Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth's forests

WM Hammond, AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Earth's forests face grave challenges in the Anthropocene, including hotter droughts
increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events. But despite the vital …

Compound droughts and hot extremes: Characteristics, drivers, changes, and impacts

Z Hao, F Hao, Y Xia, S Feng, C Sun, X Zhang, Y Fu… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Climate change impacts and adaptations of wine production

C van Leeuwen, G Sgubin, B Bois, N Ollat… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change is affecting grape yield, composition and wine quality. As a result, the
geography of wine production is changing. In this Review, we discuss the consequences of …

Intrinsic non-stomatal resilience to drought of the photosynthetic apparatus in Coffea spp. is strengthened by elevated air [CO2]

JN Semedo, AP Rodrigues, FC Lidon, IP Pais… - Tree …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Growing water restrictions associated with climate changes constitute daunting challenges
to crop performance. This study unveils the impacts of moderate (MWD) or severe (SWD) …

[HTML][HTML] Managing the forest-water nexus for climate change adaptation

M Zhang, S Liu, J Jones, G Sun, X Wei, D Ellison… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change can directly affect forest hydrology by altering precipitation,
evapotranspiration, and streamflow generation, or indirectly by changing disturbance …

Nitrogen addition delays the emergence of an aridity-induced threshold for plant biomass

H Li, C Terrer, M Berdugo, FT Maestre… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Crossing certain aridity thresholds in global drylands can lead to abrupt decays of
ecosystem attributes such as plant productivity, potentially causing land degradation and …

Tree allocation dynamics beyond heat and hot drought stress reveal changes in carbon storage, belowground translocation and growth

R Rehschuh, S Rehschuh, A Gast, AL Jakab… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Heatwaves combined with drought affect tree functioning with as yet undetermined legacy
effects on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) allocation. We continuously monitored shoot and root …

Physiological and Molecular Responses of Woody Plants Exposed to Future Atmospheric CO2 Levels under Abiotic Stresses

AKM Lobo, ICA Catarino, EA Silva, DC Centeno… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Climate change is mainly driven by the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the
atmosphere in the last century. Plant growth is constantly challenged by environmental …

Elevated CO2 enhanced water use efficiency of wheat to progressive drought stress but not on maize

Q Cao, G Li, F Liu - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Global rising atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) and drought stress exert profound
influences on crop growth and yield. The objective of the present study was to investigate …

Projected changes in reference evapotranspiration in California and Nevada: Implications for drought and wildland fire danger

DJ McEvoy, DW Pierce, JF Kalansky, DR Cayan… - Earth's …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent high impact wildfires and droughts in California and Nevada have been linked to
extremes in the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) and Standardized Precipitation …