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

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

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Does one model fit all? Patterns of beech mortality in natural forests of three European regions

(2016) Lisa Hülsmann et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2016) Adrian J. Das et al.   ECOLOGY

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Importance of tree height and social position for drought-related stress on tree growth and mortality

(2016) Rüdiger Grote et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

A comparison between data requirements and availability for calibrating predictive ecological models for lowland UK woodlands: learning new tricks from old trees

(2016) Matthew R. Evans et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The demography of tree species response to climate: seedling recruitment and survival

(2016) Charles D. Canham et al.   Ecosphere

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

(2015) Nicolas Bircher et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Climate modifies tree interactions in terms of basal area growth and mortality in monospecific and mixed Fagus sylvatica and Pinus sylvestris forests

(2015) Sonia Condés et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Forest resilience and tipping points at different spatio-temporal scales: approaches and challenges

(2015) Christopher P. O. Reyer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is drought-induced forest dieback globally increasing?

(2015) Jörg Steinkamp 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

Drought-related tree mortality: addressing the gaps in understanding and prediction

(2015) Patrick Meir et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Evolution of Long-Term Data for Forestry: Large Temperate Research Plots in an Era of Global Change

(2015) James A. Lutz   NORTHWEST SCIENCE

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   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

Effects of growth rate, size, and light availability on tree survival across life stages: a demographic analysis accounting for missing values and small sample sizes

(2015) Aristides Moustakas et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems

(2014) Stan D. Wullschleger et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Survival of Norway spruce remains higher in mixed stands under a dryer and warmer climate

(2014) Susanne Neuner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Cross-scale interactions among bark beetles, climate change, and wind disturbances: a landscape modeling approach

(2013) Christian Temperli et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

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

A Generalized Mixed Logistic Model for Predicting Individual Tree Survival Probability with Unequal Measurement Intervals

(2013) Yuqing Yang et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Many ways to die - partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near-natural mixed deciduous forest

(2013) Frederic Holzwarth et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Feature: Improving our knowledge of drought-induced forest mortality through experiments, observations, and modeling

(2013) Nate G. McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2013) Paloma Ruiz-Benito et al.   PLoS One

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

Empirical and process-based approaches to climate-induced forest mortality models

(2013) Henry D. Adams et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Estimating Tree Survival: A Study Based on the Estonian Forest Research Plots Network

(2012) Allan Sims et al.   ANNALES BOTANICI FENNICI

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

Adaptive management for competing forest goods and services under climate change

(2012) Christian Temperli et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Enhancing gap model accuracy by modeling dynamic height growth and dynamic maximum tree height

(2012) Livia Rasche et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Tree mortality in dynamic vegetation models – A key feature for accurately simulating forest properties

(2012) Corina Manusch et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data - an inverse perspective

(2012) Florian Hartig et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ungulate herbivory modifies the effects of climate change on mountain forests

(2011) M. Didion et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates

(2011) Nathan L. Stephenson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Tree mortality in the eastern and central United States: patterns and drivers

(2011) Michael C. Dietze et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A review of logistic regression models used to predict post-fire tree mortality of western North American conifers

(2011) Travis Woolley et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

The tree mortality regime in temperate old-growth coniferous forests: the role of physical damage

(2010) Andrew J. Larson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Development of the gap model ZELIG-CFS to predict the dynamics of North American mixed forest types with complex structures

(2010) Guy R. Larocque et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

(2010) Rupert Seidl et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Natural development and regeneration of a Central European montane spruce forest

(2010) Miroslav Svoboda et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Accumulation of dead wood in abandoned beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests in northwestern Germany

(2010) P. Meyer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality are far from being resolved

(2010) Anna Sala et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Accounting for uncertainty in ecological analysis: the strengths and limitations of hierarchical statistical modeling

(2009) Noel Cressie et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Assessing the Performance of Prediction Models

(2009) Ewout W. Steyerberg et al.   EPIDEMIOLOGY

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

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

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Impact of uncertainty in tree mortality on the predictions of a tropical forest dynamics model

(2008) H. Wernsdörfer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A review of growth and stand dynamics of Acer pseudoplatanus L. in Europe: implications for silviculture

(2008) S. Hein et al.   FORESTRY

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