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Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming

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  • Nathan G. McDowell

    (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Craig D. Allen

    (US Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Jemez Mountains Field Station)

Abstract

A hydraulic corollary to Darcy’s law is used to predict the characteristics of plants that will survive during drought in a warmer climate. This indicates that forest trees will need to be shorter and more drought-tolerant to survive in the future.

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  • Nathan G. McDowell & Craig D. Allen, 2015. "Darcy's law predicts widespread forest mortality under climate warming," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 5(7), pages 669-672, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:5:y:2015:i:7:d:10.1038_nclimate2641
    DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2641
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    1. Foster, Adrianna C. & Shuman, Jacquelyn K. & Shugart, Herman H. & Dwire, Kathleen A. & Fornwalt, Paula J. & Sibold, Jason & Negron, Jose, 2017. "Validation and application of a forest gap model to the southern Rocky Mountains," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 351(C), pages 109-128.
    2. Zihe, Liu & Guodong, Jia & Xinxiao, Yu & Weiwei, Lu & Libo, Sun & Yusong, Wang & Baheti, Zierdie, 2021. "Morphological trait as a determining factor for Populus simonii Carr. to survive from drought in semi-arid region," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 253(C).
    3. Scheiter, Simon & Kumar, Dushyant & Pfeiffer, Mirjam & Langan, Liam, 2024. "Modeling drought mortality and resilience of savannas and forests in tropical Asia," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 494(C).
    4. Huang, Ze & Liu, Yu & Qiu, Kaiyang & López-Vicente, Manuel & Shen, Weibo & Wu, Gao-Lin, 2021. "Soil-water deficit in deep soil layers results from the planted forest in a semi-arid sandy land: Implications for sustainable agroforestry water management," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 254(C).
    5. Peipei Xu & Tao Zhou & Chuixiang Yi & Hui Luo & Xiang Zhao & Wei Fang & Shan Gao & Xia Liu, 2018. "Impacts of Water Stress on Forest Recovery and Its Interaction with Canopy Height," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(6), pages 1-16, June.
    6. 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, 2022. "Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-11, December.
    7. Tyson L Swetnam & Christopher D O’Connor & Ann M Lynch, 2016. "Tree Morphologic Plasticity Explains Deviation from Metabolic Scaling Theory in Semi-Arid Conifer Forests, Southwestern USA," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-16, July.

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