Tree mortality events driven by drought and warmer temperature, often amplified by pests
and pathogens, are emerging as one of the predominant climate change impacts on plants.
Understanding and predicting widespread tree mortality events in the future is vital as they
affect ecosystem goods and services provided by forests and woodlands, including carbon
storage needed to help offset warming. Additionally, if extensive enough, tree die-off events
can influence not only local climate but also climate and vegetation elsewhere via …