A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

Nature Ecology and Evolution - Tập 1 Số 9 - Trang 1285-1291
Henry D. Adams1, Melanie Zeppel2, William R. L. Anderegg3, Henrik Hartmann4, Simon M. Landhäusser5, David T. Tissue6, Travis E. Huxman7, Patrick J. Hudson8, Trenton E. Franz9, Craig D. Allen10, Leander D. L. Anderegg11, G. Barron-Gafford12, David J. Beerling13, David D. Breshears14, Timothy J. Brodribb15, Harald Bugmann16, Richard C. Cobb17, Adam Collins18, L. Turin Dickman18, Honglang Duan19, B. E. Ewers20, Lucía Galiano21, David A. Gálvez5, Núria Garcia‐Forner22, Monica L. Gaylord23, Matthew J. Germino24, Arthur Geßler25, Uwe G. Hacke5, Rodrigo Hakamada26, Andy Hector27, Michael W. Jenkins28, Jeffrey M. Kane29, Thomas E. Kolb23, Darin J. Law14, James D. Lewis30, Jean Marc Limousin31, David M. Love3, Alison K. Macalady32, Jordi Martínez‐Vilalta33, Maurizio Mencuccini33, Patrick J. Mitchell34, J. D. Muss18, Michael J. O’Brien35, Anthony P. O’Grady34, Robert E. Pangle8, Elizabeth A. Pinkard34, Frida I. Piper36, J. Plaut8, William T. Pockman8, Joe Quirk13, Keith Reinhardt37, Francesco Ripullone38, Michael G. Ryan39, Anna Sala40, Sanna Sevanto18, John S. Sperry3, Rodrigo Vargas41, M. Vennetier42, Danielle A. Way43, Chonggang Xu18, Enrico A. Yépez44, Nate G. McDowell45
1Department of Plant Biology, Ecology and Evolution, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
2Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
3Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
4Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, 7745, Germany
5Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada
6Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, 2751, Australia
7Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
8Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA,
9School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, 68583, USA
10U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, New Mexico Landscapes Field Station, Los Alamos, NM, 87544, USA
11Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
12B2 Earthscience, Biosphere 2, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
13Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
14School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
15School of Biology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
16Forest Ecology, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland
17Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
18Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
19Institute of Ecology and Environmental Science, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330099, China
20Department of Botany and Program in Ecology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA
21Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, 75007, Sweden
22Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, 3000-456, Portugal
23School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
24U.S. Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Boise, ID, 83702, USA
25Forest Dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland
26Department of Forest Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, 13418900, Brazil
27Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RB, UK
28Environmental Studies Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
29Department of Forestry and Wildland Resources, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521, USA
30Louis Calder Center - Biological Field Station and Department of Biological Sciences, Fordham University, Armonk, NY, 10504, USA
31Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier, 34293, France
32U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, 20001, USA
33CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles, 8193, Spain
34CSIRO Land and Water, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
35Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, La Cañada, Almería, E-04120, Spain
36Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, Coyhaique, 5951822, Chile
37Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209, USA
38School of Agricultural, Forest, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Basilicata, Potenza, 85100, Italy
39Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
40Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA
41Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA
42Irstea, UR RECOVER, Aix en Provence, 13182, France
43Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
44Departamento de Ciencias del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora, Ciudad Obregon, Sonora, 85000, Mexico
45Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA

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