B116
Tree drought stress and mortality: the interplay of climate, physiology, hydrology, and lithology

Session ID#: 82975

Session Description:
Drought can have profound impacts on ecosystems and, consequently, their ability to take up carbon. Plants employ a range of strategies, including both above- and below- ground processes, to mediate water stress in order to survive drought. However, mortality is not solely determined by the severity of drought and the efficacy of plants’ physiological strategies to tolerate water stress, but also by the availability of deep soil moisture, which in turn is related to groundwater and bedrock characteristics. How these factors interact to affect the mechanism of drought-induced tree mortality and how tree loss in turn affects climate, carbon uptake, lithology, and hydrology is not yet explained. This session seeks to highlight advances in understanding of this topic. We invite presentations on research at global, regional, and local scales using experiments, field measurements, remote sensing observations (e.g. vegetation greenness, SIF, and water content), or models.
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1851 Plant ecology [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Henry D Adams, Oklahoma State University, Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Stillwater, OK, United States, Alexander J. Turner, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Leander DL Anderegg, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Self-thinning decreases the effect of subsequent drought on forest dieback (487809)
Carl Norlen, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Michael Goulden, Univesity of California, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Conifer Decline and Mortality in Siberian Taiga (488434)
Viacheslav Kharuk1, Sergei Im2 and Il’ya Petrov2, (1)V.N.Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (2)Sukachev Institute of Forests, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
 
Adaptive Plasticity in Plant Traits Delays Modelled and Observed Time to Critical Hydraulic Failure Under Drought in a Tree (491377)
Anthea Challis1, Paul Rymer2, Collin W Ahrens3, Chris Blackman2, Belinda Medlyn4 and David Tissue1, (1)University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia, (2)University of Western Sydney, Penrith, Australia, (3)University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Richmond, NSW, Australia, (4)Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Sydney, Australia
 
Grow deep roots now or wait? A coupled carbon-hydraulic framework for understanding how trees acquire groundwater subsidy to during drought (Invited) (496780)
David Scott Mackay, University at Buffalo, Department of Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, Diane R. Wang, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, United States, Charlotte Grossiord, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Nate McDowell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and John Sperry, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Constant, relentless, and disruptive: How sudden oak death and other invasive pathogens contrast with climate-driven tree mortality events (497444)
Richard Cobb, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, United States
 
Forest Restoration Potential Could Be Offset by Drought-induced Tree Mortalities (499116)
Chongyang Xu, Peking University, Beijing, China and Hongyan Liu, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences and MOE Laboratory for Earth Surface, Peking University, Beijing, China
 
Investigating drought-induced tree mortality using remotely sensed ET data in a temperate forest in the Central US (499655)
Yun Yang, USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Feng Gao, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, MD, United States, Christopher Hain, National Integrated Drought Information System, Boulder, CO, United States, Jeffrey D Wood, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States and Lianhong Gu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Vegetation optical depth serves as an ecosystem-scale indicator of drought-driven tree mortality rates (Invited) (513293)
Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Krishna Rao, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, William Anderegg, University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Anna Sala, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States and Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
 
Predicting drought responses of tropical woody plants through coordination among drought survival traits (518726)
Louis S Santiago1, Aleyda Acosta-Rangel2, Eleinis Avila-Lovera3, Erika Bucior1, Mark E de Guzman4, Frederick C Meinzer5, Alexandria Lynn Pivovaroff6 and Klaus Winter7, (1)University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, (2)University of Florida, Gulf Coast Research & Education Center, Wimauma, FL, United States, (3)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (4)Oregon Department of Agriculture, Salem, OR, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (7)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama
 
The role of sub-surface storage capacities in drought morality patterns along a hillslope in the Sierra Nevada, California (524935)
Christopher Heckman, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Christina (Naomi) Tague, UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
The role of trait plasticity in tree drought mortality (526307)
Stefan K Arndt, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Carola Pritzkow, The University of Melbourne, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Richmond, VIC, Australia, Virginia Williamson, The University of Melbourne, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Richmond, VIC, VIC, Australia and Christopher Szota, The University of Melbourne, School of Forest and Ecosystem Science, Richmond, VIC, Australia
 
Stronger influence of growth rate than severity of drought stress on mortality of large ponderosa pines during the 2012-2015 California drought event (537813)
Rachel Keen, Kansas State University, Biology, Manhattan, KS, United States, Steven Voelker, Utah State University, Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Logan, UT, United States, Barbara J Bentz, US Forest Service Logan, Logan, UT, United States and Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
 
Assessment of Forest Resistance and Resilience to the Millennium Drought in Australia (541974)
Tong Jiao, Clark University, Geography, Worcester, MA, United States and Christopher A Williams, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States
 
