<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.35; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><time class="widget-item__date" datetime="2019-10-18T07:12:33-04:00" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"> Eos 18 October</time><time class="widget-item__date" datetime="2019-10-18T07:12:33-04:00" style="margin: 0px; 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line-height: 1.2; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a class="widget-item__link" href="https://eos.org/articles/the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fall" title="The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.5s linear 0s; font-size: 14px; background-position: 0px 0px;">The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall</a></h3><section class="widget-item__content" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">New research tracking 1.8 million trees found that tall trees died at more than twice the rate of smaller ones toward the end of extreme and persistent drought</section><section class="widget-item__content" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://eos.org/articles/the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fall" class="">https://eos.org/articles/the-bigger-they-are-the-harder-they-fall</a></section><section class="widget-item__content" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b class="">Open access</b> Nature Communications article pdf here: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12380-6" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12380-6</a></section><section class="widget-item__content" style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.875; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</section><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>“Plants that are tall with isohydric stomatal regulation, low hydraulic conductance, and high leaf area are most likely to die from future drought stress. Thus, tall trees of old-growth forests are at the <br class="">greatest risk of loss, which has ominous implications for terrestrial carbon storage.”<br class=""><br class="">McDowell and Allen. Darcy’s law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming. <br class="">Nature Climate Change. <b class="">2015</b></div><div><b class=""><br class=""></b></div></div></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">”Precipitation is just the supply side,"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> said study coauthor Jason Smerdon, a Lamont-Doherty paleoclimatologist. "</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Temperature is on the demand side, the part that dries things out." </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"If we don't see it coming in stronger in, say, the next 10 years, we might have to wonder whether we are right," said Marvel. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">"But all the models are projecting that you should see unprecedented drying soon, in a lot of places."</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Precipitation over much of central America, Mexico the central and western United States and Europe is projected to stay about the same, or even increase. But, according to both the new study and a separate 2018 paper, rising temperatures and resulting evaporation of moisture from soils in those regions will probably predominate. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Times; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/eiac-ssf042919.php</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>