Unlocking Drought-Induced Tree Mortality: Physiological Mechanisms to Modeling.

ABSTRACT: Drought-related tree mortality has become a major concern worldwide due to its pronounced negative impacts on the functioning and sustainability of forest ecosystems. However, our ability to identify the species that are most vulnerable to drought, and to pinpoint the spatial and temporal patterns of mortality events, is still limited. Model is useful tools to capture the dynamics of vegetation at spatiotemporal scales, yet contemporary land surface models (LSMs) are often incapable of predicting the response of vegetation to environmental perturbations with sufficient accuracy, especially under stressful conditions such as drought. Significant progress has been made regarding the physiological mechanisms underpinning plant drought response in the past decade, and plant hydraulic dysfuncti

SUBMITTER: Li X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9015645 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature