Towards an advanced assessment of the hydrological vulnerability of forests to climate change-induced drought

Tamir Klein; Dan Yakir; Nina Buchmann; José M Grünzweig

doi:10.1111/nph.12548

Towards an advanced assessment of the hydrological vulnerability of forests to climate change-induced drought

New Phytol. 2014 Feb;201(3):712-716. doi: 10.1111/nph.12548. Epub 2013 Oct 14.

Authors

Tamir Klein^{1

2}, Dan Yakir¹, Nina Buchmann³, José M Grünzweig⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
² Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
⁴ Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.

PMID: 24117758
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12548

No abstract available

Keywords: drought avoidance; hydraulic safety margin; soil drought; tree canopy effects; vapor pressure deficit; vegetation structure; xylem refilling.

Publication types

Letter
Review

MeSH terms

Atmosphere
Climate Change*
Droughts*
Soil
Trees / physiology*
Water*

Substances

Soil
Water