A combined severe heatwave and drought, starting in 2018 and lasting for several months,
restarted the discussion on the resistance of European beech to climatic changes, with …

Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, 160 million grid-connected electricity consumers live in
countries where hydropower accounts for over 50% of total power supply. A warmer climate …

In recent decades, an increasing persistence of atmospheric circulation patterns has been
observed. In the course of the associated long-lasting anticyclonic summer circulations …

Extreme droughts are expected to increase in frequency and severity in many regions of the
world, threatening multiple ecosystem services provided by forests. Effective strategies to …

Dengue is expanding globally, but how dengue emergence is shaped locally by interactions
between climatic and socio-environmental factors is not well understood. Here, we …

Forest biodiversity and ecosystem services are hitherto predominantly quantified in forest
interiors, well away from edges. However, these edges also represent a substantial …

Extreme climate events (ECEs) such as severe droughts, heat waves, and late spring frosts
are rare but exert a paramount role in sha** tree species distributions. The frequency of …

Climate change poses certain threats to the World's forests. That is, tree performance
declines if species-specific, climatic thresholds are surpassed. Prominent climatic changes …

Associated with global warming, drought has destructive influences on agriculture and
ecosystems, especially in the fragile Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). This study investigated …

Recent studies have identified strong relationships between delayed recovery of tree growth
after drought and tree mortality caused by subsequent droughts. These observations raise …