Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees
Resilience to drought is crucial for tree survival under climate change. Here, DeSoto et al. show that trees that died during drought were less resilient to previous dry events compared to surviving conspecifics, but the resilience strategies differ between angiosperms and gymnosperms.
Tuomas Aakala, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda, Ricardo Villalba, Lucía DeSoto, Maxime Cailleret, Frank Sterck, Steven Jansen, Koen Kramer, Elisabeth M. R. Robert, Mariano M. Amoroso, Christof Bigler, J. Julio Camarero, Katarina Čufar, Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo, Sten Gillner, Laurel J. Haavik, Ana-Maria Hereş, Jeffrey M. Kane, Vyacheslav I. Kharuk, Thomas Kitzberger, Tamir Klein, Tom Levanič, Juan C. Linares, Harri Mäkinen, Walter Oberhuber, Andreas Papadopoulos, Brigitte Rohner, Dejan B. Stojanovic, Maria Laura Suárez