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<div><font color="#000000">UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Public Release:
22-Feb-2017</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Forests worldwide threatened by
drought</b></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Forests around the world are at risk of
death due to widespread drought, University of Stirling researchers
have found.<br>
JOURNAL</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Ecology Letters<br>
FUNDER<br>
The Leverhulme Trust</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Ecology Letters First published: 21
February 2017</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><b>Tree mortality across biomes is promoted
by drought intensity, lower wood density and higher specific leaf
area</b><br>
Sarah Greenwood et al</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">"Our results illustrate the value of
functional traits for understanding patterns of drought-induced tree
mortality and suggest that mortality could become increasingly
widespread in the future."</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Drought events are increasing globally, and
reports of consequent forest mortality are widespread. However, due to
a lack of a quantitative global synthesis, it is still not clear
whether drought-induced mortality rates differ among global biomes and
whether functional traits influence the risk of drought-induced
mortality. To address these uncertainties, we performed a global
meta-analysis of 58 studies of drought-induced forest mortality.
Mortality rates were modelled as a function of drought, temperature,
biomes, phylogenetic and functional groups and functional traits. We
identified a consistent global-scale response, where mortality
increased with drought severity [log mortality (trees trees"1
year"1) increased 0.46 (95% CI = 0.2 0.7) with one SPEI unit
drought intensity]. We found no significant differences in the
magnitude of the response depending on forest biomes or between
angiosperms and gymnosperms or evergreen and deciduous tree species.
Functional traits explained some of the variation in drought responses
between species (i.e. increased from 30 to 37% when wood density and
specific leaf area were included). Tree species with denser wood and
lower specific leaf area showed lower mortality responses. Our results
illustrate the value of functional traits for understanding patterns
of drought-induced tree mortality and suggest that mortality could
become increasingly widespread in the future.</font><br>
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