The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality.

By Nathan G. McDowell, D. Beerling, D. Breshears, R. Fisher, K. Raffa, Mark Stitt. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine? (2012, background): “Thus C starvation and hydraulic failure may be inextricably linked as causes of drought-induced plant mortality rather than being alternative mechanisms (McDowell et al. 2011).”
Plant responses to rising vapor pressure deficit. (2020, background): “…ways, these include; carbon deficits via negative net primary production (NPP) or declines in growth efficiency and water stress via hydraulic failure, in addition to mortality via non-VPD related processes such as heat stress or light competition (Prentice et al., 2007; McDowell et al., 2011).”
Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States (2016, background): “carbon starvation and hydraulic failure (McDowell et al., 2011; Tague et al., 2013).”
Impacts of climate change on plant diseases—opinions and trends (2012, background): “Regional tree declines due to drought, new pathogens and existing pests, and the interactions between these factors, can have negative repercussions on biodiversity (Fischer et al. 2010; Parks and Bernier 2010; Tomback and Achuff 2010; Carnicer et al. 2011; McDowell et al. 2011).”
Tree mortality following drought in the central and southern Sierra Nevada, California, U.S. (2019, background): “Drought reduces carbon assimilation, water transport, and thus synthesis and mobilization of oleoresin (McDowell et al., 2011; Sala et al., 2012).”
Modeling plant–water interactions: an ecohydrological overview from the cell to the global scale (2016, background): “The permanent hydraulic failure of vascular transport and carbon starvation because of exhaustion or impossibility to access NSC or a combination of these mechanisms have been hypothesized as reasons for plant mortality.(244,245) Recent evidence supports an earlier occurrence of hydraulic failure an”