Plant functional traits are powerful ecological tools, but the relationships between plant traits
and climate (or environmental variables more broadly) are often remarkably weak. This …

Plants are critical mediators of terrestrial mass and energy fluxes, and their structural and
functional traits have profound impacts on local and global climate, biogeochemistry …

Climate change-driven increases in drought frequency and severity could compromise forest
ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink,–. While the impacts of single droughts on forests …

Drought‐induced tree mortality is projected to increase due to climate change, which will
have manifold ecological and societal impacts including the potential to weaken or reverse …

The response of forests to climate change depends in part on whether the photosynthetic
benefit from increased atmospheric CO2 (∆ Ca= future minus historic CO2) compensates for …

Plants are expected to face increasing water stress under future climate change. Most land
surface models, including Noah‐MP, employ an idealized “big‐leaf” concept to regulate …

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 …

Mixing species with contrasting resource use strategies could reduce forest vulnerability to
extreme events. Yet, how species diversity affects seedling hydraulic responses to heat and …

Global warming is expected to exacerbate the duration and intensity of droughts in the
western United States, which may lead to increased tree mortality. A prevailing proximal …

Relationships among productivity, leaf phenology, and seasonal variation in moisture and
light availability are poorly understood for evergreen broadleaved tropical/subtropical …