Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling

SA Kannenberg, CR Schwalm… - Ecology letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐year lags in tree drought recovery, termed 'drought legacy effects', are important for
understanding the impacts of drought on forest ecosystems, including carbon (C) cycle …

[HTML][HTML] Managing the forest-water nexus for climate change adaptation

M Zhang, S Liu, J Jones, G Sun, X Wei, D Ellison… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change can directly affect forest hydrology by altering precipitation,
evapotranspiration, and streamflow generation, or indirectly by changing disturbance …

Rapid increases in shrubland and forest intrinsic water-use efficiency during an ongoing megadrought

SA Kannenberg, AW Driscoll… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Globally, intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) has risen dramatically over the past century in
concert with increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration. This increase could be further …

Tree growth sensitivity to climate is temporally variable

DMP Peltier, K Ogle - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a long history of discussion of 'non‐stationarity'in dendrochronology, researchers
and modellers in diverse fields commonly rely on the implicit assumption that tree growth …

Compiled records of atmospheric CO2 concentrations and stable carbon isotopes to reconstruct climate and derive plant ecophysiological indices from tree rings

S Belmecheri, A Lavergne - Dendrochronologia, 2020 - Elsevier
The stable carbon isotopic composition (δ 13 C) measured in tree rings is a standard proxy
for paleoclimate reconstructions and is increasingly being used as a paleophysiological …

The North American Monsoon buffers forests against the ongoing megadrought in the Southwestern United States

BM Strange, RK Monson, P Szejner… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The US Southwest has been entrenched in a two‐decade‐long megadrought (MD), the most
severe since 800 CE, which threatens the long‐term vitality and persistence of regional …

Recent increases in drought frequency cause observed multi-year drought legacies in the tree rings of semi-arid forests

P Szejner, S Belmecheri, JR Ehleringer, RK Monson - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Recent analyses on the length of drought recovery in forests have shown multi-year
legacies, particularly in semi-arid, coniferous ecosystems. Such legacies are usually …

Overestimated gains in water‐use efficiency by global forests

XY Gong, WT Ma, YZ Yu, K Fang, Y Yang… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in terrestrial water‐use efficiency (WUE) have been reported in many studies,
pointing to potential changes in physiological forcing of global carbon and hydrological …

Precipitation alters the CO2 effect on water‐use efficiency of temperate forests

S Belmecheri, RS Maxwell, AH Taylor… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing water‐use efficiency (WUE), the ratio of carbon gain to water loss, is a key
mechanism that enhances carbon uptake by terrestrial vegetation under rising atmospheric …

Different climate sensitivity for radial growth, but uniform for tree-ring stable isotopes along an aridity gradient in Polylepis tarapacana, the world's highest elevation …

M Rodriguez-Caton, L Andreu-Hayles… - Tree …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tree growth is generally considered to be temperature limited at upper elevation treelines,
yet climate factors controlling tree growth at semiarid treelines are poorly understood. We …