Tracing drought effects from the tree to the stand growth in temperate and Mediterranean forests: insights and consequences for forest ecology and management

H Pretzsch, M Del Río, R Grote, HJ Klemmt… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
How drought affects tree and stand growth is an old question, but is getting unprecedented
relevance in view of climate change. Stress effects related to drought have been mostly …

[HTML][HTML] Compound climate events increase tree drought mortality across European forests

A Gazol, JJ Camarero - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change can lead to the simultaneous occurrence of extreme droughts and heat
waves increasing the frequency of compound events with unknown impacts on forests. Here …

European beech dieback after premature leaf senescence during the 2018 drought in northern Switzerland

ER Frei, MM Gossner, Y Vitasse, V Queloz… - Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
During the particularly severe hot summer drought in 2018, widespread premature leaf
senescence was observed in several broadleaved tree species in Central Europe …

[HTML][HTML] Tamm review: Drought-induced Scots pine mortality–trends, contributing factors, and mechanisms

AK Bose, A Gessler, U Büntgen, A Rigling - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A recent increase in the intensity and frequency of climate extremes under global warming is
likely to continue to cause unprecedented rates of forest dieback in different habitats around …

Competition‐induced tree mortality across Europe is driven by shade tolerance, proportion of conspecifics and drought

N Kulha, J Honkaniemi, J Barrere, S Brandl… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forest stand densities are increasing in the boreal and temperate biomes, suggesting that
tree‐tree competition is intensifying. Anticipating the consequences of this intensified …

Spatial vulnerability assessment of silver fir and Norway spruce dieback driven by climate warming

C Piedallu, D Dallery, C Bresson, M Legay… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context A significant forest decline has been noticed these last years in Europe. Managers
need tools to better anticipate these massive events. Objectives We evaluated the efficiency …

Range‐wide variation in local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity of fitness‐related traits in Fagus sylvatica and their implications under climate change

H Gárate‐Escamilla, A Hampe… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To better understand and more realistically predict future species distribution ranges, it
is critical to account for local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in populations' responses …

Tree Mortality: revisited under changed climatic and silvicultural conditions

H Pretzsch, R Grote - Progress in Botany Vol. 84, 2023 - Springer
When trees within forests increase their dimension, the limitation of space (and thus
resources) can cause competition-based mortality. Thus, growth and mortality interact, and …

Managing uncertainty in Scots pine range-wide adaptation under climate change

HR Hallingbäck, V Burton… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Forests provide important ecosystem services and renewable materials. Yet, under a future
climate, optimal conditions will likely shift outside the current range for some tree species …

Below average midsummer to early autumn precipitation evolved into the main driver of sudden Scots pine vitality decline in the Swiss Rhône valley

S Hunziker, M Begert, SC Scherrer, A Rigling… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The vitality of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is declining since the 1990s in many European
regions. This was mostly attributed to the occurrence of hotter droughts, other climatic …