A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

2010

Authors

• Craig D. Allen
  • U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center
• Alison K. Macalady
  • The University of Arizona School of Geography and Development
  • The University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
• Haroun Chenchouni
  • University of Batna Department of Biology
• Dominique Bachelet
  • Oregon State University Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering
• Nathan G. McDowell
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Earth and Environmental Sciences Division
• Michel Vennetier
  • Institute for Environmental Science and Technology Research CEMAGREF
  • Continental Ecosystems and Environmental Risks ECCOREV FR 3098
• Thomas Kitzberger
  • National University of Comahue Ecotono Laboratory
  • National University of Comahue Institute of Biodiversity and Environment Research INIBIOMA
• Andreas Rigling
  • Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research-WSL
• David Breshears
  • The University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment
  • The University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Ted Hogg
  • Canadian Forest Service Northern Forestry Centre
• Patrick Gonzalez
  • University of California, Berkeley Center for Forestry
• Rod Fensham
  • Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Queensland Herbarium
• Zhen Zhang
  • Chinese Academy of Forestry Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection
• Jorge Castro
  • University of Granada Department of Ecology Terrestrial Ecology Group RNM 220
• Natalia Demidova
  • Northern Research Institute of Forestry
• Jong-Hwan Lim
  • Korea Forest Research Institute Department of Forest Conservation Division of Forest Ecology
• Gillian Allard
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Department of Forestry
• Steven Running
  • University of Montana Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group
• Akkin Semerci
  • Central Anatolia Forestry Research Institute
• Neil S. Cobb
  • Northern Arizona University Department of Biological Sciences
  • Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research

Point of Contact

• Craig D. Allen
  • U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center

Forest Ecology and Management volume 259 pages 660-684

DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.001

Provenance

• 1 figure was derived from this article : figure nca3 7.3

This work is referenced by:

• Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States: The Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II (reference)
• chapter 19 (reference)
• chapter 5 (reference)
• finding 19.3 (reference)
• finding 5.2 (reference)
• Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (reference)
• chapter 18 (reference)
• chapter 20 (reference)
• chapter 7 (reference)
• finding 7.1 (reference)
• figure 7.3 (reference)
• Indicator: Forest Cover (reference)

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