Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

NG McDowell, G Sapes, A Pivovaroff… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-
decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate …

Integrating plant physiology into simulation of fire behavior and effects

LT Dickman, AK Jonko, RR Linn, I Altintas… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to
changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of …

Processes and mechanisms of coastal woody‐plant mortality

NG McDowell, M Ball, B Bond‐Lamberty… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Observations of woody plant mortality in coastal ecosystems are globally widespread, but
the overarching processes and underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. This …

Coordination of stem and leaf traits define different strategies to regulate water loss and tolerance ranges to aridity

R López, FJ Cano, NK Martin‐StPaul… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptation to drought involves complex interactions of traits that vary within and among
species. To date, few data are available to quantify within‐species variation in functional …

Living on the edge: A continental‐scale assessment of forest vulnerability to drought

JMR Peters, R López, M Nolf, LB Hutley… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, forests are facing an increasing risk of mass tree mortality events associated with
extreme droughts and higher temperatures. Hydraulic dysfunction is considered a key …

Interactions between beech and oak seedlings can modify the effects of hotter droughts and the onset of hydraulic failure

E Mas, H Cochard, J Deluigi, M Didion‐Gency… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Leaf shedding and non-stomatal limitations of photosynthesis mitigate hydraulic conductance losses in scots pine saplings during severe drought stress

D Nadal-Sala, R Grote, B Birami, T Knüver… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
During drought, trees reduce water loss and hydraulic failure by closing their stomata, which
also limits photosynthesis. Under severe drought stress, other acclimation mechanisms are …

Root water uptake depth determines the hydraulic vulnerability of temperate European tree species during the extreme 2018 drought

A Kahmen, D Basler, G Hoch, RM Link, B Schuldt… - Plant …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We took advantage of the European 2018 drought and assessed the mechanisms causing
differences in drought vulnerability among mature individuals of nine co‐occurring tree …

Model-assisted ideotyping reveals trait syndromes to adapt viticulture to a drier climate

S Dayer, LJ Lamarque, R Burlett, G Bortolami… - Plant …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Climate change is challenging the resilience of grapevine (Vitis), one of the most important
crops worldwide. Adapting viticulture to a hotter and drier future will require a multifaceted …

Where do leaf water leaks come from? Trade‐offs underlying the variability in minimum conductance across tropical savanna species with contrasting growth …

R Machado, L Loram‐Lourenço, FS Farnese… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plants continue to lose water from their leaves even after complete stomatal closure.
Although this minimum conductance (gleaf‐res) has substantial impacts on strategies of …