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 …

Climate change risks to global forest health: emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide

H Hartmann, A Bastos, AJ Das… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and
drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack …

Central and south america

EJ Castellanos, MF Lemos, L Astigarraga, N Chacón… - 2022 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
Central and South America (CSA) is a highly diverse region, both culturally and biologically.
It has one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the planet (Hoorn et al., 2010; Zador et al …

Sensitivity of South American tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly

AC Bennett, T Rodrigues de Sousa… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The tropical forest carbon sink is known to be drought sensitive, but it is unclear which
forests are the most vulnerable to extreme events. Forests with hotter and drier baseline …

Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

N McDowell, CD Allen, K Anderson‐Teixeira… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Tree mortality rates appear to be increasing in moist tropical forests (MTF s) with significant
carbon cycle consequences. Here, we review the state of knowledge regarding MTF tree …

How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity

X Feng, C Merow, Z Liu, DS Park, PR Roehrdanz… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Biodiversity contributes to the ecological and climatic stability of the Amazon Basin,, but is
increasingly threatened by deforestation and fire,. Here we quantify these impacts over the …

Tree mortality across biomes is promoted by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf area

S Greenwood, P Ruiz‐Benito, J Martínez‐Vilalta… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drought events are increasing globally, and reports of consequent forest mortality are
widespread. However, due to a lack of a quantitative global synthesis, it is still not clear …

Artificial neural networks in drought prediction in the 21st century–A scientometric analysis

A Dikshit, B Pradhan, M Santosh - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Droughts are the most spatially complex geohazard, which often lasts for years, thereby
severely impacting socio-economic sectors. One of the critical aspects of drought studies is …

Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits

I Aleixo, D Norris, L Hemerik, A Barbosa, E Prata… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Tree mortality appears to be increasing in moist tropical forests, with potentially important
implications for global carbon and water cycles. Little is known about the drivers of tree …