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Title: Towards more accurate vegetation mortality predictions

Abstract

Predicting the fate of vegetation under changing climate is one of the major challenges of the climate modeling community. Here, terrestrial vegetation dominates the carbon and water cycles over land areas, and dramatic changes in vegetation cover resulting from stressful environmental conditions such as drought feed directly back to local and regional climate, potentially leading to a vicious cycle where vegetation recovery after a disturbance is delayed or impossible.

Authors:
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  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1342863
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-23785
Journal ID: ISSN 0829-318X
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Tree Physiology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 36; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0829-318X
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; Biological Science; Drought, Environmental stress, mortality mechanism, Tree survival, Tree vigor

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Sevanto, Sanna Annika, and Xu, Chonggang. Towards more accurate vegetation mortality predictions. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpw082.
Sevanto, Sanna Annika, & Xu, Chonggang. Towards more accurate vegetation mortality predictions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpw082
Sevanto, Sanna Annika, and Xu, Chonggang. Mon . "Towards more accurate vegetation mortality predictions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpw082. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1342863.
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abstractNote = {Predicting the fate of vegetation under changing climate is one of the major challenges of the climate modeling community. Here, terrestrial vegetation dominates the carbon and water cycles over land areas, and dramatic changes in vegetation cover resulting from stressful environmental conditions such as drought feed directly back to local and regional climate, potentially leading to a vicious cycle where vegetation recovery after a disturbance is delayed or impossible.},
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year = {Mon Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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