Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

Brendan Choat, Steven Jansen (), Tim J. Brodribb, Hervé Cochard, Sylvain Delzon, Radika Bhaskar, Sandra J. Bucci, Taylor S. Feild, Sean M. Gleason, Uwe G. Hacke, Anna L. Jacobsen, Frederic Lens, Hafiz Maherali, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, Stefan Mayr, Maurizio Mencuccini, Patrick J. Mitchell, Andrea Nardini, Jarmila Pittermann, R. Brandon Pratt, John S. Sperry, Mark Westoby, Ian J. Wright and Amy E. Zanne
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Brendan Choat: University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, New South Wales 2753, Australia
Steven Jansen: Ulm University, Institute for Systematic Botany and Ecology, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany
Tim J. Brodribb: University of Tasmania, School of Plant Science, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
Hervé Cochard: INRA, UMR547 PIAF, F-63100 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Sylvain Delzon: INRA, University of Bordeaux, UMR BIOGECO, 33450 Talence, France
Radika Bhaskar: Brown University, Environmental Change Initiative, Box 1951, 167 Thayer Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Sandra J. Bucci: Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, 9000 Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina
Taylor S. Feild: James Cook University, School of Marine and Tropical Biology
Sean M. Gleason: Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Uwe G. Hacke: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada
Anna L. Jacobsen: California State University
Frederic Lens: Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, Leiden University, PO Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Hafiz Maherali: University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta: CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
Stefan Mayr: University Innsbruck, Institut für Botank, Sternwartestrasse 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Maurizio Mencuccini: ICREA at CREAF, Univ Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193, Spain
Patrick J. Mitchell: CSIRO, Ecosystem Sciences, College Road, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7005, Australia
Andrea Nardini: Università di Trieste, Via L. Giorgieri 10, 34127 Trieste, Italy
Jarmila Pittermann: University of California, Santa Cruz
R. Brandon Pratt: California State University
John S. Sperry: University of Utah, 257 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
Mark Westoby: Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Ian J. Wright: Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Amy E. Zanne: Missouri Botanical Garden, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development

Nature, 2012, vol. 491, issue 7426, 752-755

Abstract: Analysis of data from forest plants worldwide shows that margins between threshold xylem pressures at which plants suffer damage and the lowest xylem pressures experienced are small, with no difference between dry and wet forests, providing insight into why drought-induced forest decline is occurring in both arid and wet forests.

Date: 2012
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