Lagged mortality among tree species four years after an exceptional drought in east Texas

Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality

(2018) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought

(2018) Daniel M. Johnson et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Detecting and quantifying standing dead tree structural loss with reconstructed tree models using voxelized terrestrial lidar data

(2018) Eric B. Putman et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Predicting Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances and Their Mitigation

(2018) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Why have southern pine beetle outbreaks declined in the southeastern U.S. with the expansion of intensive pine silviculture? A brief review of hypotheses

(2017) Christopher Asaro et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2017) Amanda M. Schwantes et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Density-dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought

(2017) Alessandra Bottero et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Competition amplifies drought stress in forests across broad climatic and compositional gradients

(2017) Kelly E. Gleason et al.   Ecosphere

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

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

Multiyear drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in southeastern U.S. forests

(2016) Aaron B. Berdanier et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Tree mortality from an exceptional drought spanning mesic to semiarid ecoregions

(2016) Georgianne W. Moore et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Long-term climate and competition explain forest mortality patterns under extreme drought

(2016) Derek J. N. Young et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Wood decomposition by microbes and macroinvertebrates, and soil CO 2 efflux vary in response to throughfall reduction and fertilization in a loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda L.) plantation

(2016) Yang Zhang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

(2016) Thomas E. Kolb et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Review of broad-scale drought monitoring of forests: Toward an integrated data mining approach

(2016) Steven P. Norman et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2016) Amanda M. Schwantes et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Response of Mid-Rotation Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Physiology and Productivity to Sustained, Moderate Drought on the Western Edge of the Range

(2016) Adam Maggard et al.   Forests

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

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

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

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

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

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

Ecophysiological vulnerability to climate change: water stress responses in four tree species from the central mountain region of Veracruz, Mexico

(2014) Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez et al.   Regional Environmental Change

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

Drought-induced woody plant mortality in an encroached semi-arid savanna depends on topoedaphic factors and land management

(2013) Dirac Twidwell et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effects of thinning on drought vulnerability and climate response in north temperate forest ecosystems

(2013) Anthony W. D'Amato et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Drought predisposes piñon-juniper woodlands to insect attacks and mortality

(2013) Monica L. Gaylord et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increased vapor pressure deficit due to higher temperature leads to greater transpiration and faster mortality during drought for tree seedlings common to the forest-grassland ecotone

(2013) Rodney E. Will et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Oak decline and red oak borer outbreak: impact in upland oak-hickory forests of Arkansas, USA

(2012) L. J. Haavik et al.   FORESTRY

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

Anatomy of an Extreme Event

(2012) Martin Hoerling et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

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

(2012) Kelly R. Kukowski et al.   OECOLOGIA

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Spatio-Temporal Trends of Oak Decline and Mortality under Periodic Regional Drought in the Ozark Highlands of Arkansas and Missouri

(2012) Zhaofei Fan et al.   Forests

Hydraulic failure and tree dieback are associated with high wood density in a temperate forest under extreme drought

(2011) WILLIAM A. HOFFMANN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest

(2010) MICHAEL MICHAELIAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

(2009) P. J. van Mantgem 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

Oak mortality associated with crown dieback and oak borer attack in the Ozark Highlands

(2008) Zhaofei Fan 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