Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 7063-7066

  Adams, Henry D ^a   Guardiola Claramonte, Maite ^a   Barron Gafford, Greg A ^a   Villegas, Juan Camilo ^a,b   Breshears, David D ^a   Zou, Chris B ^c   Troch, Peter A ^a   Huxman, Travis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosphere atmosphere feedbacks; Carbon starvation; Drought impacts; Global change ecology; Pinus edulis

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TREE; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION; WATER DEFICIT; WATER STRESS; WOOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

PINUS EDULIS; SCOLYTINAE; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

CARBON; DROUGHTS; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 66349099040     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901438106     Document Type: Article

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