban-rural gradient in Texas

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Using modern plant trait relationships between observed and theoretical maximum stomatal conductance and vein density to examine patterns of plant macroevolution

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Apoplastic water fraction and rehydration techniques introduce significant errors in measurements of relative water content and osmotic potential in plant leaves

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Predicting plant vulnerability to drought in biodiverse regions using functional traits

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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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The variability of stomatal sensitivity to leaf water potential across tree species indicates a continuum between isohydric and anisohydric behaviours

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Do thick leaves avoid thermal damage in critically low wind speeds?

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Rapid determination of comparative drought tolerance traits: using an osmometer to predict turgor loss point

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

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Hydraulic failure and tree dieback are associated with high wood density in a temperate forest under extreme drought

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An overview of models of stomatal conductance at the leaf level

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When it is too hot for photosynthesis: heat-induced instability of photosynthesis in relation to respiratory burst, cell permeability changes and H2O2 formation

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A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

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