Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

NG McDowell, G Sapes, A Pivovaroff… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-
decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate …

Drought response of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)—A review

C Leuschner - Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
European beech (Fagus sylvatica) is the dominant tree species of Central Europe's natural
forests and one of the continent's most important timber species. This highly competitive …

Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees

L DeSoto, M Cailleret, F Sterck, S Jansen… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Severe droughts have the potential to reduce forest productivity and trigger tree mortality.
Most trees face several drought events during their life and therefore resilience to dry …

Towards a comparable quantification of resilience

J Ingrisch, M Bahn - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2018‏ - cell.com
Resilience is a key concept in ecology and describes the capacity of an ecosystem to
maintain its state and recover from disturbances. Numerous metrics have been applied to …

Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content

AG Konings, SS Saatchi, C Frankenberg… - Global change …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

Beyond the extreme: recovery of carbon and water relations in woody plants following heat and drought stress

NK Ruehr, R Grote, S Mayr, A Arneth - Tree physiology, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Plant responses to drought and heat stress have been extensively studied, whereas post-
stress recovery, which is fundamental to understanding stress resilience, has received much …

Beyond source and sink control–toward an integrated approach to understand the carbon balance in plants

A Gessler, R Zweifel - New Phytologist, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
A conceptual understanding on how the vegetation's carbon (C) balance is determined by
source activity and sink demand is important to predict its C uptake and sequestration …

Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers

A Gessler, L Bächli, E Rouholahnejad Freund… - New …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The intensity and frequency of droughts events are projected to increase in future with
expected adverse effects for forests. Thus, information on the dynamics of tree water uptake …

The way back

A Gessler, A Bottero, J Marshall, M Arend - The New Phytologist, 2020‏ - JSTOR
Resilience is a key concept in ecology, describing the capacity of a system to resist a
disturbance, recover from it and return to a stable state (Lloret et al., 2011; Hodgson et al …

Drought, heat, and the carbon cycle: a review

S Sippel, M Reichstein, X Ma, MD Mahecha… - Current Climate Change …, 2018‏ - Springer
Abstract Purpose of the Review Weather and climate extremes substantially affect global-
and regional-scale carbon (C) cycling, and thus spatially or temporally extended climatic …