A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

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

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

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

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

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

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

Trade-Offs between Growth Rate, Tree Size and Lifespan of Mountain Pine (Pinus montana) in the Swiss National Park

(2016) Christof Bigler   PLoS One

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

Extreme defoliation reduces tree growth but not C and N storage in a winter-deciduous species

(2015) Frida I. Piper et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Improving estimates of tree mortality probability using potential growth rate

(2015) Adrian J. Das et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

The agony of choice: different empirical mortality models lead to sharply different future forest dynamics

(2015) Nicolas Bircher et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climate change-associated tree mortality increases without decreasing water availability

(2015) Yong Luo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics of lodgepole pine dying from mountain pine beetle attack

(2015) Erin Wiley 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

A global analysis of parenchyma tissue fractions in secondary xylem of seed plants

(2015) Hugh Morris et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Research frontiers in drought-induced tree mortality: crossing scales and disciplines

(2015) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Wood phenology, not carbon input, controls the interannual variability of wood growth in a temperate oak forest

(2015) Nicolas Delpierre 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

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   SCIENCE

The role of defoliation and root rot pathogen infection in driving the mode of drought-related physiological decline in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)

(2015) D. Aguade et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

(2015) Yan-Shih Lin 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

Global warming and 21st century drying

(2014) Benjamin I. Cook et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

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

(2014) L. Augusto et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

No signs of meristem senescence in old Scots pine

(2014) Maurizio Mencuccini et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The effect of fungal pathogens on the water and carbon economy of trees: implications for drought-induced mortality

(2014) Jonàs Oliva et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Synchrotron X-ray microtomography of xylem embolism inSequoia sempervirenssaplings during cycles of drought and recovery

(2014) Brendan Choat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought and resprouting plants

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

Slow lifelong growth predisposes Populus tremuloides trees to mortality

(2014) Kathryn B. Ireland et al.   OECOLOGIA

Stem CO2efflux in six co-occurring tree species: underlying factors and ecological implications

(2014) JESÚS RODRÍGUEZ-CALCERRADA et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Uptake of Water via Branches Helps Timberline Conifers Refill Embolized Xylem in Late Winter

(2014) S. Mayr et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

Herbivory-induced mortality increases with radial growth in an invasive riparian phreatophyte

(2013) K. R. Hultine et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Nonstructural Carbon in Woody Plants

(2013) Michael C. Dietze et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Drought and mistletoe reduce growth and water-use efficiency of Scots pine

(2013) Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Extreme drought alters competitive dominance within and between tree species in a mixed forest stand

(2013) Liam Cavin et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Disturbance legacies and climate jointly drive tree growth and mortality in an intensively studied boreal forest

(2013) Ben Bond-Lamberty et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2013) Nate G. McDowell 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

Resin duct characteristics associated with tree resistance to bark beetles across lodgepole and limber pines

(2013) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Spatiotemporal patterns of observed bark beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the western United States

(2012) Arjan J. H. Meddens et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Changes in transpiration and foliage growth in lodgepole pine trees following mountain pine beetle attack and mechanical girdling

(2012) Robert M. Hubbard et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Elegance versus Speed: Examining the Competition between Conifer and Angiosperm Trees

(2012) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple

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

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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

Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

(2010) Rupert Seidl et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

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

Importance of resin ducts in reducing ponderosa pine mortality from bark beetle attack

(2010) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   OECOLOGIA

The costs and benefits of fast living

(2009) Karen E. Rose et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

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

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

(2009) Benjamin M. Bolker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Role of Forest Tent Caterpillar Defoliations and Partial Harvest in the Decline and Death of Sugar Maple

(2008) Henrik Hartmann et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

SPATIAL ELEMENTS OF MORTALITY RISK IN OLD-GROWTH FORESTS

(2008) Adrian Das et al.   ECOLOGY

Relationships between radial growth rates and lifespan within North American tree species

(2008) Bryan A. Black et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Growth–mortality relationships as indicators of life-history strategies: a comparison of nine tree species in unmanaged European forests

(2008) Jan Wunder et al.   OIKOS