Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality1[W]

By Nathan G. McDowell. Plant Physiology, 2011

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. F. Valladares
2. L. Sack
3. M. Bartlett
4. Nathan G. McDowell
5. C. Scoffoni
6. C. Baraloto
7. C. Körner
8. Kari O’Connell

In Plant Science

1. L. Sack
2. F. Valladares
3. M. Bartlett
4. C. Baraloto
5. C. Körner
6. Nathan G. McDowell
7. C. Scoffoni
8. I. Aranda

Citations in the corpus

• Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “(Even the relative contribution of hydraulic failure to tree mortality during extreme drought remains unclear [e.g., McDowell et al. 2008, Brodribb and Cochard 2009, Sala et al. 2010, Hoffmann et al. 2011, McDowell 2011].)”
• Paradigm shift in plant growth control. (2015, background): “[67]), although evidence points to a priority of hydration problems [68,69 ].”
• How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses (2013, background): “2010; McDowell 2011), and consistent with a hydraulic constraint on NSC consumption (McDowell & Sevanto 2010; Sala et al. 2010; McDowell 2011), respiration of slow-dying drought trees decreased with decreasing carbohydrate content (Fig.”
• Responses to drought stress in Prunus sargentii and Larix kaempferi seedlings using morphological and physiological parameters (2020, background): “Recent theoretical advances suggest that water stress can cause the failure of sugar transport in the phloem, limiting carbohydrate utilization and promoting mortality (McDowell and Sevanto 2010; Sala et al., 2010; McDowell, 2011; Hesse et al., 2018).”
• Species-specific water use by forest tree species: from the tree to the stand (2012, background): “Furthermore, hydraulic function has been underscored and is now claimed, together with the maintenance of a positive carbon balance, as the basis to understand the success of woody plants during acute water stress periods (Breshears et al., 2009; McDowell, 2011).”
• Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest (2015, positive): “…depend on drought response and the stability of the hydraulic func- tion (Tyree & Sperry 1989; Urli et al. 2013), the mobiliza- tion of non-structural carbohydrates and defence metabolism (McDowell 2011; Sevanto et al. 2014), all of which are poorly described (Powell et al. 2013; Xu et al. 2013).”
• Coupling between the terrestrial carbon and water cycles—a review (2019, background): “…ecosystem respiration but also through changes in disturbances such as fires (Williams et al 2014, Seager et al 2015, Williams and Abatzoglou 2016, Williams et al 2018), wind damage (Silvério et al 2019) or through large-scale mortality (McDowell 2011, Williams et al 2013, Adams et al 2017).”