Low growth resilience to drought is related to future mortality risk in trees
- DeSoto, Lucía
- Cailleret, Maxime
- Sterck, Frank
- Jansen, Steven
- Kramer, Koen
- Robert, Elisabeth M. R.
- Aakala, Tuomas
- Amoroso, Mariano Martin
- Bigler, Christof
- Camarero, J. Julio
- Čufar, Katarina
- Gea Izquierdo, Guillermo
- Gillner, Sten
- Haavik, Laurel J.
- Hereş, Ana Maria
- Kane, Jeffrey M.
- Kharuk, Vyacheslav I.
- Kitzberger, Thomas
- Klein, Tamir
- Levanič, Tom
- Linares, Juan C.
- Mäkinen, Harri
- Oberhuber, Walter
- Papadopoulos, Andreas
- Rohner, Brigitte
- Sangüesa Barreda, Gabriel
- Stojanovic, Dejan B.
- Suarez, Maria Laura
- Villalba, Ricardo
- Martínez Vilalta, Jordi
DOIAbstract
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 mortali...
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