Early-Warning Signals of Individual Tree Mortality Based on Annual Radial Growth

How to kill a tree: empirical mortality models for 18 species and their performance in a dynamic forest model

(2018) Lisa Hülsmann et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Detecting early warning signals of tree mortality in boreal North America using multiscale satellite data

(2018) Brendan M. Rogers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2018) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought induced tree mortality - a tree-ring isotope based conceptual model to assess mechanisms and predispositions

(2018) Arthur Gessler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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(2018) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Responses of sapwood ray parenchyma and non-structural carbohydrates of Pinus sylvestris to drought and long-term irrigation

(2017) Georg von Arx et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Structural overshoot of tree growth with climate variability and the global spectrum of drought-induced forest dieback

(2017) Alistair S. Jump et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

New Tree-Ring Evidence from the Pyrenees Reveals Western Mediterranean Climate Variability since Medieval Times

(2017) Ulf Büntgen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Integrating Science and Management to Assess Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate Change

(2017) Leslie A. Brandt et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

lmerTest Package: Tests in Linear Mixed Effects Models

(2017) Alexandra Kuznetsova et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

A global analysis of plant recovery performance from water stress

(2017) Jingjing Yin et al.   OIKOS

The fate of recently fixed carbon after drought release: towards unravelling C storage regulation in Tilia platyphyllos and Pinus sylvestris

(2017) Lucía Galiano et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Long-term effects of drought on tree-ring growth and carbon isotope variability in Scots pine in a dry environment

(2017) Galina Timofeeva et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Observed trends in the magnitude and persistence of monthly temperature variability

(2017) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

The amount of parenchyma and living fibers affects storage of nonstructural carbohydrates in young stems and roots of temperate trees

(2016) Lenka Plavcová et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Slowing Down of Recovery as Generic Risk Marker for Acute Severity Transitions in Chronic Diseases

(2016) Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

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

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Tree-ring isotopes reveal drought sensitivity in trees killed by spruce beetle outbreaks in south-central Alaska

(2016) Adam Z. Csank et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants: a global synthesis

(2016) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Why do trees die? Characterizing the drivers of background tree mortality

(2016) Adrian J. Das et al.   ECOLOGY

When a Tree Dies in the Forest: Scaling Climate-Driven Tree Mortality to Ecosystem Water and Carbon Fluxes

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Contrasting growth and mortality responses to climate warming of two pine species in a continental Mediterranean ecosystem

(2016) Estela Herguido et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought-induced vegetation shifts in terrestrial ecosystems: The key role of regeneration dynamics

(2016) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Individual traits as determinants of time to death under extreme drought inPinus sylvestrisL.

(2016) Núria Garcia-Forner et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Remotely sensed resilience of tropical forests

(2016) Jan Verbesselt et al.   Nature Climate Change

Limited Growth Recovery after Drought-Induced Forest Dieback in Very Defoliated Trees of Two Pine Species

(2016) Guillermo Guada et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

The influence of prefire tree growth and crown condition on postfire mortality of sugar pine following prescribed fire in Sequoia National Park

(2015) Jonathan C.B. Nesmith et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Paradigm shift in plant growth control

(2015) Christian Körner   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Signals and memory in tree-ring width and density data

(2015) Jan Esper et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Reduced growth sensitivity to climate in bark-beetle infested Aleppo pines: Connecting climatic and biotic drivers of forest dieback

(2015) Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

With and without warning: managing ecosystems in a changing world

(2015) Michael L Pace et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Detecting long-term growth trends using tree rings: a critical evaluation of methods

(2015) Richard L. Peters 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

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

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

CASSIA - a dynamic model for predicting intra-annual sink demand and interannual growth variation in Scots pine

(2015) Pauliina Schiestl-Aalto et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2015) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Forest health and global change

(2015) S. Trumbore et al.   SCIENCE

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

(2015) Yan-Shih Lin et al.   Nature Climate Change

Prolonged experimental drought reduces plant hydraulic conductance and transpiration and increases mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland

(2015) Robert E. Pangle et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

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

The enigma of the rise of angiosperms: can we untie the knot?

(2014) L. Augusto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Resilience of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst) growth to changing climatic conditions in Southwest Germany

(2014) Simon Boden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

(2014) Nuno Carvalhais et al.   NATURE

Drought and resprouting plants

(2014) Melanie J. B. Zeppel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resilience indicators: prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts

(2014) V. Dakos et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Growth-Mortality Relationships in Piñon Pine (Pinus edulis) during Severe Droughts of the Past Century: Shifting Processes in Space and Time

(2014) Alison K. Macalady et al.   PLoS One

Uniform climate sensitivity in tree-ring stable isotopes across species and sites in a mid-latitude temperate forest

(2014) C. Hartl-Meier et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Declining hydraulic performances and low carbon investments in tree rings predate Scots pine drought-induced mortality

(2014) Ana-Maria Hereş et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Drought-induced decline and mortality of silver fir differ among three sites in Southern France

(2013) Maxime Cailleret et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Using simulations and data to evaluate mean sensitivity (ζ) as a useful statistic in dendrochronology

(2013) Andrew G. Bunn et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Low relative growth rates predict future mortality of common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

(2013) Sten Gillner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Precision and accuracy of tree-ring-based death dates of mountain pines in the Swiss National Park

(2013) Christof Bigler et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Robust spatially aggregated projections of climate extremes

(2013) E. M. Fischer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Forest mortality in high-elevation whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests of eastern California, USA; influence of environmental context, bark beetles, climatic water deficit, and warming

(2012) Constance I. Millar et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Drought-induced growth decline of Aleppo and maritime pine forests in south-eastern Spain.

(2012) Raúl Sánchez-Salguero et al.   Forest Systems

A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability

(2012) Christopher P.O. Reyer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Hydraulic safety margins and embolism reversal in stems and leaves: Why are conifers and angiosperms so different?

(2012) Daniel M. Johnson et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

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

(2012) Vasilis Dakos et al.   PLoS One

Generic Indicators for Loss of Resilience Before a Tipping Point Leading to Population Collapse

(2012) L. Dai et al.   SCIENCE

Fast replenishment of initial carbon stores after defoliation by the pine processionary moth and its relationship to the re-growth ability of trees

(2012) Sara Palacio et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

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

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

Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple

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

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

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

Robustness of variance and autocorrelation as indicators of critical slowing down

(2011) Vasilis Dakos et al.   ECOLOGY

Pinus halepensis Mill. crown development and fruiting declined with repeated drought in Mediterranean France

(2011) François Girard et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Size-mediated climate–growth relationships in temperate forests: A multi-species analysis

(2011) Pierre Mérian et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Temporal patterns of radial growth in declining Austrocedrus chilensis forests in Northern Patagonia: The use of tree-rings as an indicator of forest decline

(2011) Mariano M. Amoroso et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extreme climatic event-triggered overstorey vegetation loss increases understorey solar input regionally: primary and secondary ecological implications

(2011) Patrick D. Royer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Recovery rates reflect distance to a tipping point in a living system

(2011) Annelies J. Veraart et al.   NATURE

Carbon reserves and canopy defoliation determine the recovery of Scots pine 4 yr after a drought episode

(2011) L. Galiano et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

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

Early warning signals of extinction in deteriorating environments

(2010) John M. Drake et al.   NATURE

Xylem function and growth rate interact to determine recovery rates after exposure to extreme water deficit

(2010) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

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

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

On the ‘Divergence Problem’ in Northern Forests: A review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

(2007) Rosanne D'Arrigo et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE