Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

By William R. L. Anderegg, T. Klein, M. Bartlett, L. Sack, A. Pellegrini, B. Choat, S. Jansen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016

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Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests (2020, background): “Species’hydraulic traits have been shown to explain patterns in mortality risk within ecological communities (58, 59), which provides a promising avenue for using widely measured plant functional traits in permanence risk assessments.”
Shifts in plant functional composition following long‐term drought in grasslands (2019, background): “…shift in abundance in response to environmental change (e.g. conservative leaf water economic traits improve species tolerance to drought and warming; Anderegg et al., 2016; Soudzilovskaia et al., 2013), whereas other traits (or the same traits) are linked to specific ecosystem functions (e.g.…”
A synthesis of tree functional traits related to drought-induced mortality in forests across climatic zones (2017, background): “A meta-analysis by Anderegg et al. (2016) found that PLC was a better correlate of mortality for gymnosperms while wood density was better for angiosperms.”
Which trees die during drought? The key role of insect host‐tree selection (2019, background): “For example, a recent global analysis showed that tree mortality rates during drought were correlated with certain species‐specific hy - draulic traits (Anderegg et al., 2016).”
Plant resistance to drought depends on timely stomatal closure. (2017, background): “…a similar evolutionary trajectory under drought constraints, and that plants have increased their intrinsic embolism resistance to allow stomata to close later during drought, thereby maximising plant productivity (Cruiziat et al. 2002; Klein 2014; Skelton et al. 2015; Anderegg et al. 2016).”