ArticleNature communications2025
Droughts preceding tree mortality events have increased in duration and intensity, especially in dry biomes.
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- Shared buddies: ectomycorrhizal fungal communities in pinus and quercus and their potential relevance for mixed-forest restoration.Mycorrhiza · 2026Pooled it
- Functional memory of drought affects leaf chemical defenses and microbial interactions in aspen.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Host hydraulics constrain mistletoe resistance to drought-induced embolism.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Divergent Temporal Trends in Carbon Assimilation-Growth Coupling Across Global Forests.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Aridity and drought: distinct concepts often conflated in ecological research.The New phytologist · 2026Review
- Integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of provenances and organ-specific responses to drought and rehydration inFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Divergent climatic response patterns of radial growth in healthy and declining poplar forests in the Engebei Ecological Demonstration Zone of Ordos, China.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Positive Drought Feedbacks Increase Tree Mortality Risk in Dry Woodlands of the US Southwest.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
The thresholds of drought duration and intensity required to provoke pulses of tree mortality across Earth's biomes remain unclear. Using globally-extensive updated databases of drought-associated tree mortality, we report substantial diversity in the types of drought events that cause tree death in different forest types. Tree-killing droughts are longer, more intense and have higher completeness (proportion of extreme drought within long-lasting droughts) in dry versus wet biomes. Mortality-inducing droughts are more intense and show higher completeness in angiosperm-dominated forests. We find a marked tendency towards long-lasting and more severe and complete droughts in recent years, particularly in more arid sites. Warming-amplified aridity is a main factor underpinning these variations. Differences in "sampling effort" across regions make it challenging to characterize the high variability in drought-induced tree mortality events. In this work we demonstrate the need to create, continuously update, and refine more extensive field-based tree mortality monitoring programs globally.
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