Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

NG McDowell, G Sapes, A Pivovaroff… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-
decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate …

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 …

A review of environmental droughts: Increased risk under global warming?

SM Vicente-Serrano, SM Quiring, M Peña-Gallardo… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves

DD Breshears, JB Fontaine, KX Ruthrof… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With climate change, heat waves are becoming increasingly frequent, intense and broader
in spatial extent. However, while the lethal effects of heat waves on humans are well …

Increased likelihood of heat-induced large wildfires in the Mediterranean Basin

J Ruffault, T Curt, V Moron, RM Trigo, F Mouillot… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Wildfire activity is expected to increase across the Mediterranean Basin because of climate
change. However, the effects of future climate change on the combinations of atmospheric …

Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century

JB Bradford, DR Schlaepfer, WK Lauenroth… - Global change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dryland ecosystems may be especially vulnerable to expected 21st century increases in
temperature and aridity because they are tightly controlled by moisture availability. However …

Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality

SM Hood, JM Varner, P Van Mantgem… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Each year wildland fires kill and injure trees on millions of forested hectares globally,
affecting plant and animal biodiversity, carbon storage, hydrologic processes, and …

The potential of coupled carbon storage and geothermal extraction in a CO2-enhanced geothermal system: a review

Y Wu, P Li - Geothermal Energy, 2020 - Springer
The increasing demand for energy makes it difficult to replace fossil fuels with low-carbon
energy sources in the short term, and the large amount of CO 2 emitted by fossil fuel …

Ability of seedlings to survive heat and drought portends future demographic challenges for five southwestern US conifers

JL Crockett, MD Hurteau - Tree Physiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Climate change and disturbance are altering forests and the rates and locations of tree
regeneration. In semi-arid forests of the southwestern USA, limitations imposed by hot and …

Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat

NG McDowell, C Grossiord, HD Adams… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Predictions of warmer droughts causing increasing forest mortality are becoming abundant,
yet few studies have investigated the mechanisms of forest persistence. To examine the …