Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

Shifts in biomass and productivity for a subtropical dry forest in response to simulated elevated hurricane disturbances

(2017) Jennifer A Holm et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Differences in xylem and leaf hydraulic traits explain differences in drought tolerance among mature Amazon rainforest trees

(2017) Thomas L. Powell et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluation of climate-related carbon turnover processes in global vegetation models for boreal and temperate forests

(2017) Martin Thurner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Role of tree size in moist tropical forest carbon cycling and water deficit responses

(2017) Victoria Meakem et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Post-fire effects in xylem hydraulics of Picea abies , Pinus sylvestris and Fagus sylvatica

(2017) Andreas Bär et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2concentration alleviate forest mortality risk

(2017) Yanlan Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

(2017) Martin J. P. Sullivan et al.   Scientific Reports

Incorporating variability in simulations of seasonally forced phenology using integral projection models

(2017) Devin W. Goodsman et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

(2017) Henry D. Adams et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Mechanical vulnerability and resistance to snapping and uprooting for Central Amazon tree species

(2016) G.H.P.M. Ribeiro et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Probability of emergence of novel temperature regimes at different levels of cumulative carbon emissions

(2016) Noah S Diffenbaugh et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Changing Amazon biomass and the role of atmospheric CO2concentration, climate, and land use

(2016) Andrea D. de Almeida Castanho et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Amazon forest response to repeated droughts

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

Effects of experimental fuel additions on fire intensity and severity: unexpected carbon resilience of a neotropical forest

(2016) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above-ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models

(2016) Michelle O. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests - a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling

(2016) Markus Kautz et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dry-season greening of Amazon forests

(2016) Scott R. Saleska et al.   NATURE

Biomass turnover time in terrestrial ecosystems halved by land use

(2016) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   Nature Geoscience

Pragmatic hydraulic theory predicts stomatal responses to climatic water deficits

(2016) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Does leaf shedding protect stems from cavitation during seasonal droughts? A test of the hydraulic fuse hypothesis

(2016) Brett T. Wolfe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The correlations and sequence of plant stomatal, hydraulic, and wilting responses to drought

(2016) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

(2016) J. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake

(2016) Trevor F Keenan et al.   Nature Communications

Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity

(2016) Boris Sakschewski et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment

(2015) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Threshold Responses to Soil Moisture Deficit by Trees and Soil in Tropical Rain Forests: Insights from Field Experiments

(2015) Patrick Meir et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Direct effects of lightning in temperate forests: a review and preliminary survey in a hemlock–hardwood forest of the northern United States

(2015) Stephen P. Yanoviak et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Projected changes of rainfall seasonality and dry spells in a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario

(2015) Salvatore Pascale et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Landscape fragmentation, severe drought, and the new Amazon forest fire regime

(2015) Ane A. Alencar et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Long-term changes in liana loads and tree dynamics in a Malaysian forest

(2015) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate change-associated tree mortality increases without decreasing water availability

(2015) Yong Luo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Remote-sensing constraints on South America fire traits by Bayesian fusion of atmospheric and surface data

(2015) A. Anthony Bloom et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Sea Surface Temperature Warming Patterns and Future Vegetation Change

(2015) Sara A. Rauscher et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Dynamic response of a Philippine dipterocarp forest to typhoon disturbance

(2015) Sandra L. Yap et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Drought impact on forest carbon dynamics and fluxes in Amazonia

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   NATURE

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Geoscience

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

(2015) Kaiyu Guan et al.   Nature Geoscience

What plant hydraulics can tell us about responses to climate-change droughts

(2015) John S. Sperry et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2015) Maurizio Mencuccini 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

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

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

The importance of including lianas in global vegetation models

(2015) Hans Verbeeck et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lianas reduce carbon accumulation and storage in tropical forests

(2015) Geertje M. F. van der Heijden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermophilization of adult and juvenile tree communities in the northern tropical Andes

(2015) Alvaro Duque et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ecosystem heterogeneity determines the ecological resilience of the Amazon to climate change

(2015) Naomi M. Levine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Projections of future meteorological drought and wet periods in the Amazon

(2015) Philip B. Duffy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanisms of piñon pine mortality after severe drought: a retrospective study of mature trees

(2015) Monica L. Gaylord et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

(2015) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

(2015) W. Matt Jolly et al.   Nature Communications

Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

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

Projected strengthening of Amazonian dry season by constrained climate model simulations

(2015) Juan P. Boisier 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

Allocation trade-offs dominate the response of tropical forest growth to seasonal and interannual drought

(2014) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOLOGY

A general ecophysiological framework for modelling the impact of pests and pathogens on forest ecosystems.

