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Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?

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Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests

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Climate change impact on tree mortality differs with tree social status

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Light availability predicts mortality probability of conifer saplings in Swiss mountain forests better than radial growth and tree size

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Complementarity effects are strengthened by competition intensity and global environmental change in the central boreal forests of Canada

(2019) Eric B. Searle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Similar patterns of background mortality across Europe are mostly driven by drought in European beech and a combination of drought and competition in Scots pine

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Where are Europe’s last primary forests?

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How do tree mortality models from combined tree-ring and inventory data affect projections of forest succession?

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Coupled effects of wind-storms and drought on tree mortality across 115 forest stands from the Western Alps and the Jura mountains

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Climate variability drives recent tree mortality in Europe

(2017) Mathias Neumann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe?

(2017) Jonathan Spinoni et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Sapling growth rates reveal conspecific negative density dependence in a temperate forest

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

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Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

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

(2016) Adrian J. Das et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests - a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling

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Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

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Climate change-associated tree mortality increases without decreasing water availability

(2015) Yong Luo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

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Half-century evidence from western Canada shows forest dynamics are primarily driven by competition followed by climate

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The role of forest stand structure as biodiversity indicator

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Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870

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Patterns and Drivers of Tree Mortality in Iberian Forests: Climatic Effects Are Modified by Competition

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Mortality of silver fir and Norway Spruce in the Western Alps — a semi-parametric approach combining size-dependent and growth-dependent mortality

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Summer droughts depress radial growth of Picea abies in pristine taiga of the Arkhangelsk province, northwestern Russia

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Responses of forest trees to single and multiple environmental stresses from seedlings to mature plants: Past stress history, stress interactions, tolerance and acclimation

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Quantifying distance-independent tree competition for predicting Norway spruce mortality in unmanaged forests

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Influences of Forest Structure, Climate and Species Composition on Tree Mortality across the Eastern US

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A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

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Size-dependence of growth and mortality influence the shade tolerance of trees in a lowland temperate rain forest

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Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

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Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

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