Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

C Grossiord, TN Buckley, LA Cernusak… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent decades have been characterized by increasing temperatures worldwide, resulting
in an exponential climb in vapor pressure deficit (VPD). VPD has been identified as an …

Climate and functional traits jointly mediate tree water‐use strategies

V Flo, J Martínez‐Vilalta, M Mencuccini… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tree water use is central to plant function and ecosystem fluxes. However, it is still unknown
how organ‐level water‐relations traits are coordinated to determine whole‐tree water‐use …

Carbon starvation following a decade of experimental drought consumes old reserves in Pinus edulis

DMP Peltier, MS Carbone, CD McIntire… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in the age or turnover time of non‐structural carbohydrates (NSC) may underlie
changes in tree growth under long‐term increases in drought stress associated with climate …

Combined high leaf hydraulic safety and efficiency provides drought tolerance in Caragana species adapted to low mean annual precipitation

GQ Yao, ZF Nie, NC Turner, FM Li, TP Gao… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Clarifying the coordination of leaf hydraulic traits with gas exchange across closely‐related
species adapted to varying rainfall can provide insights into plant habitat distribution and …

Tree water dynamics in a drying and warming world

C Grossiord, S Sevanto, I Borrego… - Plant, cell & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the relative impacts of precipitation reduction and vapour pressure deficit
(VPD) on plant water dynamics and determining whether acclimation may influence these …

Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat

NG McDowell, C Grossiord, HD Adams… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Predictions of warmer droughts causing increasing forest mortality are becoming abundant,
yet few studies have investigated the mechanisms of forest persistence. To examine the …

Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods

C Grossiord, C Bachofen, J Gisler, E Mas… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Warming and drought alter plant phenology, photosynthesis and growth with important
consequences for the global carbon cycle and the earth's climate. Yet, few studies have …

Leaf stomatal configuration and photosynthetic traits jointly affect leaf water use efficiency in forests along climate gradients

S Pan, X Wang, Z Yan, J Wu, L Guo, Z Peng… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Water use efficiency (WUE) represents the trade‐off between carbon assimilation and water
loss in plants. It remains unclear how leaf stomatal and photosynthetic traits regulate the …

Seeking the “point of no return” in the sequence of events leading to mortality of mature trees

Y Preisler, F Tatarinov, JM Grünzweig… - Plant, Cell & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Drought‐related tree mortality is increasing globally, but the sequence of events leading to it
remains poorly understood. To identify this sequence, we used a 2016 tree mortality event in …

Time lag between glacial retreat and upward migration alters tropical alpine communities

A Zimmer, RI Meneses, A Rabatel, A Soruco… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2018 - Elsevier
Species range shifts and possible species extinctions in alpine regions are hypothesized
being influenced by the increasing time lag between the velocity of global warming and the …