David D. Breshears

Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought

Future drought is projected to occur under warmer temperature conditions as climate change progresses, referred to here as global-change-type drought, yet quantitative assessmen...

Comparing response of Pinus edulis tree-ring growth to five alternate moisture indices using historic meteorological data

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

Drought-induced shift of a forest–woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation

In coming decades, global climate changes are expected to produce large shifts in vegetation distributions at unprecedented rates. These shifts are expected to be most rapid and...

Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

Large-scale biogeographical shifts in vegetation are predicted in response to the altered precipitation and temperature regimes associated with global climate change. Vegetation...

Tree die‐off in response to global change‐type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements

Global climate change is projected to produce warmer, longer, and more frequent droughts, referred to here as “global change‐type droughts”, which have the potential to trigger ...

The importance of rapid, disturbance‐induced losses in carbon management and sequestration

Abstract Management of terrestrial carbon fluxes is being proposed as a means of increasing the amount of carbon sequestered in the terrestrial biosphere. This approach is gener...