(2014) Michael C. Dietze et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global analysis of plasticity in turgor loss point, a key drought tolerance trait

(2014) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

(2014) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade

(2014) Liming Zhou et al.   NATURE

Drought sensitivity of Amazonian carbon balance revealed by atmospheric measurements

(2014) L. V. Gatti et al.   NATURE

No growth stimulation of tropical trees by 150 years of CO2 fertilization but water-use efficiency increased

(2014) Peter van der Sleen et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

(2014) William R. L. Anderegg   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Water-use advantage for lianas over trees in tropical seasonal forests

(2014) Ya-Jun Chen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Large-Scale Wind Disturbances Promote Tree Diversity in a Central Amazon Forest

(2014) Daniel Magnabosco Marra et al.   PLoS One

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

(2014) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

On Tropical Forests and Their Pests

(2014) Phyllis D. Coley et al.   SCIENCE

Size and frequency of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance

(2014) Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo et al.   Nature Communications

Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels

(2014) Michael J. O’Brien et al.   Nature Climate Change

Contrasting hydraulic strategies in two tropical lianas and their host trees

(2013) Daniel M. Johnson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Trait-mediated environmental filtering drives assembly at biogeographic transition zones

(2013) Brigitte Sommer et al.   ECOLOGY

Intensification of the Amazon hydrological cycle over the last two decades

(2013) M. Gloor et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Replicated throughfall exclusion experiment in an Indonesian perhumid rainforest: wood production, litter fall and fine root growth under simulated drought

(2013) Gerald Moser et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

High temperature causes negative whole-plant carbon balance under mild drought

(2013) Junbin Zhao et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Confronting model predictions of carbon fluxes with measurements of Amazon forests subjected to experimental drought

(2013) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework

(2013) Nate G. McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Gap formation and carbon cycling in the Brazilian Amazon: measurement using high-resolution optical remote sensing and studies in large forest plots

(2013) Fernando D.B. Espírito-Santo et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Residence times of woody biomass in tropical forests

(2013) David Galbraith et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

(2013) Andrew D. Friend et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The steady-state mosaic of disturbance and succession across an old-growth Central Amazon forest landscape

(2013) J. Q. Chambers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Downscaling CMIP5 climate models shows increased tropical cyclone activity over the 21st century

(2013) K. A. Emanuel   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increased dry-season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection

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

Global warming and changes in drought

(2013) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   Nature Climate Change

Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change

(2012) Akira S. Mori et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The determinants of leaf turgor loss point and prediction of drought tolerance of species and biomes: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Megan K. Bartlett et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Drought-induced shifts in the floristic and functional composition of tropical forests in Ghana

(2012) Sophie Fauset et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

(2012) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

The Amazon basin in transition

(2012) Eric A. Davidson et al.   NATURE

Moving beyond the cambium necrosis hypothesis of post-fire tree mortality: cavitation and deformation of xylem in forest fires

(2012) S. T. Michaletz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Hydraulic limits preceding mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland under experimental drought

(2012) JENNIFER A. PLAUT et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Persistent effects of a severe drought on Amazonian forest canopy

(2012) S. Saatchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates

(2011) Nathan L. Stephenson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Directional changes in the species composition of a tropical forest

(2011) Kenneth J. Feeley et al.   ECOLOGY

Increasing liana abundance and biomass in tropical forests: emerging patterns and putative mechanisms

(2011) Stefan A. Schnitzer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The drought of 2010 in the context of historical droughts in the Amazon region

(2011) Jose A. Marengo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

(2011) Paulo M. Brando et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Height Above the Nearest Drainage – a hydrologically relevant new terrain model

(2011) A.D. Nobre et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Determinants of mortality across a tropical lowland rainforest community

(2011) Nadja Rüger et al.   OIKOS

The 2010 Amazon Drought

(2011) S. L. Lewis et al.   SCIENCE

Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

(2011) Y. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

(2011) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A drought-induced pervasive increase in tree mortality across Canada's boreal forests

(2011) Changhui Peng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Simulating fire regimes in the Amazon in response to climate change and deforestation

(2010) Rafaella Almeida Silvestrini et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

(2010) Christopher Baraloto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The impact of lianas on 10 years of tree growth and mortality on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

(2010) Laura L. Ingwell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

(2010) Rosie Fisher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Predicting moisture dynamics of fine understory fuels in a moist tropical rainforest system: results of a pilot study undertaken to identify proxy variables useful for rating fire danger

(2010) David Ray et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Shifts in plant respiration and carbon use efficiency at a large-scale drought experiment in the eastern Amazon

(2010) D. B. Metcalfe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2010) Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-mortality relationships for tropical forests

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

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

(2010) David Galbraith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fire as a selective force in a Bornean tropical everwet forest

(2010) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   OECOLOGIA

Seasonal and interannual variability of climate and vegetation indices across the Amazon

(2010) P. M. Brando et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

(2009) DAVID B. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How do trees die? Mode of death in northern Amazonia

(2009) Kuo-Jung Chao et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

(2009) P. J. van Mantgem et al.   SCIENCE

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon

(2008) MARK A. COCHRANE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Growth and wood density predict tree mortality in Amazon forests

(2008) Kuo-Jung Chao et al.   JOURNAL OF 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

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees

(2008) J. Lloyd et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Towards quantifying uncertainty in predictions of Amazon 'dieback'

(2008) C. Huntingford et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES