Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

TJ Brodribb, J Powers, H Cochard, B Choat - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
Trees are the living foundations on which most terrestrial biodiversity is built. Central to the
success of trees are their woody bodies, which connect their elevated photosynthetic …

How woody plants adjust above‐and below‐ground traits in response to sustained drought

L Rowland, JA Ramírez‐Valiente, IP Hartley… - New …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Future increases in drought severity and frequency are predicted to have substantial impacts
on plant function and survival. However, there is considerable uncertainty concerning what …

Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests

JV Tavares, RS Oliveira, M Mencuccini… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Tropical forests face increasing climate risk,, yet our ability to predict their response to
climate change is limited by poor understanding of their resistance to water stress. Although …

Increasing and widespread vulnerability of intact tropical rainforests to repeated droughts

S Tao, J Chave, PL Frison, T Le Toan, P Ciais… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Intact tropical rainforests have been exposed to severe droughts in recent decades, which
may threaten their integrity, their ability to sequester carbon, and their capacity to provide …

Identifying areas at risk of drought‐induced tree mortality across South‐Eastern Australia

MG De Kauwe, BE Medlyn, AM Ukkola… - Global Change …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract South‐East Australia has recently been subjected to two of the worst droughts in the
historical record (Millennium Drought, 2000–2009 and Big Dry, 2017–2019). Unfortunately …

Small and slow is safe: on the drought tolerance of tropical tree species

J Guillemot, NK Martin‐StPaul… - Global Change …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how evolutionary history and the coordination between trait trade‐off axes
shape the drought tolerance of trees is crucial to predict forest dynamics under climate …

Linking drought‐induced xylem embolism resistance to wood anatomical traits in Neotropical trees

S Levionnois, S Jansen, RT Wandji… - New …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Drought‐induced xylem embolism is considered to be one of the main factors driving
mortality in woody plants worldwide. Although several structure–functional mechanisms …

Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply

O Binks, LA Cernusak, M Liddell, M Bradford… - New …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric conditions are expected to become warmer and drier in the future, but little is
known about how evaporative demand influences forest structure and function …

Recovery of logged forest fragments in a human-modified tropical landscape during the 2015-16 El Niño

MH Nunes, T Jucker, T Riutta, M Svátek… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The past 40 years in Southeast Asia have seen about 50% of lowland rainforests converted
to oil palm and other plantations, and much of the remaining forest heavily logged. Little is …

Determining deep root water uptake patterns with tree age in the Chinese loess area

Z Tao, E Neil, B Si - Agricultural Water Management, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Deep soil water is important for trees to combat droughts and thus is an important
consideration for assessing sustainability of afforestation. However, the extent to which trees …