A review of environmental droughts: Increased risk under global warming?

SM Vicente-Serrano, SM Quiring, M Peña-Gallardo… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

A Gazol, JJ Camarero… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Forecasted increase drought frequency and severity may drive worldwide declines in forest
productivity. Species‐level responses to a drier world are likely to be influenced by their …

Daily climate data reveal stronger climate-growth relationships for an extended European tree-ring network

J Jevšenak - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
An extended European tree-ring network was compiled from various sources of tree-ring
data from Europe, northern Africa and western Asia. A total of 1860 tree-ring chronologies …

Drought legacies are short, prevail in dry conifer forests and depend on growth variability

A Gazol, JJ Camarero, R Sánchez‐Salguero… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The negative impacts of drought on forest growth and productivity last for several years
generating legacies, although the factors that determine why such legacies vary across sites …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal precipitation and continentality drive bimodal growth in Mediterranean forests

C Valeriano, E Gutiérrez, M Colangelo, A Gazol… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tree phenology is sensitive to climate warming and changes in seasonal precipitation. Long
xylogenesis records are scarce, thus limiting our ability to analyse how radial growth …

Global fading of the temperature–growth coupling at alpine and polar treelines

JJ Camarero, A Gazol… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is expected to positively alter upward and poleward treelines which are
controlled by low temperature and a short growing season. Despite the importance of …

The impact of drought spells on forests depends on site conditions: The case of 2017 summer heat wave in southern Europe

A Rita, JJ Camarero, A Nolè, M Borghetti… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A major component of climate change is an increase in temperature and precipitation
variability. Over the last few decades, an increase in the frequency of extremely warm …

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 …

Resist, recover or both? Growth plasticity in response to drought is geographically structured and linked to intraspecific variability in Pinus pinaster

R Sánchez‐Salguero, JJ Camarero… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigate the effects of the environmental and geographical processes driving
growth resilience and recovery in response to drought in Mediterranean Pinus pinaster …

Tree growth decline as a response to projected climate change in the 21st century in Mediterranean mountain forests of Chile

V Matskovsky, A Venegas-González… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Global Climate Models project that observed climate trends are likely to be
preserved and the number of extreme events will be increasing during the rest of the 21st …