Variation in xylem vulnerability to cavitation shapes the photosynthetic legacy of drought

V Tonet, T Brodribb, I Bourbia - Plant, Cell & Environment, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Increased drought conditions impact tree health, negatively disrupting plant water transport
which, in turn, affects plant growth and survival. Persistent drought legacy effects have been …

Compound soil and atmospheric drought (CSAD) events and  fluxes of a mixed deciduous forest: the occurrence, impact, and temporal contribution of main drivers

L Scapucci, A Shekhar, S Aranda-Barranco… - …, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
With global warming, forests are increasingly exposed to “compound soil and atmospheric
drought”(CSAD) events, characterized by low soil water content (SWC) and high vapour …

[HTML][HTML] Post-windthrow differences of carbon and water fluxes between managed and unmanaged Norway spruce stands

P Petrík, P Fleischer Jr, J Tomes, V Pichler… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
Windthrow is a major forest disturbance source in Europe. The impact of management
(salvage logging) and no-management (deadwood left in ecosystem) treatments on carbon …

Linking stomatal size and density to water use efficiency and leaf carbon isotope ratio in juvenile and mature trees

P Petrik, A Petek-Petrik, LJ Lamarque, PA Waite… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Water-use efficiency (WUE) is affected by multiple leaf traits, including stomatal morphology.
However, the impact of stomatal morphology on WUE across different ontogenetic stages of …