Drought as an Inciting Mortality Factor in Scots Pine Stands of the Valais, Switzerland

By C. Bigler, O. Bräker, Harald Bugmann, Matthias Dobbertin, A. Rigling. Ecosystems, 2006

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Selective drought-induced decline of pine species in southeastern Spain (2012, methodology): “However, the use of annual precipitation as an estimate of water availability is misleading (Alavi 1996), and this variable should be replaced by biologically meaningful drought indices taking into account local conditions such as the ability of soils to store water (Bigler et al. 2006).”
Pine mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. austriacum) contributes to Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) mortality in the Rhone valley of Switzerland (2006, background): “Bigler et al. (2006) modelled mortality risk from tree ring width of dead and alive pines in Valais.”
Are Scots pine forest edges particularly prone to drought-induced mortality? (2018, background): “…tree species in environmental sciences, (iii) of high economic importance for forestry, and (iv) increasingly affectedbydrought-induceddie-back (Bigler et al2006, Cienciala et al 2002, Dobbertin et al 2005, 2007, 2010, Dobbertin and Rigling 2006, Eilmann et al 2010, 2011, 2013, Galiano et al…”
Growth, carbon‐isotope discrimination, and drought‐associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect (2010, background): “1 505 665 2909, fax 1 505 lez, 2001; Suarez et al., 2004; Bigler et al., 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…”
Rapid mortality of Populus tremuloides in southwestern Colorado, USA (2008, background): “Tree mortality may occur years after an inciting drought (Bigler et al., 2006).”
Growth patterns and sensitivity to climate predict silver fir decline in the Spanish Pyrenees (2012, background): “The growth curves of dead and living Scots pine trees at three different sites in the Swiss Valais started to diverge between 10 and 20 years prior to death (Bigler et al. 2006).”
Assessing the role of bark‐ and wood‐boring insects in the decline of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) in the Swiss Rhone valley (2008, background): “It has also been related to tree growth ( Dobbertin, 2005 ), which in turn correlates with tree mortality (Bigler et al. , 2006).”
Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low‐growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests (2011, unknown): “…that drought events may cause signiﬁ cant ecophysiological memory eﬀ ects (Pe ñ uelas et al. 2000, Galiano et al. 2011) and delayed tree mortality (Bigler et al 2006, 2007, McDowell et al. 2010, Galiano et al. 2011), our knowledge of the extent to which uncharacteristic forest responses are…”
Extreme drought alters competitive dominance within and between tree species in a mixed forest stand (2013, background): “…linked extreme events to increased risk of mortality, reduction in growth of ecosystem dominant species, reduction in ecosystem primary productivity and alteration of eco- hydrological regimes (Breshears et al. 2005; Ciais et al. 2005; Bigler et al. 2006; Gitlin et al. 2006; Adams et al. 2012).”
From xylogenesis to tree rings: wood traits to investigate tree response to environmental changes (2019, background): “This approach is rooted in the search of early-warning signals which would allow forecasting when and where forest die-back and abnormally high mortality rates would occur (Bigler et al. 2006, 2007; Camarero et al. 2015; Cailleret et al. 2019).”
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).”