The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

JS Clark, L Iverson, CW Woodall, CD Allen… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize insights from current understanding of drought impacts at stand‐to‐
biogeographic scales, including management options, and we identify challenges to be …

Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change

G Moreau, C Chagnon, A Achim, J Caspersen… - Forestry, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We reviewed recent literature to identify the positive and negative effects of thinning on both
stand-and tree-level resistance and resilience to four stressors that are expected to increase …

Long‐term climate and competition explain forest mortality patterns under extreme drought

DJN Young, JT Stevens, JM Earles, J Moore… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Rising temperatures are amplifying drought‐induced stress and mortality in forests globally.
It remains uncertain, however, whether tree mortality across drought‐stricken landscapes …

Potential of forest thinning to mitigate drought stress: A meta-analysis

JA Sohn, S Saha, J Bauhus - Forest Ecology and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Increasing frequency of extremely dry and hot summers in some regions emphasise the
need for silvicultural approaches to increase the drought tolerance of existing forests in the …

Competition amplifies drought stress in forests across broad climatic and compositional gradients

KE Gleason, JB Bradford, A Bottero, AW D'Amato… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Forests around the world are experiencing increasingly severe droughts and elevated
competitive intensity due to increased tree density. However, the influence of interactions …

Scaling ecological resilience

DA Falk, AC Watts, AE Thode - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Rapid climate change and altered disturbance regimes represent increasing stressors to the
stability of existing ecosystems. Resilience is a widely used framework for post-disturbance …

Thinning, tree-growth, and resistance to multi-year drought in a mixed-conifer forest of northern California

MJ Vernon, RL Sherriff, P van Mantgem… - Forest Ecology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Drought is an important stressor in forest ecosystems that can influence tree vigor and
survival. In the US, forest managers use two primary management techniques to promote …

Spatial-temporal characteristics analysis of water resource system resilience in irrigation areas based on a support vector machine model optimized by the modified …

D Liu, M Li, Y Ji, Q Fu, M Li, MA Faiz, S Ali, T Li, S Cui… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aims to address a series of problems with agricultural irrigation water shortages
and the poor efficiency of irrigation water use in severely colder irrigation areas in China. For …

Tree resistance to drought and bark beetle-associated mortality following thinning and prescribed fire treatments

AA Bernal, JM Kane, EE Knapp, HSJ Zald - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Long-term trends show increased tree mortality over the last several decades, coinciding
with above-average temperatures, high climatic water deficits, and bark beetle outbreaks …

Does prescribed fire promote resistance to drought in low elevation forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?

PJ van Mantgem, AC Caprio, NL Stephenson, AJ Das - Fire ecology, 2016 - Springer
Prescribed fire is a primary tool used to restore western forests following more than a century
of fire exclusion, reducing fire hazard by removing dead and live fuels (small trees and …