ArticleGlobal change biology2025
Long-Term Temporal Divergence in Post-Drought Resilience Decline Between Deciduous and Evergreen Tree Species.
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- Long-Term Temporal Divergence in Post-Drought Resilience Decline Between Deciduous and Evergreen Tree Species.Global change biology · 2025Article
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Severe drought increasingly threatens the resilience, productivity, and distribution of forest biomes worldwide. Understanding the evolution of tree drought resilience over the past century, along with its geographical and taxonomic relationships, is essential for predicting future forest dynamics. Using a tree-ring database from Canadian forests, encompassing 40,147 trees across 4558 plots and 23 species, we analyzed temporal and spatial patterns of drought resilience. We examined how leaf habit, prior drought exposure, and site- and tree-level factors influence growth resistance (immediate drought response), growth recovery (post-drought growth resumption), and overall resilience. Our findings indicate that most major Canadian tree species exhibit low and declining drought resilience. Mean temperature, moisture availability, and elevation emerged as critical factors in shaping tree responses to drought. At high elevation, drought impacts were buffered by cool temperatures, enabling trees to maintain stable growth rates. Deciduous species showed a significant decline in recovery and resilience throughout the 20th century, whereas evergreen species displayed stable but low resilience and recovery. Summer droughts particularly reduced resistance and recovery in deciduous species compared to evergreens. However, prior drought exposure mitigated negative drought responses over a tree's lifetime, suggesting an adaptive capacity in both evergreen and deciduous species. Older forests unaccustomed to severe droughts appear especially vulnerable, potentially leading to shifts in ecosystem composition and reduced biodiversity. The declining resilience of deciduous species, combined with the low resilience of evergreens, suggests major changes for Canadian forests, including reduced productivity and altered species composition. Our results emphasize the importance of proactive forest management strategies to preserve forest productivity and biodiversity in the context of a changing climate.
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