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A dynamic soil chamber system coupled with a tunable diode laser for online measurements of delta13C, delta18O, and efflux rate of soil-respired CO2.

scientific article

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

scholarly article by Craig D. Allen et al published February 2010 in Forest Ecology and Management

A heuristic classification of woody plants based on contrasting shade and drought strategies

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

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A new measurement technique reveals rapid post-illumination changes in the carbon isotope composition of leaf-respired CO2.

scientific article

A new measurement technique reveals temporal variation in delta18O of leaf-respired CO2.

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A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata

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Allocation to carbon storage pools in Norway spruce saplings under drought and low CO2.

scientific article published on 13 March 2015

An allometry-based model of the survival strategies of hydraulic failure and carbon starvation

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Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

scientific article

CO<sub>2</sub>Fertilization Confounds Tree‐Ring Records of Regional Hydroclimate at Northeastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in 2019

Canopy Position Influences the Degree of Light Suppression of Leaf Respiration in Abundant Tree Genera in the Amazon Forest

scientific article published on 30 September 2021

Carbohydrate dynamics and mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland under three future precipitation scenarios

scientific article

Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States*

scholarly article by A. Park Williams et al published December 2014 in Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Changes in carbon and nitrogen metabolism during seawater-induced mortality of Picea sitchensis trees

scientific article published on 14 May 2021

Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide

scientific article

Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Coastal Forest Seawater Exposure Increases Stem Methane Concentration

scientific article published in 2021

Conifers depend on established roots during drought: results from a coupled model of carbon allocation and hydraulics

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Constrained tree growth and gas exchange of seawater‐exposed forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Contrasting growth responses of Qilian juniper (Sabina przewalskii) and Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) to CO2 fertilization despite common water-use efficiency increases at the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Convergence in resource use efficiency across trees with differing hydraulic strategies in response to ecosystem precipitation manipulation

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Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

article by A. Park Williams et al published 2015 in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Corrigendum: The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

scientific article published on 26 August 2016

Declining carbohydrate content of Sitka-spruce treesdying from seawater exposure

scientific article published in 2021

Detecting Forest Response to Droughts with Global Observations of Vegetation Water Content

scientific article

Distinct xylem responses to acute vs. prolonged drought in pine trees

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Divergences in hydraulic conductance and anatomical traits of stems and leaves in three temperate tree species coping with drought, N addition and their interactions

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Drought and resprouting plants.

scientific article

Drought predisposes piñon-juniper woodlands to insect attacks and mortality

scientific article published on 20 February 2013

Dry and hot: the hydraulic consequences of a climate change-type drought for Amazonian trees

scientific article published on 08 October 2018

Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: A scientific vision

Effects of nitrogen enrichment on tree carbon allocation: A global synthesis

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Empirical and process-based approaches to climate-induced forest mortality models.

scientific article

Estimating Global Ecosystem Isohydry/Anisohydry Using Active and Passive Microwave Satellite Data

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Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework.

scientific article published on 05 September 2013

Experimental drought and heat can delay phenological development and reduce foliar and shoot growth in semiarid trees

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Feature: Improving our knowledge of drought-induced forest mortality through experiments, observations, and modeling.

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Foliar respiration is related to photosynthetic, growth and carbohydrate response to experimental drought and elevated temperature

scientific article published on 10 September 2021

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances.

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Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

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High Temperature Acclimation of Leaf Gas Exchange, Photochemistry, and Metabolomic Profiles in <i>Populus trichocarpa</i>

scientific article published on 03 August 2021

High-frequency field measurements of diurnal carbon isotope discrimination and internal conductance in a semi-arid species, Juniperus monosperma

scientific article

Homeostatic levels of nonstructural carbohydrates after 13 yr of drought and irrigation in Pinus sylvestris

scientific article published in 2018

Homeostatic maintenance of non‐structural carbohydrates during the 2015‐2016 El Niño drought across a tropical forest precipitation gradient

scientific article published on 07 January 2019

Homeostatic maintenance of ponderosa pine gas exchange in response to stand density changes

scientific article published on June 2006

Hotter droughts alter resource allocation to chemical defenses in piñon pine

scientific article published in December 2021

How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses.

scientific article

Hydraulic architecture explains species moisture dependency but not mortality rates across a tropical rainfall gradient

scientific article published on 13 June 2021

Hydraulic limits preceding mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland under experimental drought

scientific article published on 24 April 2012

Hydraulic safety and growth rather than climate of origin influence survival in desert shrubs and trees

scientific article published in 2023

Hydraulically‐vulnerable trees survive on deep‐water access during droughts in a tropical forest

scientific article

Identification of key parameters controlling demographically structured vegetation dynamics in a land surface model: CLM4.5(FATES)

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Incorporating variability in simulations of seasonally forced phenology using integral projection models

scientific article published on 26 November 2017

Increased susceptibility to drought-induced mortality in Sequoia sempervirens (Cupressaceae) trees under Cenozoic atmospheric carbon dioxide starvation

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Increasing impacts of extreme droughts on vegetation productivity under climate change

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Influence of diurnal variation in mesophyll conductance on modelled 13C discrimination: results from a field study

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Integrating ecophysiology and forest landscape models to improve projections of drought effects under climate change

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Interacting Effects of Leaf Water Potential and Biomass on Vegetation Optical Depth

scientific article published in November 2017

Interannual variability of ecosystem iso/anisohydry is regulated by environmental dryness

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Interannual variations in needle and sapwood traits of Pinus edulis branches under an experimental drought.

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Lack of acclimation of leaf area:sapwood area ratios in piñon pine and juniper in response to precipitation reduction and warming

Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro) ⬇️

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Linking nonstructural carbohydrate dynamics to gas exchange and leaf hydraulic behavior in Pinus edulis and Juniperus monosperma.

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

Linking plant hydraulics and beta diversity in tropical forests

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Localized basal area affects soil respiration temperature sensitivity in a coastal deciduous forest

scientific article published in 2020

Manipulative experiments demonstrate how long-term soil moisture changes alter controls of plant water use

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Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat

scholarly article

Mechanisms of piñon pine mortality after severe drought: a retrospective study of mature trees

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

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

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Methodology and performance of a rainfall manipulation experiment in a piñon–juniper woodland

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Modeling the mechanisms of conifer mortality under seawater exposure

scientific article published on 27 June 2023

Modeling the topographic influence on aboveground biomass using a coupled model of hillslope hydrology and ecosystem dynamics

scientific article published in 2022

Modeling the topographic influence on aboveground biomass using a coupled model of hillslope hydrology and ecosystem dynamics

scientific article published on 20 June 2022

Mortality predispositions of conifers across western USA

scientific article published on 09 August 2020

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 07 August 2015

Our limited ability to predict vegetation dynamics under water stress

scientific article published on October 2013

Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Plant hydraulics as a central hub integrating plant and ecosystem function: meeting report for 'Emerging Frontiers in Plant Hydraulics' (Washington, DC, May 2015).

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Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

Pragmatic hydraulic theory predicts stomatal responses to climatic water deficits.

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Precipitation mediates sap flux sensitivity to evaporative demand in the neotropics

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Precipitation, not air temperature, drives functional responses of trees in semi-arid ecosystems

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Predicting Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances and Their Mitigation

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Processes and mechanisms of coastal woody‐plant mortality

scientific article published in 2022

Projected Future Changes in Vegetation in Western North America in the Twenty-First Century

article by Xiaoyan Jiang et al published June 2013 in Journal of Climate

Prolonged experimental drought reduces plant hydraulic conductance and transpiration and increases mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland

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Prolonged warming and drought modify belowground interactions for water among coexisting plants

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Quantifying tree mortality in a mixed species woodland using multitemporal high spatial resolution satellite imagery

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Reduced ecosystem resilience quantifies fine‐scale heterogeneity in tropical forest mortality responses to drought

scientific article published on 18 December 2021

Reduced transpiration response to precipitation pulses precedes mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland subject to prolonged drought

scientific article

Reductions in tree performance during hotter droughts are mitigated by shifts in nitrogen cycling

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Regulation and acclimation of leaf gas exchange in a piñon-juniper woodland exposed to three different precipitation regimes

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Representation of Plant Hydraulics in the Noah‐MP Land Surface Model: Model Development and Multiscale Evaluation

scientific article published on 06 February 2021

Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Response of the soil microbial community to changes in precipitation in a semiarid ecosystem

scientific article

Responses of functional traits to seven-year nitrogen addition in two tree species: coordination of hydraulics, gas exchange and carbon reserves

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Responses of two semiarid conifer tree species to reduced precipitation and warming reveal new perspectives for stomatal regulation.

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO2 concentration: from the geological past to the next century.

scientific article

Severe declines in hydraulic capacity and associated carbon starvation drive mortality in seawater exposed Sitka-spruce (<i>Picea sitchensis</i>) trees

scientific article published on 21 March 2022

Species-Specific Shifts in Diurnal Sap Velocity Dynamics and Hysteretic Behavior of Ecophysiological Variables During the 2015-2016 El Niño Event in the Amazon Forest

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Stability of tropical forest tree carbon‐water relations in a rainfall exclusion treatment through shifts in effective water uptake depth

scientific article published on 01 September 2021

Standardized protocols and procedures can precisely and accurately quantify non-structural carbohydrates

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Stem radial growth and water storage responses to heat and drought vary between conifers with differing hydraulic strategies

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Stimulation of isoprene emissions and electron transport rates are a key mechanism of thermal tolerance in the tropical species Vismia guianensis

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Storage of carbon reserves in spruce trees is prioritized over growth in the face of carbon limitation

scientific article published in 2021

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off

scientific article published on 02 August 2013

The effect of warmer winters on the demography of an outbreak insect is hidden by intraspecific competition

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

The effects of α-cellulose extraction and blue-stain fungus on retrospective studies of carbon and oxygen isotope variation in live and dead trees

scientific article published in October 2011

The energetic and carbon economic origins of leaf thermoregulation

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The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

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The impact of precipitation change on nitrogen cycling in a semi-arid ecosystem

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The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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The mechanisms of carbon starvation: how, when, or does it even occur at all?

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

The response of stomatal conductance to seasonal drought in tropical forests

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

The role of nutrients in drought-induced tree mortality and recovery

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

The uncertain role of rising atmospheric CO2 on global plant transpiration

scientific article published in July 2022

Too dry for lizards: short‐term rainfall influence on lizard microhabitat use in an experimental rainfall manipulation within a piñon‐juniper

scientific article published in 2015

Toward a mechanistic modeling of nitrogen limitation on vegetation dynamics

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Trade‐offs of forest management scenarios on forest carbon exchange and threatened and endangered species habitat

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Traits drive global wood decomposition rates more than climate

scientific article published on 03 July 2018

Transpiration and stomatal conductance across a steep climate gradient in the southern Rocky Mountains

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Tree growth, transpiration, and water-use efficiency between shoreline and upland red maple (Acer rubrum) trees in a coastal forest

scientific article published in December 2020

Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

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Tree water dynamics in a drying and warming world.

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Unsaturation of vapour pressure inside leaves of two conifer species.

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Using traits to uncover tropical forest function

scientific article published on May 2017

Variation in hydroclimate sustains tropical forest biomass and promotes functional diversity

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Warming combined with more extreme precipitation regimes modifies the water sources used by trees

scientific article

Who is the new sheriff in town regulating boreal forest growth?

article by A. Park Williams et al published 1 December 2011 in Environmental Research Letters

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