A species' response to spatial climatic variation does not predict its response to climate change

DL Perret, MEK Evans, DF Sax - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The dominant paradigm for assessing ecological responses to climate change assumes that
future states of individuals and populations can be predicted by current, species-wide …

Legacies of more frequent drought in ponderosa pine across the western United States

DMP Peltier, K Ogle - Global change biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Despite widespread interest in drought legacies—multiyear impacts of drought on tree
growth—the key implication of reported drought legacies remains unaddressed: as impaired …

Drought-mediated changes in tree physiological processes weaken tree defenses to bark beetle attack

T Kolb, K Keefover-Ring, SJ Burr, R Hofstetter… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - Springer
Interactions between water stress and induced defenses and their role in tree mortality due
to bark beetles are poorly understood. We performed a factorial experiment on 48 mature …

Drivers of population differentiation in phenotypic plasticity in a temperate conifer: A 27‐year study

R de la Mata, R Zas, G Bustingorri… - Evolutionary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic plasticity is a main mechanism for organisms to cope with changing
environments and broaden their ecological range. Plasticity is genetically based and can …

Quantifying antecedent climatic drivers of tree growth in the Southwestern US

DMP Peltier, JJ Barber, K Ogle - Journal of Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in antecedent (past) climate conditions is likely to govern tree growth over long
periods of time. Antecedent conditions are rarely considered in models of tree growth …

Trade-off between growth rate and water use efficiency in southwestern ponderosa pine provenances

A Dixit, T Kolb, O Burney - Forest Ecology and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigated growth and a suite of physiological and structural traits of ponderosa pine
(Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson var. scopulorum Engelm.) seedlings from different …

Drivers and implications of distance decay differ for ectomycorrhizal and foliar endophytic fungi across an anciently fragmented landscape

EA Bowman, AE Arnold - The ISME Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Fungal communities associated with plants often decrease in similarity as the distance
between sampling sites increases (ie, they demonstrate distance decay). In the …

Coalescent‐based species delimitation in North American pinyon pines using low‐copy nuclear genes and plastomes

JR Montes, P Peláez, A Moreno‐Letelier… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Accurate species delimitation is essential for evolutionary biology, conservation,
and biodiversity management. We studied species delimitation in North American pinyon …

Complexities in predicting mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle response to climate change

BJ Bentz, EM Hansen, M Davenport… - Bark beetle management …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) and spruce beetle (D. rufipennis) are two
significant native tree mortality agents with expansive distributions throughout North …

Provenance variation in early survival, growth, and carbon isotope discrimination of southwestern ponderosa pine growing in three common gardens across an …

A Dixit, T Kolb, O Burney, K Mock, K Grady - Forests, 2021 - mdpi.com
We investigated early survival, growth, and carbon isotope discrimination of ponderosa pine
(Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson var. scopulorum Engelm.) seedlings from different …