Upscaling the effect of traits in response to drought: The relative importance of safety–efficiency and acquisitive–conservation functional axes

Small and slow is safe: On the drought tolerance of tropical tree species

(2022) Joannès Guillemot et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species’ growth response to drought across biomes

(2022) Xavier Serra‐Maluquer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide

(2022) Henrik Hartmann et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Hydraulic traits are not robust predictors of tree species stem growth during a severe drought in a wet tropical forest

(2022) Chris M. Smith‐Martin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought

(2022) Tsun Fung Au et al.   Nature Climate Change

Legacy effects of drought on tree growth responses to hurricanes

(2021) María Natalia Umaña et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Tree recruitment is determined by stand structure and shade tolerance with uncertain role of climate and water relations

(2021) Yannek Käber et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Alternative designs and tropical tree seedling growth performance landscapes

(2020) Samantha J. Worthy et al.   ECOLOGY

A catastrophic tropical drought kills hydraulically vulnerable tree species

(2020) Jennifer S. Powers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2020) Anna T. Trugman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tree seedling trait optimization and growth in response to local‐scale soil and light variability

(2020) María Natalia Umaña et al.   ECOLOGY

Diverging functional strategies but high sensitivity to an extreme drought in tropical dry forests

(2020) Roy González‐M. et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Traits and trade-offs of wood anatomy between trunks and branches in tropical dry forest species

(2019) Esperanza Pulido-Rodríguez et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Disentangling the effects of environment and ontogeny on tree functional dimensions for congeneric species in tropical forests

(2019) Claire Fortunel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Triggers of tree mortality under drought

(2018) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones

(2017) Michael J. O'Brien et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Functional traits as predictors of vital rates across the life cycle of tropical trees

(2016) Marco D. Visser et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Strong 2015–2016 El Niño and implication to global ecosystems from space data

(2016) Felix Kogan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Conflicting demands on angiosperm xylem: Tradeoffs among storage, transport and biomechanics

(2016) R. Brandon Pratt et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Water potential regulation, stomatal behaviour and hydraulic transport under drought: deconstructing the iso/anisohydric concept

(2016) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Practical Bayesian model evaluation using leave-one-out cross-validation and WAIC

(2016) Aki Vehtari et al.   STATISTICS AND COMPUTING

The Impacts of Droughts in Tropical Forests

(2016) Richard T. Corlett   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Can functional traits predict plant community response to global change?

(2016) Sarah Kimball et al.   Ecosphere

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional traits variation explains the distribution of Aextoxicon punctatum (Aextoxicaceae) in pronounced moisture gradients within fog-dependent forest fragments

(2015) Beatriz Salgado-Negret et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

Broad Anatomical Variation within a Narrow Wood Density Range—A Study of Twig Wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms

(2015) Kasia Ziemińska et al.   PLoS One

The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Diverging drought-tolerance strategies explain tree species distribution along a fog-dependent moisture gradient in a temperate rain forest

(2013) Beatriz Salgado Negret et al.   OECOLOGIA

Species distributions in response to individual soil nutrients and seasonal drought across a community of tropical trees

(2013) R. Condit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How to quantify conduits in wood?

(2013) Alexander Scholz et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Growth Strategies of Tropical Tree Species: Disentangling Light and Size Effects

(2011) Nadja Rüger et al.   PLoS One

The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off

(2011) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Xylem function and growth rate interact to determine recovery rates after exposure to extreme water deficit

(2010) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

(2010) LARS MARKESTEIJN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interspecific relationships among growth, mortality and xylem traits of woody species from New Zealand

(2009) Sabrina E. Russo et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

El Niño–Induced Tropical Droughts in Climate Change Projections

(2009) Caio A. S. Coelho et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance

(2009) Lars Markesteijn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Recruitment patterns following a severe drought: long-term compositional shifts in Patagonian forests

(2008) María L. Suarez et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

ARE FUNCTIONAL TRAITS GOOD PREDICTORS OF DEMOGRAPHIC RATES? EVIDENCE FROM FIVE NEOTROPICAL FORESTS

(2008) L. Poorter et al.   ECOLOGY

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