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Title: Research frontiers in drought-induced tree mortality: Crossing scales and disciplines

Journal Article · · New Phytologist
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13246· OSTI ID:1240429
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5]
  1. Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena (Germany)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)
  4. Ulm Univ., Ulm (Germany)
  5. Macquarie Univ., Sydney NSW (Australia)

Sudden and widespread forest die-back and die-off (e.g., Huang & Anderegg, 2012) and increased mortality rates (e.g., Peng et al., 2011) in many forest ecosystems across the globe have been linked to drought and elevated temperatures (Allen et al., 2010, Fig. 1). Furthermore, these observations have caused a focus on the physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality (e.g. McDowell et al., 2008) and many studies, both observational and manipulative, have been carried out to explain tree death during drought from a physiological perspective.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1240429
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1778395
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-14-29321
Journal Information:
New Phytologist, Vol. 205, Issue 3; ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher:
WileyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 102 works
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