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

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

Volumn 113, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 5024-5029

  Anderegg, William R L ^a,b   Klein, Tamir ^c   Bartlett, Megan ^d   Sack, Lawren ^d   Pellegrini, Adam F A ^b   Choat, Brendan ^e   Jansen, Steven ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon cycle; Climate change; Climate extremes; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; DROUGHT INDUCED TREE MORTALITY; EVERGREEN; GYMNOSPERM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MORTALITY RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOTING; WATER TRANSPORT; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREE;

DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREES;

EID: 84965118183     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525678113     Document Type: Article

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