Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling

SA Kannenberg, CR Schwalm… - Ecology letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐year lags in tree drought recovery, termed 'drought legacy effects', are important for
understanding the impacts of drought on forest ecosystems, including carbon (C) cycle …

Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth

A Cabon, SA Kannenberg, A Arain, F Babst… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Uncertainties surrounding tree carbon allocation to growth are a major limitation to
projections of forest carbon sequestration and response to climate change. The prevalence …

A national tree-ring data repository for Canadian forests (CFS-TRenD): structure, synthesis, and applications

MP Girardin, XJ Guo, J Metsaranta… - Environmental …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Understanding the magnitude and cause of variation in tree growth and forest productivity is
central to sustainable forest management. Measurements of annual growth rings allow …

Linking drought legacy effects across scales: From leaves to tree rings to ecosystems

SA Kannenberg, KA Novick, MR Alexander… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Severe drought can cause lagged effects on tree physiology that negatively impact forest
functioning for years. These “drought legacy effects” have been widely documented in tree …

Tree growth sensitivity to climate is temporally variable

DMP Peltier, K Ogle - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a long history of discussion of 'non‐stationarity'in dendrochronology, researchers
and modellers in diverse fields commonly rely on the implicit assumption that tree growth …

Simulated net ecosystem productivity of subtropical forests and its response to climate change in Zhejiang Province, China

F Mao, H Du, G Zhou, J Zheng, X Li, Y Xu… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is an important index that indicates the carbon
sequestration capacity of forest ecosystems. However, the effect of climate change on the …

[HTML][HTML] The lagged effect and impact of soil moisture drought on terrestrial ecosystem water use efficiency

Y Ji, Y Li, N Yao, A Biswas, Y Zou, Q Meng, F Liu - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Water use efficiency (WUE) is an ecological indicator reflecting the link between carbon and
water cycles in terrestrial ecosystems, which is often affected by drought disturbance …

Enhanced leaf turnover and nitrogen recycling sustain CO2 fertilization effect on tree-ring growth

Y Guo, L Zhang, L Yang, W Shen, Y Pan… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Whether increased photosynthates under elevated atmospheric CO2 could translate into
sustained biomass accumulation in forest trees remains uncertain. Here we demonstrate …

Drought-induced decoupling between carbon uptake and tree growth impacts forest carbon turnover time

SA Kannenberg, A Cabon, F Babst… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ability of forests to withstand, and recover from, acute drought stress is a critical
uncertainty regarding the impacts of climate change on the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle, but it …

On the need to consider wood formation processes in global vegetation models and a suggested approach

AD Friend, AH Eckes-Shephard, P Fonti… - Annals of Forest …, 2019 - Springer
Key message Dynamic global vegetation models are key tools for interpreting and
forecasting the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climatic variation and other drivers …