Post-fire resprouting oaks (genus: Quercus) exhibit plasticity in xylem vulnerability to drought

Coordination of physiological traits involved in drought-induced mortality of woody plants

(2015) Maurizio Mencuccini et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Bud protection: a key trait for species sorting in a forest-savanna mosaic

(2015) Tristan Charles-Dominique et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species

(2015) Sean M. Gleason et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Towards understanding resprouting at the global scale

(2015) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California: Denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks

(2015) Patrick J. McIntyre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Root resistance to cavitation is accurately measured using a centrifuge technique

(2015) R. B. Pratt et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Spatial and temporal variation in plant hydraulic traits and their relevance for climate change impacts on vegetation

(2014) William R. L. Anderegg   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The standard centrifuge method accurately measures vulnerability curves of long-vesselled olive stems

(2014) Uwe G. Hacke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought and resprouting plants

(2014) Melanie J. B. Zeppel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dynamics of leaf water relations components in co-occurring iso- and anisohydric conifer species

(2014) FREDERICK C. MEINZER et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

The high vulnerability of Quercus robur to drought at its southern margin paves the way for Quercus ilex

(2014) Morgane Urli et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

A Framework Phylogeny of the American Oak Clade Based on Sequenced RAD Data

(2014) Andrew L. Hipp et al.   PLoS One

Structural adjustments in resprouting trees drive differences in post-fire transpiration

(2014) R. H. Nolan et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Plant dieback under exceptional drought driven by elevation, not by plant traits, in Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA

(2014) Elizabeth F. Waring et al.   PeerJ

Tree mortality from a short-duration freezing event and global-change-type drought in a Southwestern piñon-juniper woodland, USA

(2014) Helen M. Poulos   PeerJ

Mortality of resprouting chaparral shrubs after a fire and during a record drought: physiological mechanisms and demographic consequences

(2013) R. Brandon Pratt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Limited genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity detected for cavitation resistance in a Mediterranean pine

(2013) Jean-Baptiste Lamy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Oak Bark Allometry and Fire Survival Strategies in the Chihuahuan Desert Sky Islands, Texas, USA

(2013) Dylan W. Schwilk et al.   PLoS One

Long-term functional plasticity in plant hydraulic architecture in response to supplemental moisture

(2012) G. von Arx et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Driving factors of a vegetation shift from Scots pine to pubescent oak in dry Alpine forests

(2012) Andreas Rigling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phenotypic and developmental plasticity of xylem in hybrid poplar saplings subjected to experimental drought, nitrogen fertilization, and shading

(2012) Lenka Plavcová et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

No evidence for an open vessel effect in centrifuge-based vulnerability curves of a long-vesselled liana (Vitis vinifera)

(2012) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

(2012) P. J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Xylem vulnerability to cavitation can be accurately characterised in species with long vessels using a centrifuge method

(2012) M. F. Tobin et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Exotic deer diminish post-fire resilience of native shrub communities on Santa Catalina Island, southern California

(2012) A. R. Ramirez et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Measurements of stem xylem hydraulic conductivity in the laboratory and field

(2012) Peter J. Melcher et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

(2012) Max A. Moritz et al.   Ecosphere

Rare pits, large vessels and extreme vulnerability to cavitation in a ring-porous tree species

(2011) Mairgareth A. Christman et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pathways for climate change effects on fire: Models, data, and uncertainties

(2011) Amy E. Hessl   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

A case-study of water transport in co-occurring ring- versus diffuse-porous trees: contrasts in water-status, conducting capacity, cavitation and vessel refilling

(2011) H. Taneda et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Contrasting drought survival strategies of sympatric willows (genus: Salix): consequences for coexistence and habitat specialization

(2011) J. A. Savage et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Genotypic variability and phenotypic plasticity of cavitation resistance in Fagus sylvatica L. across Europe

(2011) R. Wortemann et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Phenotypic plasticity in mesic populations of Pinus pinaster improves resistance to xylem embolism (P50) under severe drought

(2011) Leyre Corcuera et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Topographic influences on vegetation mosaics and tree diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Borderlands

(2010) Helen M. Poulos et al.   ECOLOGY

Photosynthetic, hydraulic and biomechanical responses of Juglans californica shoots to wildfire

(2010) Yasuhiro Utsumi et al.   OECOLOGIA

Variation in woody plant mortality and dieback from severe drought among soils, plant groups, and species within a northern Arizona ecotone

(2010) Dan F. Koepke et al.   OECOLOGIA

Xylem root and shoot hydraulics is linked to life history type in chaparral seedlings

(2009) Robert B. Pratt et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Hierarchical statistical modeling of xylem vulnerability to cavitation

(2009) Kiona Ogle et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Comparative community physiology: nonconvergence in water relations among three semi-arid shrub communities

(2008) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Safety and efficiency conflicts in hydraulic architecture: scaling from tissues to trees

(2008) JOHN S. SPERRY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT