Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

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

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

(2014) Kiona Ogle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diverse responses of forest growth to drought time-scales in the Northern Hemisphere

(2014) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Physiological and transcriptional memory in guard cells during repetitive dehydration stress

(2014) Laetitia Virlouvet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) Flurin Babst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conifer species adapt to low-rainfall climates by following one of two divergent pathways

(2014) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competition for Water and Light in Closed-Canopy Forests: A Tractable Model of Carbon Allocation with Implications for Carbon Sinks

(2013) Caroline E. Farrior et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

(2013) Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos et al.   NATURE

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

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

Above-ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites

(2013) Flurin Babst et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Little change in global drought over the past 60 years

(2012) Justin Sheffield et al.   NATURE

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

Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

(2012) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking definitions, mechanisms, and modeling of drought-induced tree death

(2012) William R.L. Anderegg et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Evolutionarily Stable Strategy Carbon Allocation to Foliage, Wood, and Fine Roots in Trees Competing for Light and Nitrogen: An Analytically Tractable, Individual-Based Model and Quantitative Comparisons to Data

(2011) Ray Dybzinski et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

(2011) Karl E. Taylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Characteristics and trends in various forms of the Palmer Drought Severity Index during 1900–2008

(2011) Aiguo Dai   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions

(2011) M. Hirota et al.   SCIENCE

The Global Extent and Determinants of Savanna and Forest as Alternative Biome States

(2011) A. C. Staver et al.   SCIENCE

Responses of terrestrial ecosystems and carbon budgets to current and future environmental variability

(2010) D. Medvigy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

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

Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

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

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

(2009) Y. Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest

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

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Prolonged suppression of ecosystem carbon dioxide uptake after an anomalously warm year

(2008) John A. Arnone III et al.   NATURE

Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   NATURE

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE