Prolonged drought duration, not intensity, reduces growth recovery and prevents compensatory growth of oak trees

P Lv, T Rademacher, X Huang, B Zhang… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Global forests suffer from increasing drought pressure, as drought are more intense, and last
for longer, and occur more frequently, but how drought intensity and duration affect post …

The phenotypic and genetic effects of drought-induced stress on apical growth, ring width, wood density and biomass in white spruce seedlings

A Soro, P Lenz, JR Roussel, F Larochelle, J Bousquet… - New Forests, 2023 - Springer
Forest plantations play an important role in maintaining a supply of high-quality timber from
managed forest. With an expected increase in the prevalence of drought in some forested …

Radiation, air temperature, and soil water availability drive tree water deficit across temporal scales in Canada's western boreal forest

N Perron, JL Baltzer, M Detto… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes are projected for the boreal biome with complex and variable effects on
forest vegetation including drought‐induced tree mortality and forest loss. With soil and …

Applying space‐for‐time substitution to infer the growth response to climate may lead to overestimation of tree maladaptation: Evidence from the North American White …

F Wu, Y Jiang, S Zhao, Y Wen, W Li… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Under climate change circumstances, increasing studies have reported the temporal
instability of tree growth responses to climate, which poses a major challenge to linearly …

[HTML][HTML] Forward modelling of white spruce radial growth at trailing edge demonstrates high plasticity

BJ Mood, CP Laroque - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate conditions throughout the 21st century across much of western Canada's boreal
forest have been drier than normal leading to significant impacts on forest productivity and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impact of multi-year droughts on German forests in the context of increased tree mortality

A Holtmann, A Huth, F Bohn, R Fischer - Ecological Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Forests play a crucial role in climate regulation and societal well-being. Despite their
significance, the increasing frequency of droughts poses a severe threat to forest …

Comparison of tree-growth drought legacies of three shelterbelt species in the Canadian Prairies

CM Canning, BJ Mood, B Bonsal, B Howat… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Across western Canada, more frequent and severe droughts are expected to occur as a
result of climate change. Forests are particularly vulnerable to drought as it often results in …

Effectiveness of thinning in mitigating post-drought legacy effects on Chinese fir in subtropical plantation forests, Southeastern China

R Liang, Y Wang, Y Sun, R Li - Dendrochronologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Legacy effects following drought are widely detected across worldwide forests, significantly
affecting the growth recovery and susceptibility of trees after droughts. Thinning is a common …

Assessing spatial distribution and quantification of native trees in Saskatchewan's prairie landscape using remote sensing techniques

E Shafeian, BJ Mood, KW Belcher… - European Journal of …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
The importance of trees in non-forest landscapes has been the focus of only a few studies.
However, these trees provide many important ecosystem services. In this study, we mapped …

Tree characteristics, drought and microtopography modulate the response of subtropical Cunninghamia lanceolata to drought

R Liang, Y Sun, Z zhu, R Li - European Journal of Forest Research, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Knowledge of how different drivers affect tree responses to drought is
unprecedentedly imperative in the context of increasing frequency and severity of climatic …