Feature: Improving our knowledge of drought-induced forest mortality through experiments, observations, and modeling

Nate G McDowell¹, Michael G Ryan^{2

3}, Melanie J B Zeppel⁴, David T Tissue⁵

Affiliations

¹ Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
² Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1499, USA.
³ USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia.

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Nate G McDowell et al. New Phytol. 2013 Oct.

Free article

. 2013 Oct;200(2):289-293.

doi: 10.1111/nph.12502.

Nate G McDowell¹, Michael G Ryan^{2

3}, Melanie J B Zeppel⁴, David T Tissue⁵

¹ Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
² Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1499, USA.
³ USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, 80526, USA.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Richmond, NSW, 2753, Australia.

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Keywords: carbon dioxide; die-off; simulation; temperature; vapor pressure deficit.

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