Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements.

By D. Breshears, O. Myers, C. W. Meyer, F. J. Barnes, C. Zou, C. Allen, Nathan G. McDowell, W. Pockman. 2009

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How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses (2013, background): “In the Southwestern USA, this species has undergone large-scale drought-related mortality during the last 10 years (Breshears et al. 2009).”
Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States (2016, background): “The drought in the early 2000s that coincided with outbreaks of several bark beetle species created conditions of severe water stress (Gaylord et al., 2007; Breshears et al., 2009; Negrón et al., 2009), as it was one of the most severe droughts in the past 500 years in many parts of the interior wes”
Species-specific water use by forest tree species: from the tree to the stand (2012, background): “This issue is of great relevance as forest die-back in same cases (Carnicer et al., 2011), or even important phenomena of mortality (Linares et al., 2010) seem to have accelerated and aggravated in the last decades (Breshears et al., 2009; Allen et al., 2010; Linares et al., 2011).”
Drought induced decline could portend widespread pine mortality at the xeric ecotone in managed mediterranean pine-oak woodlands (2014, background): “Accurate prediction of tree vulnerability to increasing water stress is challenging because many biotic and abiotic factors interact at different time scales and trees with symptoms of low vitality can recover from stress provided they do not fall below thresholds where irreversible damage occurs (S”
A global scale mechanistic model of photosynthetic capacity (LUNA V1.0) (2016, background): “Under prolonged drought, plants close their stomata and photosynthesis is greatly reduced (Bres- hears et al., 2008; McDowell, 2011).”
Disentangling the effect of competition, CO2 and climate on intrinsic water‐use efficiency and tree growth (2016, background): “Consequently, prolonged and severe drought could ultimately cause the death of the tree by carbon starvation, hydraulic failure or both (Br eda et al. 2006; Breshears et al. 2009; McDowell et al. 2011).”
The impact of precipitation change on nitrogen cycling in a semi-arid ecosystem (2014, background): “in ecosystem function would be greater beneath the crowns of pi~ non, which are more sensitive to changing water availability than juniper (Breshears et al. 2009).”
Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought (2009, background): “Our results imply that future warmer temperatures will not only increase background rates of tree mortality (13, 16), but also result in more frequent widespread vegetation die-off events (3, 35) through an exacerbation of metabolic stress associated with drought.”
Interdependence of chronic hydraulic dysfunction and canopy processes can improve integrated models of tree response to drought (2015, background): “Mortality in pi~non pine is associated with rapid (4 weeks or less) change in needle color from green to orange [Adams et al., 2009; Breshears et al., 2009; Gaylord tively slow (over years) in juniper based on loss of leaf area [Gaylord et al., 2013].”
Will a 385 million year‐struggle for light become a struggle for water and for carbon? – How trees may cope with more frequent climate change‐type drought events (2011, background): “Regional vegetation die-offs following severe drought have had differential impacts on vegetation (Breshears et al., 2005, 2009) and could, if reoccurring periodically, lead to a regional extinction of the less drought-resistant species and thereby to a shift in species composition of the forest…”
A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones (2017, background): “…already led to drought-induced forest mortality in the Mediterranean climatic zone in Southwestern Europe, continental North America and Australia, (Pe~nuelas, Lloret & Montoya 2001; Lloret, Siscart & Dalmases 2004; Breshears et al. 2009; Matusick et al. 2013; Nardini, Battistuzzo & Savi 2013).”