Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe
Droughts pose an increasingly important threat to forests. Here the authors analyse a high-resolution Landsat-based dataset of forest canopy mortality in Europe over 1987–2016 to show that drought is already a major driver of tree mortality.
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| author | Cornelius Senf Allan Buras Christian S. Zang Anja Rammig Rupert Seidl |
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| description | Droughts pose an increasingly important threat to forests. Here the authors analyse a high-resolution Landsat-based dataset of forest canopy mortality in Europe over 1987–2016 to show that drought is already a major driver of tree mortality. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-436f7186da0d4f3ea70d4eae4ee27ec02022-12-21T18:01:40ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232020-12-011111810.1038/s41467-020-19924-1Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across EuropeCornelius Senf0Allan Buras1Christian S. Zang2Anja Rammig3Rupert Seidl4Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, Technical University of MunichLand Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Technical University of MunichLand Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Technical University of MunichLand Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Technical University of MunichEcosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, Technical University of MunichDroughts pose an increasingly important threat to forests. Here the authors analyse a high-resolution Landsat-based dataset of forest canopy mortality in Europe over 1987–2016 to show that drought is already a major driver of tree mortality.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19924-1 |
| spellingShingle | Cornelius Senf Allan Buras Christian S. Zang Anja Rammig Rupert Seidl Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe Nature Communications |
| title | Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe |
| title_full | Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe |
| title_fullStr | Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe |
| title_short | Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe |
| title_sort | excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across europe |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19924-1 |
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