Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7426, 2012, Pages 752-755

  Choat, Brendan ^a   Jansen, Steven ^b   Brodribb, Tim J ^c   Cochard, Hervé ^d,e   Delzon, Sylvain ^f   Bhaskar, Radika ^g   Bucci, Sandra J ^h   Feild, Taylor S ⁱ   Gleason, Sean M ^j   Hacke, Uwe G ^k   Jacobsen, Anna L ^l   Lens, Frederic ^m   Maherali, Hafiz ⁿ   Martínez Vilalta, Jordi ^o,p   Mayr, Stefan ^q   Mencuccini, Maurizio ^p,r   Mitchell, Patrick J ^s   Nardini, Andrea ^t   Pittermann, Jarmila ^u   Pratt, R Brandon ^l   Sperry, John S ^v   Westoby, Mark ^j   Wright, Ian J ^j   Zanne, Amy E ^w,x   more..

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d PIAF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^g BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

ⁱ JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^l CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^o CREAF   (Spain)

^p UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^q UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^r UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^s CSIRO   (Australia)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^u UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^w MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   (United States)

^x GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT STRESS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GAS EXCHANGE; MORTALITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOREST; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; GEOGRAPHY; GYMNOSPERMS; INTERNATIONALITY; PRESSURE; RAIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE; TREES; XYLEM;

EID: 84870302459     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11688     Document Type: Article

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