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Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Severe droughts have the potential to reduce forest productivity and trigger tree mortality. Most trees face several drought events during their life and therefore resilience to dry conditions may be crucial to long-term survival. We assessed how growth resilience to severe droughts, including its components resistance and recovery, is related to the ability to survive future droughts by using a tree-ring database of surviving and now-dead trees from 118 sites (22 species, '3,500 trees). We found that, across the variety of regions and species sampled, trees that died during water shortages were less resilient to previous non-lethal droughts, relative to coexisting surviving trees of the same species. In angiosperms, drought-related mortality risk is associated with lower resistance (low capacity to reduce impact of the initial drought), while it is related to reduced recovery (low capacity to attain pre-drought growth rates) in gymnosperms. The different resilience strategies in these two taxonomic groups open new avenues to improve our understanding and prediction of drought-induced mortality. © 2020, The Author(s).
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- This article is based upon work from the COST Action FP1106 STReESS, financially supported by European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). L.DS. was funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/70632/2010) and by the European Union (EU) under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie IF (No.797188); K.K. was supported by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food-quality (KB-29-009-003); E.M.R.R. by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, Belgium) and by the EU under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie IF (No.659191); T.A. by the Kone Foundation; J.J.C. by the Spanish Ministry of Science (CGL2015-69186-C2-1-R); K.C. by the Slovenian Research Agency ARRS (P4-0015); L.J.H. by the USDA Forest Service-Forest Health Protection and Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station; V.I.K. by the RFBR (18-45-240003 and 18-05-00432); T. Klein by the Merle S. Cahn Foundation and the Monroe and Marjorie Burk Fund for Alternative Energy Studies (Mr. and Mrs. Norman Reiser), the Weizmann Center for New Scientists and the Edith & Nathan Goldberg Career Development Chair; T.L. by the Slovene Research Agency (P4-0107, J4-5519 and J4-8216); J.C.L. by the Spanish Ministry of Science (CGL2013-48843-C2-2-R); H.M. by the Academy of Finland (No.315495); G.S.-B. by a Juan de la Cierva-Formación from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO, FJCI 2016-30121); D.B.S. by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia (III 43007); R.V. partially by BNP-PARIBAS Foundation; and J.M.-V. by the MINECO (CGL2013-46808-R and CGL2017-89149-C2-1-R) and an ICREA Academia award, English
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- Electronic Resource
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- edsoai.on1202406312
- Document Type :
- Electronic Resource