Reply to Leuzinger et al.: Drought-induced tree mortality temperature sensitivity requires pressing forward with best available science

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

Volumn 106, Issue 38, 2009, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; LETTER; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 70349507630     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909227106     Document Type: Letter

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2. Adams HD, et al. (2009) Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:7063-7066.
3. Leuzinger S, Bigler C, Wolf A, Körner C (2009) Poor methodology for predicting large-scale tree die-off. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 10.1073/pnas.0908053106.
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6. Adams HD, et al. (2009) Reply to Sala: Temperature sensitivity in drought-induced tree mortality hastens the need to further resolve a physiological model of death. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:E69.
7. Sala A (2009) Lack of direct evidence for the carbon-starvation hypothesis to explain drought-induced mortality in trees. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:E68.