What is hot in tree rings? The wood density of surviving Douglas-firs to the 2003 drought and heat wave

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Phenotypic plasticity in mesic populations of Pinus pinaster improves resistance to xylem embolism (P50) under severe drought (2011, background): “Sometimes, the adjustment in the ratio of conducting organs to transpiring leaf area allows the maintenance of a constant water potential and a constant cavitation rate (Mencuccini and Comstock 1997). When populations were sampled at their original habitat, no differences in P50 were observed either”
Intra-annual density fluctuations in tree rings: how, when, where, and why? (2016, background): “Trees that lack the capacity to promptly adjust their wood properties in response to climatic fluctuations are likely to be more vulnerable to drought (Martinez-Meier et al. 2008).”
Cambial activity, wood formation and sapling survival of Pinus halepensis exposed to different irrigation regimes (2011, background): “Therefore, any changes in the proportion of earlywood and latewood could very likely modify the hydraulic and mechanical properties of wood and such changes might affect future sapling development (de Micco et al., 2008; Martinez-Meier et al., 2008; Hoffmann et al., 2011).”
A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones (2017, background): “Wood density positively correlated with tree survival during the severe drought of 2003 in European temperate forests (Martinez-Meier et al. 2008; Nardini, Battistuzzo & Savi 2013).”