Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

N McDowell, CD Allen, K Anderson‐Teixeira… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
mortality drivers in tropical forests, most appear to be increasing in potential or frequency,
and there is reasonable evidence to conclude that risks to continued increases in tree mortality

[PDF][PDF] Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

K Anderson-Teixeira, P Brando, C Doughty - New Phytologist, 2018 - ipam.org.br
mortality drivers in tropical forests, most appear to be increasing in potential or frequency,
and there is reasonable evidence to conclude that risks to continued increases in tree mortality

Tropical tree mortality has increased with rising atmospheric water stress

D Bauman, C Fortunel, G Delhaye, Y Malhi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
… However, the mechanisms that may be driving such mortality … -year record of tree dynamics
from 24 old-growth forest plots … cause of increasing tree mortality in moist tropical forests. …

Implications of size-dependent tree mortality for tropical forest carbon dynamics

EM Gora, A Esquivel-Muelbert - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
… of mortality; it is difficult to assign mechanisms of mortality … different drivers of tree mortality
rates across a continuum of treedrivers of mortality in intact moist and wet tropical forests, but …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping tree mortality rate in a tropical moist forest using multi-temporal LiDAR

C Huertas, D Sabatier, G Derroire, B Ferry… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
… Several studies have shown an increase in tree mortality in intact tropical forests in recent …
further help identify likely environmental drivers of the variability of forest turnover rates, even if…

Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits

I Aleixo, D Norris, L Hemerik, A Barbosa, E Prata… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
… carbon starvation or a combination of both mechanisms 27 . … is a strong driver of Amazon
tree mortality, whereas functional … tropical forests, by increasing tree mortality 5,19 , variations in …

Tree mode of death and mortality risk factors across Amazon forests

A Esquivel-Muelbert, OL Phillips, RJW Brienen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… of tropical forests is substantially affected by tree mortality. … of different mechanisms to tree
mortality across Amazonia … that drought is a significant driver of tree death only in the dry …

Drought-induced tree mortality: ecological consequences, causes, and modeling

W Wang, C Peng, DD Kneeshaw… - Environmental …, 2012 - cdnsciencepub.com
tree mortality mechanisms? Several hypotheses for the underlying mechanisms of
drought-induced tree mortality … -induced tree mortality (or other climate driver induced tree

Changing ecology of tropical forests: evidence and drivers

SL Lewis, J Lloyd, S Sitch, ETA Mitchard… - Annual Review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
… Three of these drivers could potentially alter multiple mechanisms that may affect … Such
increases are to varying degrees balanced by ongoing biomass losses from tree mortality, …

Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates

NL Stephenson, PJ Van Mantgem… - Ecological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
mechanism controls geographic patterns of tree mortality … about mechanisms driving
geographic patterns of tree mortality … agents of tree mortality at BCI or in other tropical forests, it is …