Droughts
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Subject Areas on Research
- A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem to drought.
- A synthesis of the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide enrichment on plant hydraulics: implications for whole-plant water use efficiency and resistance to drought.
- A test of the hydraulic vulnerability segmentation hypothesis in angiosperm and conifer tree species.
- Acclimation of leaf hydraulic conductance and stomatal conductance of Pinus taeda (loblolly pine) to long-term growth in elevated CO(2) (free-air CO(2) enrichment) and N-fertilization.
- Accounting for landscape heterogeneity improves spatial predictions of tree vulnerability to drought.
- Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests.
- Biophysical modelling of intra-ring variations in tracheid features and wood density of Pinus pinaster trees exposed to seasonal droughts.
- Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia.
- Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests.
- Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought.
- Cumulative early life adversity predicts longevity in wild baboons.
- Developmental constraints in a wild primate.
- Differentiating the Effects of Climate Change-Induced Temperature and Streamflow Changes on the Vulnerability of Once-Through Thermoelectric Power Plants.
- Does homeostasis or disturbance of homeostasis in minimum leaf water potential explain the isohydric versus anisohydric behavior of Vitis vinifera L. cultivars?
- Drained coastal peatlands: A potential nitrogen source to marine ecosystems under prolonged drought and heavy storm events-A microcosm experiment.
- Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest.
- Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export.
- Effects of potassium and sodium supply on drought-adaptive mechanisms in Eucalyptus grandis plantations.
- Elevated CO₂ enhances leaf senescence during extreme drought in a temperate forest.
- Elevated growth temperatures alter hydraulic characteristics in trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) seedlings: implications for tree drought tolerance.
- Environmental aridity is associated with cytotype segregation and polyploidy occurrence in Brachypodium distachyon (Poaceae).
- Evaluating theories of drought-induced vegetation mortality using a multimodel-experiment framework.
- Forest drought as an emerging research priority.
- Genetics of drought adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana II. QTL analysis of a new mapping population, KAS-1 x TSU-1.
- Genome diversity in Brachypodium distachyon: deep sequencing of highly diverse inbred lines.
- Growth and physiological responses of isohydric and anisohydric poplars to drought.
- Heterogeneity of competition at decameter scale: patches of high canopy leaf area in a shade-intolerant larch stand transpire less yet are more sensitive to drought.
- How eco-evolutionary principles can guide tree breeding and tree biotechnology for enhanced productivity.
- Hydraulic architecture of two species differing in wood density: opposing strategies in co-occurring tropical pioneer trees.
- Incidence and biomarkers of pregnancy, spontaneous abortion, and neonatal loss during an environmental stressor: Implications for female reproductive suppression in the cooperatively breeding meerkat.
- Increasing atmospheric humidity and CO2 concentration alleviate forest mortality risk.
- Linking carbon and water relations to drought-induced mortality in Pinus flexilis seedlings.
- Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas.
- Multiyear drought-induced morbidity preceding tree death in southeastern U.S. forests.
- Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts.
- Natural variation, differentiation, and genetic trade-offs of ecophysiological traits in response to water limitation in Brachypodium distachyon and its descendent allotetraploid B. hybridum (Poaceae).
- OSCA1 mediates osmotic-stress-evoked Ca2+ increases vital for osmosensing in Arabidopsis.
- Parasites enhance resistance to drought in a coastal ecosystem.
- Patch size-dependent community recovery after massive disturbance.
- Physiological responses of Norway spruce (Picea abies) seedlings to drought stress.
- Predicting population survival under future climate change: density dependence, drought and extraction in an insular bighorn sheep.
- Quantifying shorebird habitat in managed wetlands by modeling shallow water depth dynamics.
- Regulation of plant root system architecture: implications for crop advancement.
- Seasonal variation in energy expenditure in a rodent inhabiting a winter-rainfall desert.
- Spatiotemporal variation of crown-scale stomatal conductance in an arid Vitis vinifera L. cv. Merlot vineyard: direct effects of hydraulic properties and indirect effects of canopy leaf area.
- Strategies of a Bornean tropical rainforest water use as a function of rainfall regime: isohydric or anisohydric?
- The effects of drinking water service fragmentation on drought-related water security.
- The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States.
- Tree water balance drives temperate forest responses to drought.
- X-Ray Computed Tomography Reveals the Response of Root System Architecture to Soil Texture.
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Keywords of People
- Kumar, Mukesh, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Environmental Sciences and Policy
- Mitchell-Olds, Thomas, Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor of Biology, Biology