Jasper Bloemen

TL;DR: A global tree mortality map is updated and a roadmap to a more holistic understanding of forest mortality across scales is presented to achieve scientific understanding for realistic predictions of drought-induced tree mortality.

TL;DR: The results confirm a recycling pathway for respired CO₂ and indicate that internal transport of CO⁂ from the root system may confound the interpretation of efflux-based estimates of woody tissue respiration and patterns of carbohydrate allocation.

TL;DR: Insight is provided into how embolism repair may have evolved, anatomical and physiological features that facilitate this process, and possible trade-offs and related costs, and it is proposed that emblism repair should be considered as a possible component of a ‘hydraulic efficiency-safety’ spectrum.

TL;DR: Drought-induced tree stress has gained increasing interest because of the recent coupling between forest decline and global change associated droughts, and recent studies indicate that isohydric and anisohydric tree species show both hydraulic failure and carbon starvation characteristics, evoking the image of a drought response continuum.

TL;DR: It is highlighted that photosynthesis at branch and stem level might be a key factor in the resilience of trees to drought stress by maintaining both the plant carbon economy and hydraulic function.