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SUBMITTER: Senf C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713373 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Senf Cornelius C Buras Allan A Zang Christian S CS Rammig Anja A Seidl Rupert R
Nature communications 20201203 1
Pulses of tree mortality caused by drought have been reported recently in forests around the globe, but large-scale quantitative evidence is lacking for Europe. Analyzing high-resolution annual satellite-based canopy mortality maps from 1987 to 2016 we here show that excess forest mortality (i.e., canopy mortality exceeding the long-term mortality trend) is significantly related to drought across continental Europe. The relationship between water availability and mortality showed threshold behav ...[more]