Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

By Phillip J. van Mantgem, N. Stephenson, John C Byrne, L. Daniels, Janet Franklin, Peter Z. Fulé, M. Harmon, A. Larson, Jeremy Smith, A. Taylor and 1 more. Science, 2009

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Climate Change Impacts on Plant Pathogens and Plant Diseases (2014, background): “For example, extensive tree death events in North America have been associated with climate changes, that is, increased temperatures and changes in precipitation and moisture (Van Mantgem et al. 2009; Sturrock et al. 2011).”
How tree roots respond to drought (2015, background): “Increased mortality of trees during and after drought has been observed in recent years (van Mantgem et al., 2009; Anderegg et al., 2013b).”
Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes (2012, background): “While some forest inventories have revealed an increase in tree mortality associated with recent climate warming or dryness (e.g. van Mantgem et al., 2009), this result is far from the rule.”
Growth, carbon‐isotope discrimination, and drought‐associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect (2010, background): “…2006; van 665 3866; e-mail: mcdowell@lanl.gov Mantgem & Stephenson, 2007; McDowell et al., 2008a, r 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 1 Raffa et al., 2008; Fensham et al., 2009; Allen , 2009) and may be associated with increased surface temperatures (Breshears et al., 2005; van Mantgem et al., 2009).”
Ecological effects of extreme drought on Californian herbaceous plant communities (2016, background): “Observed ecological consequences include widespread increases in tree mortality (Breshears et al. 2005, van Mantgem et al. 2009, McDowell and Allen 2015), loss of primary productivity at both local and regional scales (Ciais et al. 2005, Zhao and Running 2010, Knapp et al. 2015), and reduced…”
Tree mortality in drought-stressed mixed-conifer and ponderosa pine forests, Arizona, USA (2011, background): “…tree morality and stand density in times of climatic stress, either across pace (Floyd et al., 2009) or time (van Mantgem and Stephenson, 007; van Mantgem et al., 2009), and Koepke et al. (2010) also ound that parent material did not influence recent tree mortality n the ecotone between…”
Extreme drought alters competitive dominance within and between tree species in a mixed forest stand (2013, background): “With changing environmental conditions, a competitive advantage for a dominant species may weaken, with increasing frequency and strength of drought conditions acting as a stabilizing mechanism favouring coexistence with otherwise less competitive spe- cies (Terradas, Pe~nuelas & Lloret 2009).”
Genome-wide responses to drought in forest trees (2011, background): “This may have a profound effect on forest health, as water limitation is one of the leading contributors to forest declines globally (Bigler et al., 2006; van Mantgem et al., 2009; Allen et al., 2010).”
Climate change and European forests: what do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management? (2014, background): “…populations, a comparably rapid response compared to the leading edge can be observed already, be it directly due to drought (Adams et al., 2009; Anderegg et al., 2013; van Mantgem et al., 2009; Allen et al., 2010), or due to secondary damage by forest insects and pathogens (Jactel et al., 2012).”
Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest (2011, background): “Across large areas of western North America, tree mortality has already increased, likely in response to the impacts of climatic warming and drought (van Mantgem et al., 2009) in combination with climatically induced, regional-scale outbreaks of bark beetles and other pests (Carroll et al., 2004;…”
Global gross primary productivity and water use efficiency changes under drought stress (2017, background): “…and regional scales such as in Europe (Peñuelas et al 2001, Bréda et al 2006, Bigler et al 2006), East Asia (Qiu 2010, Barriopedro et al 2012, Xin et al 2006), the United States (Clark et al 2016), eastern North America (Abrams and Nowacki 2016), and western North America (van Mantgem et al 2009).”