Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-decadal
records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate forcing, …

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration ([CO 2 ]) is increasing, which increases leaf‐scale
photosynthesis and intrinsic water‐use efficiency. These direct responses have the …

Numerous current efforts seek to improve the representation of ecosystem ecology and
vegetation demographic processes within Earth System Models ( ESM s). These developments …

BACKGROUND Forests have considerable potential to help mitigate human-caused climate
change and provide society with a broad range of cobenefits. Local, national, and …

Remote sensing is revolutionizing the way we study forests, and recent technological
advances mean we are now able – for the first time – to identify and measure the crown …

Plants influence the atmosphere through fluxes of carbon, water and energy 1 , and can
intensify drought through land–atmosphere feedback effects 2 , 3 – 4 . The diversity of plant …

Climate change-driven increases in drought frequency and severity could compromise forest
ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink 1 , 2 – 3 . While the impacts of single droughts …

Widespread tree mortality following droughts has emerged as an environmentally and
economically devastating ‘ecological surprise'. It is well established that tree physiology is …

Carbon offsets are widely used by individuals, corporations, and governments to mitigate
their greenhouse gas emissions on the assumption that offsets reflect equivalent climate …

Forests have considerable potential to mitigate anthropogenic climate change through carbon
sequestration, as well as provide society with substantial co-benefits. However, climate …