How will Soil and Vegetation Properties Influence Water Availability under a Changing Climate? A Case Study in a Temperate Forest, Canada (542435)
Cybèle Cholet1, Daniel Houle2,3, Louis Duchesne2, Jean-Daniel Sylvain4, Frédérik Doyon1 and Audrey Maheu5, (1)University of Quebec in Outaouais, ISFORT, Ripon, QC, Canada, (2)Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources MRN, Forest Research, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (3)Ouranos, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction de la recherche forestière, Quebec, QC, Canada, (5)University du Québec en Outaouais, Département des sciences naturelles, Ripon, QC, Canada
 
Observations of plasticity of stomatal closure point in two arid-zone coniferous species. (553547)
Emma Lathrop1, Adam Collins1, L. Turin Dickman2, Danielle E. Marias Ulrich1, Max Ryan3 and Sanna Sevanto1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, NM, United States
 
Not dead yet: costs and consequences for conifers surviving extreme hydraulic failure. (571330)
William Hammond1, Luke A Wilson2, Rodney Will3 and Henry D Adams1, (1)Oklahoma State University, Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University, Natural Resources Ecology & Management, Stillwater, OK, United States, (3)Oklahoma State University, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Stillwater, OK, United States
 
Rates, Causes, and Characteristics of Tree Mortality in the United States (579184)
Xianguo Hao and Shuguang Liu, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, National Engineering Laboratory of Applied Technology of Forestry & Ecology for Southern China, Changsha, China
 
The effect of temperature and ontogeny on the physiological mechanism of drought-induced tree mortality in pines (587788)
Henry Adams1, William Hammond2, L. Turin Dickman3, Greg Barron-Gafford4, Darin Law5, William Anderegg6, Leander DL Anderegg7, Sanna Sevanto8, William Pockman9, Nate McDowell10, David D Breshears5 and Travis E Huxman11, (1)Stillwater, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University, Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, Stillwater, OK, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)University of Arizona, School of Geography and Development, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)University of Utah, School of Biological Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (9)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (10)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (11)University of California at Irvine, Center for Environmental Biology, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Ploidy Level - Environment Interactions Predict Mortality and Recruitment in Quaking Aspen (589119)
Ben Blonder, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Courtenay Ray, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, Philip Brodrick, Arizona State University, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Tempe, AZ, United States and K. Dana Chadwick, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
 
Tree mortality during the 2012-2016 California drought: role of climate and lithology (598123)
Xiaojuan Liu, University of California Berkeley, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Inez Y Fung, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Eren Bilir, University of California, Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
Whole Ecosystem Warming Induces Physiological Stress and Tree Mortality in a Boreal Bog Ecosystem (601091)
Jennifer Peters1, Jeff Warren2 and Paul J Hanson2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
Mediterranean ecosystems under threat: impact of recurrent extreme drought events and shrub invasion on savannah-type cork oak forests in Portugal (604065)
Simon Haberstroh1,2, R Lobo-do-Vale2, Christiane Werner1, Maren Dubbert3, Joaquim G Pinto4, Matthias Cuntz5, Miguel N Bugalho6 and Maria C Caldeira2, (1)University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, (2)University of Lisbon, Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Lisbon, Portugal, (3)University of Freiburg, Ecosystem Physiology, Freiburg, Germany, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe, Germany, (5)INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Nancy, France, (6)University of Lisbon, CEABN, Lisbon, Portugal
 
Remote sensing of plant-groundwater relations in riparian forests during the 2011-2017 California drought (617546)
Christopher Linscott Kibler1, Dar A Roberts1, Michael Bliss Singer2 and John C Stella3, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Cardiff University, Water Research Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (3)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States
 
Tree mortality detection and assessment using AVIRIS imaging spectroscopy data in Sierra Nevada (623156)
Yufang Jin1, Margarita Huesca Martinez2, Michael J Koontz3, Yuhan Huang2, Andrew Latimer4, Susan Ustin5 and Simon J Hook6, (1)University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab, Boulder, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Plant Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (5)Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (6)LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Remote Detection of Drought Stress and Mortality in a Blue Oak Woodland Using Leaf, Canopy and Airborne Sensing Systems (623761)
Susan Ustin, Margarita Huesca Martinez and Alexander Koltunov, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Mountain ecosystem response to drought moderated by lithologic and climatic controls on subsurface water-storage capacity (624487)
Clifford S Riebe and Russell Patrick Callahan, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Tree rings reveal drought avoidance through groundwater usage and historic groundwater variations in sandy temperate forests (626818)
Dominick Michael Ciruzzi, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Steven P Loheide III, University of Wisconsin Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, WI, United States
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