Droughts

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A drought-driven model for the evolution of obligate apomixis in ferns: evidence from pellaeids (Pteridaceae). 
  • A keystone mutualism underpins resilience of a coastal ecosystem 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. 
  • Aquaporins, and not changes in root structure, provide new insights into physiological responses to drought, flooding, and salinity. 
  • Asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity to rainfall anomalies vary inversely with mean annual rainfall over the conterminous United States. 
  • Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests. 
  • 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. 
  • Comparison of water-energy trajectories of two major regions experiencing water shortage. 
  • Cumulative early life adversity predicts longevity in wild baboons 
  • Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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). 
  • 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. 
  • How tree species, tree size, and topographical location influenced tree transpiration in northern boreal forests during the historic 2018 drought. 
  • 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. 
  • Life-cycle energy impacts for adapting an urban water supply system to droughts. 
  • Maximizing leaf carbon gain in varying saline conditions: An optimization model with dynamic mesophyll conductance. 
  • 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. 
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions Facing Environmental Challenge. 
  • 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. 
  • Resistance of African tropical forests to an extreme climate anomaly. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • The role of water in plant-microbe interactions. 
  • 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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  • Mitchell-Olds, Thomas, Newman Ivey White Distinguished Professor of Biology, Biology