Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health : Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide

Recent observations of elevated tree mortality following climate extremes, like heat and drought, raise concerns about climate change risks to global forest health. We currently lack both sufficient data and understanding to identify whether these observations represent a global trend toward increasing tree mortality. Here, we document events of sudden and unexpected elevated tree mortality following heat and drought events in ecosystems that previously were considered tolerant or not at risk of exposure. These events underscore the fact that climate change may affect forests with unexpected force in the future. We use the events as examples to highlight current difficulties and challenges for realistically predicting such tree mortality events and the uncertainties about future forest condition. Advances in remote sensing technology and greater availably of high-resolution data, from both field assessments and satellites, are needed to improve both understanding and prediction of forest responses to future climate change.

Bastos, AnaMax Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (författare)
Das, Adrian JWestern Ecological Research Center (författare)
Esquivel-Muelbert, AdrianeUniversity of Birmingham,Birmingham Institute of Forest Research(Swepub:lu)ad5737es (författare)
Hammond, William MUniversity of Florida (författare)
Martínez-Vilalta, JordiCentre for Ecological Research and Forestry (CERAF),Autonomous University of Barcelona (författare)
McDowell, Nate GPacific Northwest National Laboratory,Washington State University (författare)
Powers, Jennifer SUniversity of Minnesota (författare)
Pugh, Thomas A MLund University,Lunds universitet,BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate,Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC),Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system,Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap,Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC),Faculty of Science,Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science,Birmingham Institute of Forest Research,University of Birmingham(Swepub:lu)th5432pu (författare)
Ruthrof, Katinka XFudan University (författare)
Allen, Craig DUniversity of New Mexico (författare)
Max Planck Institute for BiogeochemistryWestern Ecological Research Center (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Annual Review of Plant Biology: Annual Reviews73, s. 673-7021543-50081545-2123

Av författaren/redakt...: Hartmann, Henrik; Bastos, Ana; Das, Adrian J; Esquivel-Muelber ...; Hammond, William ...; Martínez-Vilalta ...; visa fler...; McDowell, Nate G; Powers, Jennifer ...; Pugh, Thomas A M; Ruthrof, Katinka ...; Allen, Craig D; visa färre...

Om ämnet

NATURVETENSKAP: NATURVETENSKAP; och Geovetenskap och ...; och Klimatforskning

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.