Post-drought Resilience After Forest Die-Off: Shifts in Regeneration, Composition, Growth and Productivity.

ABSTRACT: A better understanding on the consequences of drought on forests can be reached by paying special attention to their resilience capacity, i.e., the ability to return to a state similar to pre-drought conditions. Nevertheless, extreme droughts may surpass the threshold for the resilience capacity triggering die-off causing multiple changes at varying spatial and temporal scales and affecting diverse processes (tree growth and regeneration, ecosystem productivity). Combining several methodological tools allows reaching a comprehensive characterization of post-drought forest resilience. We evaluated the changes in the abundance, regeneration capacity (seedling abundance), and radial growth (annual tree rings) of the main tree species. We also assessed if drought-induced reductions in growth a

SUBMITTER: Gazol A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6210004 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature