What is it about?
We study how forests respond to drought across biomes in Spain. In particular, we focus in the resilience capacity of forests to drought, i.e. in their ability to recover average growth and productivity values after drought. We found that forests vary in their resilience capacity across biomes. The main reason for this variation is that drought intensity varies as well. Thus, some forests experience more intense droughts tan others.
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Why is it important?
Understanding how forests resist drought and recover after drought is fundamental to understand how forests will respond to projected climate conditions.
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In my opinion, this study is fundamental to undestrand how forests react to drought in Spain.
Antonio Gazol
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE-CSIC
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This page is a summary of: Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes, Global Change Biology, February 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14082.
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