Size Matters a Lot: Drought-Affected Italian Oaks Are Smaller and Show Lower Growth Prior to Tree Death

Towards a common methodology for developing logistic tree mortality models based on ring-width data

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

High-intensity thinning treatments in mature Pinus halepensis plantations experiencing prolonged drought

(2016) Ailon Calev et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Wood anatomy and carbon-isotope discrimination support long-term hydraulic deterioration as a major cause of drought-induced dieback

(2016) Elena Pellizzari et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Discerning environmental factors affecting current tree growth in Central Europe

(2016) Emil Cienciala et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Importance of tree height and social position for drought-related stress on tree growth and mortality

(2016) Rüdiger Grote et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Novel Hydraulic Vulnerability Proxies for a Boreal Conifer Species Reveal That Opportunists May Have Lower Survival Prospects under Extreme Climatic Events

(2016) Sabine Rosner et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Past logging, drought and pathogens interact and contribute to forest dieback

(2015) Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Prior height, growth, and wood anatomy differently predispose to drought-induced dieback in two Mediterranean oak speciesk

(2015) J. Julio Camarero et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

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

(2015) Pierre Gentine et al.   Ecohydrology

The agony of choice: different empirical mortality models lead to sharply different future forest dynamics

(2015) Nicolas Bircher et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

What determines tree mortality in dry environments? a multi-perspective approach

(2015) Michael Dorman et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Tree rings provide early warning signals of jack pine mortality across a moisture gradient in the southern boreal forest

(2015) S D Mamet et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Factors affecting fall down rates of dead aspen (Populus tremuloides) biomass following severe drought in west-central Canada

(2015) Edward H. Ted Hogg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

To die or not to die: early warnings of tree dieback in response to a severe drought

(2015) J. Julio Camarero et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2015) L. Rowland et al.   NATURE

Leaf morphological and physiological adaptations of a deciduous oak (Quercus fagineaLam.) to the Mediterranean climate: a comparison with a closely related temperate species (Quercus roburL.)

(2015) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Evidence of vulnerability segmentation in a deciduous Mediterranean oak (Quercus subpyrenaica E. H. del Villar)

(2015) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

(2015) Nathan G. McDowell et al.   Nature Climate Change

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

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

Short- and long-term growth characteristics associated with tree mortality in southwestern mixed-conifer forests

(2014) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Drought induced decline could portend widespread pine mortality at the xeric ecotone in managed mediterranean pine-oak woodlands

(2014) Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Norway spruce physiological and anatomical predisposition to dieback

(2014) Rainer Hentschel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Evaluating spatial patterns of drought-induced tree mortality in a coastal California pine forest

(2014) Sara A. Baguskas et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2014) Tamir Klein   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Slow lifelong growth predisposes Populus tremuloides trees to mortality

(2014) Kathryn B. Ireland et al.   OECOLOGIA

Complementarity in mixed-species stands of Abies alba and Picea abies varies with climate, site quality and stand density

(2013) David I. Forrester et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Many ways to die - partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near-natural mixed deciduous forest

(2013) Frederic Holzwarth et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A retrospective, dual-isotope approach reveals individual predispositions to winter-drought induced tree dieback in the southernmost distribution limit of Scots pine

(2013) JORDI VOLTAS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses

(2013) SANNA SEVANTO et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Patterns and Drivers of Tree Mortality in Iberian Forests: Climatic Effects Are Modified by Competition

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   PLoS One

Species-specific climate response of oaks (Quercus spp.) under identical environmental conditions

(2013) TGM Sanders et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Prevalence, thresholds and the performance of presence-absence models

(2013) Callum R. Lawson et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How to quantify conduits in wood?

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

Seasonal and inter-annual variability of bud development as related to climate in two coexisting Mediterranean Quercus species

(2012) Arben Q. Alla et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Contrasting responses of radial growth and wood anatomy to climate in a Mediterranean ring-porous oak: implications for its future persistence or why the variance matters more than the mean

(2012) Arben Q. Alla et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Cloud shading and fog drip influence the metabolism of a coastal pine ecosystem

(2012) Mariah S. Carbone et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Early Warnings of Regime Shift When the Ecosystem Structure Is Unknown

(2012) William A. Brock et al.   PLoS One

Methods for Detecting Early Warnings of Critical Transitions in Time Series Illustrated Using Simulated Ecological Data

(2012) Vasilis Dakos et al.   PLoS One

Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple

(2012) David M.J.S. Bowman et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Temporal aspects of Quercus rubra decline and relationship to climate in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas

(2011) L.J. Haavik et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Early warnings of unknown nonlinear shifts: a nonparametric approach

(2011) S. R. Carpenter et al.   ECOLOGY

Growth patterns and sensitivity to climate predict silver fir decline in the Spanish Pyrenees

(2011) Juan Carlos Linares et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Associations between growth, wood anatomy, carbon isotope discrimination and mortality in a Quercus robur forest

(2011) T. Levanic et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Growth patterns in relation to drought-induced mortality at two Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sites in NE Iberian Peninsula

(2011) Ana-Maria Hereş et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

The core-microtome: A new tool for surface preparation on cores and time series analysis of varying cell parameters

(2009) Holger Gärtner et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Drought impact on forest growth and mortality in the southeast USA: an analysis using Forest Health and Monitoring data

(2009) Ryan J. Klos et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

Growth, carbon-isotope discrimination, and drought-associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect

(2009) NATE G. McDOWELL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Increased early growth rates decrease longevities of conifers in subalpine forests

(2009) Christof Bigler et al.   OIKOS

Size-dependent mortality in a Neotropical savanna tree: the role of height-related adjustments in hydraulic architecture and carbon allocation

(2009) YONG-JIANG ZHANG et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Relative size and stand age determine Pinus banksiana mortality

(2008) Han Y.H. Chen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Growth–mortality relationships as indicators of life-history strategies: a comparison of nine tree species in unmanaged European forests

(2008) Jan Wunder et al.   OIKOS

Rapid mortality of Populus tremuloides in southwestern Colorado, USA

(2007) James J. Worrall et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT