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 …
understanding the impacts of drought on forest ecosystems, including carbon (C) cycle …
[HTML][HTML] Managing the forest-water nexus for climate change adaptation
Climate change can directly affect forest hydrology by altering precipitation,
evapotranspiration, and streamflow generation, or indirectly by changing disturbance …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
legacies, particularly in semi-arid, coniferous ecosystems. Such legacies are usually …
Overestimated gains in water‐use efficiency by global forests
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 …
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 …
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 …
yet climate factors controlling tree growth at semiarid treelines are poorly understood. We …