Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests

  • William M. Hammond,
  • A. Park Williams,
  • John T. Abatzoglou,
  • Henry D. Adams,
  • Tamir Klein,
  • Rosana López,
  • Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero,
  • Henrik Hartmann,
  • David D. Breshears,
  • Craig D. Allen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29289-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Tree mortality is increasing due to droughts and other climate change-related stressors, but isolating climate signals for tree mortality is challenging. Here, the authors assemble a geo-referenced global database that quantifies how drought and hotter climate drive tree mortality events.