Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests

How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere?

(2021) Katharyn A. Duffy et al.   Science Advances

Hot drought reduces the effects of elevated CO 2 on tree water use efficiency and carbon metabolism

(2020) Benjamin Birami et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

(2020) Bernhard Schuldt et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling

(2020) Steven A. Kannenberg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

(2020) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   SCIENCE

Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

(2020) Nate G. McDowell et al.   SCIENCE

Agricultural risks from changing snowmelt

(2020) Yue Qin et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

(2020) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Record‐setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States

(2020) Philip E. Higuera et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A century of observations reveals increasing likelihood of continental-scale compound dry-hot extremes

(2020) Mohammad Reza Alizadeh et al.   Science Advances

Which trees die during drought? The key role of insect host‐tree selection

(2019) Nathan L. Stephenson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Dead or dying? Quantifying the point of no return from hydraulic failure in drought‐induced tree mortality

(2019) William M. Hammond et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Global importance of large-diameter trees

(2018) James A. Lutz et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality

(2018) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   Scientific Data

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns

(2018) A. T. Trugman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Chronic historical drought legacy exacerbates tree mortality and crown dieback during acute heatwave-compounded drought

(2018) George Matusick et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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

(2018) Katinka X. Ruthrof et al.   Scientific Reports

Tree mortality following drought in the central and southern Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.

(2018) Christopher J. Fettig et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Greater focus on water pools may improve our ability to understand and anticipate drought-induced mortality in plants

(2018) Jordi Martinez-Vilalta et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature response surfaces for mortality risk of tree species with future drought

(2017) Henry D Adams et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought-induced forest dieback

(2017) Alistair S. Jump 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

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

GlobalTreeSearch: The first complete global database of tree species and country distributions

(2017) E. Beech et al.   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Dependence of drivers affects risks associated with compound events

(2017) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   Science Advances

The ecology, distribution, conservation and management of large old trees

(2016) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Tree mortality from an exceptional drought spanning mesic to semiarid ecoregions

(2016) Georgianne W. Moore et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

(2016) T. R. Feldpausch et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

(2015) L. Rowland et al.   NATURE

Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

(2015) B. I. Cook et al.   Science Advances

The effect of fungal pathogens on the water and carbon economy of trees: implications for drought-induced mortality

(2014) Jonàs Oliva et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Responses of tree species to heat waves and extreme heat events

(2014) ROBERT TESKEY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

Drought-induced decline and mortality of silver fir differ among three sites in Southern France

(2013) Maxime Cailleret et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

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

The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off

(2013) David D. Breshears et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

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

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

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

Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

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Effects of rising atmospheric CO2 on evapotranspiration and soil moisture: A practical approach for the Netherlands

(2007) Bart Kruijt et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY