Drought effects on seedling survival in a tropical moist forest

BMJ Engelbrecht, TA Kursar, MT Tyree - Trees, 2005 - Springer
… high relative drought survival will not be affected by dry season drought. We also hypothesize
that seedlings of species typically found in dry sites will show a lower impact of drought on …

Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels

MJ O'Brien, S Leuzinger, CD Philipson, J Tay… - Nature climate …, 2014 - nature.com
… a survival advantage to tropical tree seedlings under drought… a larger change in drought
survival than that resulting from … that interspecific differences in drought resistance are also due …

Seedling traits determine drought tolerance of tropical tree species

L Poorter, L Markesteijn - Biotropica, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… how seedling traits affect drought survival, and how drought … Here, we compare seedling
functional traits of 38 tropical tree … the ability of 36 species to survive drought under standardized …

Why seedlings survive: influence of plant attributes

SC Grossnickle - New Forests, 2012 - Springer
… The following discussion focuses on physiological attributes that allow seedlings to survive
conditions of drought, frost and nutrient dynamics just after planting on a forest restoration site…

High temperature and drought stress effects on survival of Pinus ponderosa seedlings

PF Kolb, R Robberecht - Tree physiology, 1996 - academic.oup.com
… temperature and drought on the survival, growth and water relations of seedlings of Pinus …
Lawson, one of few coniferous tree species that can successfully colonize drought-prone sites …

Influence of container nursery regimes on drought resistance of seedlings following planting. I. Survival and growth

R Driessche - Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 1991 - cdnsciencepub.com
… The purpose of this work was to see whether temperature and drought treatments applied
to container nursery seedlings influenced drought resistance as measured by survival and …

Turgor loss point predicts survival responses to experimental and natural drought in tropical tree seedlings

L Álvarez‐Cansino, LS Comita, FA Jones… - 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… π tlp and seedling drought resistance. Using long-term forest plot data, we also show that
π tlp predicts seedling survival responses to a severe El Niño-related drought, although …

Tolerance to low leaf water status of tropical tree seedlings is related to drought performance and distribution

TA Kursar, BMJ Engelbrecht, A Burke… - Functional …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… the role of drought resistance in drought performance. We define drought resistance as the
suite of traits that support survival under conditions of a single stress, low water availability. …

Drought mortality of tree seedlings in an eroded tropical pasture

C Martínez‐Garza, W Tobon, J Campo… - Land Degradation & …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… In this study, one late-successional species with high survival had an initial seedling size
and growth rates comparable with those of pioneers (Platymiscium), whereas two later-…

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

N McDowell, WT Pockman, CD Allen… - New …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… Mortality by hydraulic failure per se may occur for isohydric seedlings or trees near their …
must a drought be to kill a tree; and during drought, which trees will die and which will survive? …