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Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas

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Mapping ‘hydroscapes’ along the iso- to anisohydric continuum of stomatal regulation of plant water status

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A belowground perspective on the drought sensitivity of forests: Towards improved understanding and simulation

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Plant hydraulics improves and topography mediates prediction of aspen mortality in southwestern USA

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

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Canopy foliation and area as predictors of mortality risk from episodic drought for individual trees of Ashe juniper

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Mechanical Failure of Fine Root Cortical Cells Initiates Plant Hydraulic Decline during Drought

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Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

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Quantifying drought-induced tree mortality in the open canopy woodlands of central Texas

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An interdisciplinary approach to better assess global change impacts and drought vulnerability on forest dynamics

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A test of the hydraulic vulnerability segmentation hypothesis in angiosperm and conifer tree species

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

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

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Responses of two semiarid conifer tree species to reduced precipitation and warming reveal new perspectives for stomatal regulation

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Anthropogenic warming has increased drought risk in California

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Predicting plant vulnerability to drought in biodiverse regions using functional traits

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Interdependence of chronic hydraulic dysfunction and canopy processes can improve integrated models of tree response to drought

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Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

(2015) Nathan 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

How unusual is the 2012-2014 California drought?

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

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Carbohydrate dynamics and mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland under three future precipitation scenarios

(2014) LEE T. DICKMAN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

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Shoot desiccation and hydraulic failure in temperate woody angiosperms during an extreme summer drought

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Nonstructural leaf carbohydrate dynamics ofPinus edulisduring drought-induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism

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

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The impacts of water stress on phloem transport in Douglas-fir trees

(2013) D. R. Woodruff   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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Hydraulic responses to extreme drought conditions in three co-dominant tree species in shallow soil over bedrock

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Long-Term Effects of Fire, Livestock Herbivory Removal, and Weather Variability in Texas Semiarid Savanna

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How reliable is the double-ended pressure sleeve technique for assessing xylem vulnerability to cavitation in woody angiosperms?

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Effects of the hydraulic coupling between xylem and phloem on diurnal phloem diameter variation

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(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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(2009) José F. Negrón et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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(2009) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Linking phloem function to structure: Analysis with a coupled xylem–phloem transport model

(2009) T. Hölttä et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Hydraulic traits are influenced by phylogenetic history in the drought-resistant, invasive genus Juniperus (Cupressaceae)

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

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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

Hydraulic Failure Defines the Recovery and Point of Death in Water-Stressed Conifers

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