The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

JS Clark, L Iverson, CW Woodall, CD Allen… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize insights from current understanding of drought impacts at stand‐to‐
biogeographic scales, including management options, and we identify challenges to be …

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

CD Allen, AK Macalady, H Chenchouni… - Forest ecology and …, 2010 - Elsevier
Greenhouse gas emissions have significantly altered global climate, and will continue to do
so in the future. Increases in the frequency, duration, and/or severity of drought and heat …

Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

C Senf, A Buras, CS Zang, A Rammig… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Pulses of tree mortality caused by drought have been reported recently in forests around the
globe, but large-scale quantitative evidence is lacking for Europe. Analyzing high-resolution …

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

CD Allen, DD Breshears, NG McDowell - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated
broad‐scale forest die‐off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter …

Rapid hydraulic collapse as cause of drought-induced mortality in conifers

M Arend, RM Link, R Patthey, G Hoch… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the vulnerability of trees to drought-induced mortality is key to predicting the
fate of forests in a future climate with more frequent and intense droughts, although the …

Exceptional heat and atmospheric dryness amplified losses of primary production during the 2020 US Southwest hot drought

MP Dannenberg, D Yan, ML Barnes… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's ecosystems are increasingly threatened by “hot drought,” which occurs when hot air
temperatures coincide with precipitation deficits, intensifying the hydrological, physiological …

Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

TE Kolb, CJ Fettig, MP Ayres, BJ Bentz, JA Hicke… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Future anthropogenic-induced changes to the earth's climate will likely include increases in
temperature and changes in precipitation that will increase the frequency and severity of …

How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses

S Sevanto, NG Mcdowell, LT Dickman… - Plant, cell & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite decades of research on plant drought tolerance, the physiological mechanisms by
which trees succumb to drought are still under debate. We report results from an experiment …

Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century

JB Bradford, DR Schlaepfer, WK Lauenroth… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dryland ecosystems may be especially vulnerable to expected 21st century increases in
temperature and aridity because they are tightly controlled by moisture availability. However …

Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise

NG Mcdowell, AP Williams, C Xu, WT Pockman… - Nature Climate …, 2016 - nature.com
Global temperature rise and extremes accompanying drought threaten forests, and their
associated climatic feedbacks,. Our ability to accurately simulate drought-induced forest …