Publications by authors named "Vyacheslav I Kharuk"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how tree resilience to drought affects survival by analyzing a database of >3,500 trees from 118 sites, comparing those that survived droughts to those that died.
- - Trees that died during droughts showed lower resilience to prior droughts, indicating that resilience is key for long-term survival.
- - Angiosperms and gymnosperms exhibit differing strategies for dealing with drought: angiosperms struggle with initial drought impacts, while gymnosperms have difficulty recovering to pre-drought growth rates.
Tree mortality is a key factor influencing forest functions and dynamics, but our understanding of the mechanisms leading to mortality and the associated changes in tree growth rates are still limited. We compiled a new pan-continental tree-ring width database from sites where both dead and living trees were sampled (2970 dead and 4224 living trees from 190 sites, including 36 species), and compared early and recent growth rates between trees that died and those that survived a given mortality event. We observed a decrease in radial growth before death in ca.
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