The role of height‐driven constraints and compensations on tree vulnerability to drought

L Fernández‐de‐Uña, J Martínez‐Vilalta… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Frequent observations of higher mortality in larger trees than in smaller ones during
droughts have sparked an increasing interest in size‐dependent drought‐induced mortality …

Drought increases Norway spruce susceptibility to the Eurasian spruce bark beetle and its associated fungi

S Netherer, L Lehmanski, A Bachlehner… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Drought affects the complex interactions between Norway spruce, the bark beetle Ips
typographus and associated microorganisms. We investigated the interplay of tree water …

Carbon starvation following a decade of experimental drought consumes old reserves in Pinus edulis

DMP Peltier, MS Carbone, CD McIntire… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in the age or turnover time of non‐structural carbohydrates (NSC) may underlie
changes in tree growth under long‐term increases in drought stress associated with climate …

Prolonged phloem feeding by the spotted lanternfly, an invasive planthopper, alters resource allocation and inhibits gas exchange in grapevines

AD Harner, HL Leach, L Briggs, M Centinari - Plant Direct, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula White; SLF) is a phloem‐feeding planthopper
invasive to the Eastern United States that can feed on a range of wild and cultivated plant …

Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory

S Klesse, F Babst, MEK Evans, A Hurley… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drought legacies in radial tree growth are an important feature of variability in biomass
accumulation and are widely used to characterize forest resilience to climate change …

Old reserves and ancient buds fuel regrowth of coast redwood after catastrophic fire

DMP Peltier, MS Carbone, M Enright, MC Marshall… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
For long-lived organisms, investment in insurance strategies such as reserve energy storage
can enable resilience to resource deficits, stress or catastrophic disturbance. Recent fire in …

Feasibility of enhancing carbon sequestration and stock capacity in temperate and boreal European forests via changes to management regimes

D Dalmonech, G Marano, JS Amthor, A Cescatti… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest management practices might act as nature-based methods to remove CO 2 from the
atmosphere and slow anthropogenic climate change and thus support an EU forest-based …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest

X Yu, R Orth, M Reichstein, M Bahn… - …, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
Droughts affect terrestrial ecosystems directly and concurrently and can additionally induce
lagged effects in subsequent seasons and years. Such legacy effects of drought on …

Large old trees increase growth under shifting climatic constraints: Aligning tree longevity and individual growth dynamics in primary mountain spruce forests

K Begović, JS Schurman, M Svitok… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In a world of accelerating changes in environmental conditions driving tree growth, tradeoffs
between tree growth rate and longevity could curtail the abundance of large old trees …

Anatomical distribution of starch in the stemwood influences carbon dynamics and suggests storage‐growth trade‐offs in some tropical trees

D Herrera‐Ramírez, H Hartmann… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Trees balance temporal asynchrony in carbon source and sink activity by accumulating and
using non‐structural carbon (NSC). Previous work has demonstrated differences in the …