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Juvenile Tree Mortality from Extreme Heat and Drought

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Photo depicting drought-related tree mortality in Sequoia National Park

Drought-related tree mortality in Sequoia National Park
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Drought before fire increases tree mortality after fire

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Tree mortality in blue oak woodlands in Sequoia National Park during the extreme drought

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The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire

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Mortality factors for dead trees from a subset of plots from the Sierra Nevada Forest Dynamics Plot Network from 1998 to 2010

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Dead ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa), Yosemite Nat'l Park.

Tree Mortality Patterns and Processes

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Tree mortality in Sequoia National Park from 2004 to 2007 and during severe drought in 2014 to 2017

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Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening

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Fire Caused Tree Mortality in Western US National Parks (2018)(ver. 2.0, February 2020)

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Investigating drivers of tree mortality in western forests

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Why do trees die? Characterizing the drivers of background tree mortality

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Why is tree drought mortality so hard to predict?

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Fire and tree death: Understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality

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Drivers and mechanisms of tree mortality in moist tropical forests

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A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

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Mortality thresholds of juvenile trees to drought and heatwaves: Implications for forest regeneration across a landscape gradient

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The contribution of competition to tree mortality in old-growth coniferous forests

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Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage

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Climate change risks to global forest health: Emergence of unexpected events of elevated tree mortality worldwide

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Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events

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Does coring contribute to tree mortality?

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Tree mortality response to drought-density interactions suggests opportunities to enhance drought resistance

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Climatic correlates of tree mortality in water- and energy-limited forests

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Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

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A window of opportunity for climate-change adaptation: Easing tree mortality by reducing forest basal area

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Early-warning signals of individual tree mortality based on annual radial growth

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To what extent is drought-induced tree mortality a natural phenomenon?

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A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

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Patterns and drivers of cottonwood mortality in the middle Rio Grande, New Mexico, USA

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