Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
28 Jan 2020
28 Jan 2020
Historique:
received:
21
11
2018
accepted:
05
12
2019
entrez:
30
1
2020
pubmed:
30
1
2020
medline:
19
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2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Severe droughts have the potential to reduce forest productivity and trigger tree mortality. Most trees face several drought events during their life and therefore resilience to dry conditions may be crucial to long-term survival. We assessed how growth resilience to severe droughts, including its components resistance and recovery, is related to the ability to survive future droughts by using a tree-ring database of surviving and now-dead trees from 118 sites (22 species, >3,500 trees). We found that, across the variety of regions and species sampled, trees that died during water shortages were less resilient to previous non-lethal droughts, relative to coexisting surviving trees of the same species. In angiosperms, drought-related mortality risk is associated with lower resistance (low capacity to reduce impact of the initial drought), while it is related to reduced recovery (low capacity to attain pre-drought growth rates) in gymnosperms. The different resilience strategies in these two taxonomic groups open new avenues to improve our understanding and prediction of drought-induced mortality.
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pubmed: 31992718
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14300-5
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-14300-5
pmc: PMC6987235
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Langues
eng
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