Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe
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Significance: Predicting the impacts of climate extremes on plant communities is a central challenge in ecology. Physiological traits may improve prediction of drought impacts on forests globally. We perform a meta-analysis across 33 studies that span all forested biomes and find that, among the examined traits, hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns in mortality from drought. Gymnosperm and angiosperm mortality was associated with different hydraulic traits, giving insight into the relative weights of different traits and mechanisms in mortality prediction. Our results provide a foundation for more mechanistic predictions of drought-induced tree mortality across Earth’s diverse forests.
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- Authors
- Anderegg, W. R. L., Klein, T., Bartlett, M., Sack, L., Pellegrini, A. F. A., Choat, B., & Jansen, S.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Agricultural Research Organization (IL)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Western Sydney University (AU)
- Universität Ulm (DE)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2016-04-18
- Volume
- 113
- Issue
- 18
- Pages
- 5024-5029
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4983847
- OpenAlex
- W2337215722
- Cited by
- 882
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 7.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- NOAA Institutional Repository (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- NSF | BIO | Division of Environmental Biology (DEB EF-1340270, DEB-1249256)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (31003A_14753/1)
- Australian Research Council (FT130101115)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Fire effects on ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tree-ring climate responses
- Keywords
- drought-induced tree mortality, plant hydraulic traits, hydraulic safety margin, xylem water potential, flowering plants, gymnosperms, climate extremes, forest carbon sequestration, vegetation modeling
- MeSH terms
- Species Specificity, Stress, Physiological, Trees, Ecosystem, Plant Transpiration, Droughts
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