Tropical tall forests are more sensitive and vulnerable to drought than short forests

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Coarse woody debris are buffering mortality-induced carbon losses to the atmosphere in tropical forests

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Mapping global forest canopy height through integration of GEDI and Landsat data

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Hydraulic traits are coordinated with maximum plant height at the global scale

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Hydraulic traits explain differential responses of Amazonian forests to the 2015 El Nino‐induced drought

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

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Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth

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Predominance of abiotic drivers in the relationship between species diversity and litterfall production in a tropical karst seasonal rainforest

(2019) Yili Guo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Seasonal patterns of deposition litterfall in a seasonal dry tropical forest

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Can vegetation optical depth reflect changes in leaf water potential during soil moisture dry-down events?

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Novel Representation of Leaf Phenology Improves Simulation of Amazonian Evergreen Forest Photosynthesis in a Land Surface Model

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Tree height matters

(2018) Paulo Brando   Nature Geoscience

Tall Amazonian forests are less sensitive to precipitation variability

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El Niño drought increased canopy turnover in Amazon forests

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Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

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L-band vegetation optical depth seasonal metrics for crop yield assessment

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Linking El Niño Southern Oscillation for early drought detection in tropical climates: The Ecuadorian coast

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TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

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Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands

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Genomic effects of population collapse in a critically endangered ironwood tree Ostrya rehderiana

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Light-driven growth in Amazon evergreen forests explained by seasonal variations of vertical canopy structure

(2017) Hao Tang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

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

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Tree height strongly affects estimates of water-use efficiency responses to climate and CO2 using isotopes

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Interacting Effects of Leaf Water Potential and Biomass on Vegetation Optical Depth

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Climate drivers of the Amazon forest greening

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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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Remotely sensed resilience of tropical forests

(2016) Jan Verbesselt et al.   Nature Climate Change

An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation

(2015) Pierre Gentine et al.   Ecohydrology

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

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Death from drought in tropical forests is triggered by hydraulics not carbon starvation

(2015) L. Rowland et al.   NATURE

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

(2015) Kaiyu Guan et al.   Nature Geoscience

The role of defoliation and root rot pathogen infection in driving the mode of drought-related physiological decline in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)

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Recovery of Physiological Traits in Saplings of Invasive Bischofia Tree Compared with Three Species Native to the Bonin Islands under Successive Drought and Irrigation Cycles

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A two-fold increase of carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature variations

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

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Seasonal coupling of canopy structure and function in African tropical forests and its environmental controls

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Influence of Seasonal Variations in Soil Water Availability on Gas Exchange of Tropical Canopy Trees

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Detection of Large-Scale Forest Canopy Change in Pan-Tropical Humid Forests 2000–2009 With the SeaWinds Ku-Band Scatterometer

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Forest mortality due to drought: latest insights, evidence and unresolved questions on physiological pathways and consequences of tree death

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Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy

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Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

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Relationships between phenology, radiation and precipitation in the Amazon region

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The 2010 Amazon Drought

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Will a 385 million year-struggle for light become a struggle for water and for carbon? - How trees may cope with more frequent climate change-type drought events

(2010) HENRIK HARTMANN   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A New Global 0.5° Gridded Dataset (1901–2006) of a Multiscalar Drought Index: Comparison with Current Drought Index Datasets Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index

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Effect of 7 yr of experimental drought on vegetation dynamics and biomass storage of an eastern Amazonian rainforest

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Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

(2010) Oliver L. Phillips et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake

(2010) Daniel Markewitz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Remote sensing detection of droughts in Amazonian forest canopies

(2010) Liana O. Anderson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality are far from being resolved

(2010) Anna Sala et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modeling decay rates of dead wood in a neotropical forest

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Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

(2009) Y. Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

(2009) O. L. Phillips et al.   SCIENCE

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