Standout Papers

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortal... 1998 2026 2007 2016 5.5k
  1. A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests (2009)
    Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady et al. Forest Ecology and Management
  2. Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought? (2008)
    Nate G. McDowell, William T. Pockman et al. New Phytologist
  3. On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene (2015)
    Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears et al. Ecosphere
  4. Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought (2005)
    David D. Breshears, Neil S. Cobb et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  5. Drought-induced shift of a forest–woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation (1998)
    Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  6. The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality (2011)
    Nate G. McDowell, David J. Beerling et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  7. Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought (2009)
    Henry D. Adams, Maite Guardiola‐Claramonte et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  8. VEGETATION PATCHES AND RUNOFF–EROSION AS INTERACTING ECOHYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES IN SEMIARID LANDSCAPES (2005)
    John A. Ludwig, Bradford P. Wilcox et al. Ecology
  9. ECOHYDROLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT (2005)
    Travis E. Huxman, Bradford P. Wilcox et al. Ecology
  10. Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests (2022)
    William M. Hammond, Park Williams et al. Nature Communications

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Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David D. Breshears 20285 9605 10708 173 27.5k
Nate G. McDowell 21919 11235 10826 204 27.4k
I. Colin Prentice 18036 10931 6862 97 32.4k
Craig D. Allen 22036 10494 12522 123 27.6k
Stephen Sitch 22741 9762 4447 250 29.5k
Todd E. Dawson 14868 8515 6085 268 24.8k
Nina Buchmann 15051 5654 9299 339 28.5k
I. Colin Prentice 12336 9349 5342 254 23.4k
Benjamin Smith 12605 5392 5098 189 19.5k
Alan K. Knapp 15096 3575 11986 297 28.0k
Michael L. Goulden 14419 5447 3599 182 19.3k

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