The role of height‐driven constraints and compensations on tree vulnerability to drought

L Fernández‐de‐Uña, J Martínez‐Vilalta… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Frequent observations of higher mortality in larger trees than in smaller ones during
droughts have sparked an increasing interest in size‐dependent drought‐induced mortality …

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

N McDowell, WT Pockman, CD Allen… - New …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Severe droughts have been associated with regional‐scale forest mortality worldwide.
Climate change is expected to exacerbate regional mortality events; however, prediction …

Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

N Perez-Harguindeguy, S Diaz, E Garnier… - Australian Journal of …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

Historic and projected changes in vapor pressure deficit suggest a continental‐scale drying of the United States atmosphere

DL Ficklin, KA Novick - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Via air temperature increases and relative humidity changes, climate change will modify
vapor pressure deficit (VPD), which is an important determinant of water vapor and CO2 …

Implications of incorporating N cycling and N limitations on primary production in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

B Smith, D Wårlind, A Arneth, T Hickler… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
The LPJ-GUESS dynamic vegetation model uniquely combines an individual-and patch-
based representation of vegetation dynamics with ecosystem biogeochemical cycling from …

[KNJIGA][B] Forest growth and yield modeling

AR Weiskittel, DW Hann, JA Kershaw Jr, JK Vanclay - 2011 - books.google.com
Forest Growth and Yield Modeling synthesizes current scientific literature and provides
insights in how models are constructed. Giving suggestions for future developments, and …

Tree mortality during long-term droughts is lower in structurally complex forest stands

Q Ma, Y Su, C Niu, Q Ma, T Hu, X Luo, X Tai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing drought frequency and severity in a warming climate threaten forest ecosystems
with widespread tree deaths. Canopy structure is important in regulating tree mortality during …

Hydraulic traits are coordinated with maximum plant height at the global scale

H Liu, SM Gleason, G Hao, L Hua, P He… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Water must be transported long distances in tall plants, resulting in increasing hydraulic
resistance, which may place limitations on the maximum plant height (H max) in a given …

Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

I Aubin, AD Munson, F Cardou, PJ Burton… - Environmental …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to
quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate …

The hydraulic limitation hypothesis revisited

MG Ryan, N Phillips, BJ Bond - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We proposed the hydraulic limitation hypothesis (HLH) as a mechanism to explain universal
patterns in tree height, and tree and stand biomass growth: height growth slows down as …