Drought induces lagged tree mortality in a subalpine forest in the Rocky Mountains

By C. Bigler, D. Gavin, Charles Gunning, Thomas T. Veblen. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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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): “Drought is not always immediately lethal and tree mortality may occur years to decades after the actual drought event (e.g., Bigler et al., 2007).”
Growth patterns and sensitivity to climate predict silver fir decline in the Spanish Pyrenees (2012, background): “Previous works have suggested that declining trends of radial growth may be considered as reliable indicators of long-term stress and represent an additional risk factor for drought-induced tree decline (Dobbertin 2005; Bigler et al. 2007; Greenwood and Weisberg 2008).”
Competition modulates the adaptation capacity of forests to climatic stress: insights from recent growth decline and death in relict stands of the Mediterranean fir Abies pinsapo (2010, background): “Previous works have suggested that tree-to-tree competition, as a long-term predisposing stressor, may be an additional risk factor for drought-induced mortality in waterstressed areas (Bigler et al. 2007; Greenwood & Weisberg 2008).”
Extreme drought alters competitive dominance within and between tree species in a mixed forest stand (2013, result): “consistent with previous research showing higher drought mortality for poorly growing canopy trees (Peterken & Mountford 1996; Bigler et al. 2007; Das et al. 2007).”
A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones (2017, background): “Journal of Applied Ecology © 2017 British Ecological Society, Journal of Applied Ecology comparison of tree rings of dead and living trees after drought: high inter-annual growth variability and slow radial growth (Ogle, Whitham & Cobb 2000; Bigler et al. 2007).”
Contrasting vulnerability and resilience to drought-induced decline of densely planted vs. natural rear-edge Pinus nigra forests (2013, background): “The amount of green needles and carbon reserves may render a positive feedback that constrains the recovery of trees and explains the delayed effects of drought on tree growth, which have been reported elsewhere (e.g., Bréda et al., 2006; Bigler et al., 2007).”
An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research (2011, background): “…climate extreme, such as a heat wave or severe drought, may result in rapid mortality of populations or species (Weaver 1968; Breshears et al. 2005; Bigler et al. 2006, 2007; Gitlin et al. 2006; Miriti et al. 2007; Thibault & Brown 2008), large-scale and ⁄or long-term changes in community…”
The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects (2011, background): “…ecological responses driven by periods of climatic extremity, such as severe droughts and rapid changes in temperatures (Weaver 1968; Gitlin et al. 2006; Bigler et al. 2007; Williams, Blois & Shuman 2011), Williams and colleagues show that demonstrating causality remains a significant challenge.”
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).”
Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low‐growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests (2011, positive): “…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 related to the cumulative eﬀ ects of recurrent drought events remains limited (but see Lloret et al. 2004, Bigler et al. 2007).”