Maurizio Mencuccini
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View article: From growth potential to drought survival: a trait-and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species
From growth potential to drought survival: a trait-and time-based framework for plant water economics across vascular species Open
View article: Beyond proxies: towards ecophysiological indicators of drought resistance for forest management
Beyond proxies: towards ecophysiological indicators of drought resistance for forest management Open
As drought-induced mortality increases globally in forest biomes, it becomes necessary for foresters to have access to reliable predictors of species vulnerability to drought and mortality risk under different climatic scenarios. On one ha…
View article: Multi-biome assessment of tree water use resilience to drought
Multi-biome assessment of tree water use resilience to drought Open
View article: Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought Open
Drought-induced mortality is expected to cause substantial biomass loss in the Amazon basin. However, rainforest responses to prolonged drought are largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that an Amazonian rainforest plot subjected to more t…
View article: Spatial Sucrose Sink Profiles Shape Phloem Transport Efficiency and Xylem-Phloem Water Exchange
Spatial Sucrose Sink Profiles Shape Phloem Transport Efficiency and Xylem-Phloem Water Exchange Open
View article: Host species and temperature drive beech and Scots pine phyllosphere microbiota across European forests
Host species and temperature drive beech and Scots pine phyllosphere microbiota across European forests Open
View article: Xylem and Phloem in Petioles Are Coordinated With Leaf Gas Exchange in Oaks With Contrasting Anatomical Strategies Depending on Leaf Habit
Xylem and Phloem in Petioles Are Coordinated With Leaf Gas Exchange in Oaks With Contrasting Anatomical Strategies Depending on Leaf Habit Open
As the single link between leaves and the rest of the plant, petioles must develop conductive tissues according to the water influx and sugar outflow of the leaf lamina. A scaling relationship between leaf area and anatomical traits of xyl…
View article: A Theoretical Framework to Quantify Ecosystem Pressure‐Volume Relationships
A Theoretical Framework to Quantify Ecosystem Pressure‐Volume Relationships Open
‘Water potential’ is the biophysically relevant measure of water status in vegetation relating to stomatal, canopy and hydraulic conductance, as well as mortality thresholds; yet, this cannot be directly related to measured and modelled fl…
View article: Partial asynchrony of coniferous forest carbon sources and sinks at the intra-annual time scale
Partial asynchrony of coniferous forest carbon sources and sinks at the intra-annual time scale Open
View article: Towards accurate monitoring of water content in woody tissue across tropical forests and other biomes
Towards accurate monitoring of water content in woody tissue across tropical forests and other biomes Open
Forest ecosystems face increasing drought exposure due to climate change, necessitating accurate measurements of vegetation water content to assess drought stress and tree mortality risks. Although Frequency Domain Reflectometry offers a v…
View article: Community assembly influences plant trait economic spectra and functional trade-offs at ecosystem scales
Community assembly influences plant trait economic spectra and functional trade-offs at ecosystem scales Open
Plant functional traits hold the potential to greatly improve the understanding and prediction of climate impacts on ecosystems and carbon cycle feedback to climate change. Traits are commonly used to place species along a global conservat…
View article: Tree water uptake patterns across the globe
Tree water uptake patterns across the globe Open
Summary Plant water uptake from the soil is a crucial element of the global hydrological cycle and essential for vegetation drought resilience. Yet, knowledge of how the distribution of water uptake depth (WUD) varies across species, clima…
View article: Quantifying tree canopy nitrification across European forests
Quantifying tree canopy nitrification across European forests Open
Fluxes and chemical composition of precipitation is substantially changed after passing through tree canopies, particularly in the case of atmospheric nitrogen compounds, with important implications on forest nitrogen cycling. The causes o…
View article: Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles
Global variation in the ratio of sapwood to leaf area explained by optimality principles Open
The sapwood area supporting a given leaf area ( v H ) reflects a coordinated coupling between carbon uptake, water transport and loss at a whole plant level. Worldwide variation in v H reflects diverse plants strategies adapt to prevailing…
View article: A framework to study and predict functional trait syndromes using phylogenetic and environmental data
A framework to study and predict functional trait syndromes using phylogenetic and environmental data Open
Traits do not evolve in isolation but often as part of integrated trait syndromes, yet the relative contributions of environmental effects and evolutionary history on traits and their correlations are not easily resolved. In the present st…
View article: Substantial contribution of tree canopy nitrifiers to nitrogen fluxes in European forests
Substantial contribution of tree canopy nitrifiers to nitrogen fluxes in European forests Open
View article: Multi-Biome Assessment of Tree Water Use Resilience to Drought
Multi-Biome Assessment of Tree Water Use Resilience to Drought Open
View article: Plant hydraulics at the heart of plant, crops and ecosystem functions in the face of climate change
Plant hydraulics at the heart of plant, crops and ecosystem functions in the face of climate change Open
Summary Plant hydraulics is crucial for assessing the plants' capacity to extract and transport water from the soil up to their aerial organs. Along with their capacity to exchange water between plant compartments and regulate evaporation,…
View article: How are physiological responses to drought modulated by water relations and leaf economics’ traits in woody plants?
How are physiological responses to drought modulated by water relations and leaf economics’ traits in woody plants? Open
Species’ drought resistance is determined by a combination of multiple traits and their plastic response. However, a clear understanding of how these traits are coordinated and modulate plant responses to drought is still lacking.Here we u…
View article: Local adaptation shapes functional traits and resource allocation in black spruce
Local adaptation shapes functional traits and resource allocation in black spruce Open
View article: Plasticity in branch water relations and stem hydraulic vulnerability enhances hydraulic safety in mangroves growing along a salinity gradient
Plasticity in branch water relations and stem hydraulic vulnerability enhances hydraulic safety in mangroves growing along a salinity gradient Open
Coping with water stress depends on maintaining cellular function and hydraulic conductance. Yet measurements of vulnerability to drought and salinity do not often focus on capacitance in branch organs that buffer hydraulic function during…
View article: Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth
Rooting depth and xylem vulnerability are independent woody plant traits jointly selected by aridity, seasonality, and water table depth Open
Summary Evolutionary radiations of woody taxa within arid environments were made possible by multiple trait innovations including deep roots and embolism‐resistant xylem, but little is known about how these traits have coevolved across the…
View article: Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply
Vapour pressure deficit modulates hydraulic function and structure of tropical rainforests under nonlimiting soil water supply Open
Summary Atmospheric conditions are expected to become warmer and drier in the future, but little is known about how evaporative demand influences forest structure and function independently from soil moisture availability, and how fast‐res…
View article: Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality
Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality Open
View article: Tropical forest lianas have greater non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in the stem xylem than trees
Tropical forest lianas have greater non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in the stem xylem than trees Open
Lianas (woody vines) are important components of tropical forests and are known to compete with host trees for resources, decrease tree growth and increase tree mortality. Given the observed increases in liana abundance in some forests and…
View article: Accounting for trait variability and coordination in predictions of drought‐induced range shifts in woody plants
Accounting for trait variability and coordination in predictions of drought‐induced range shifts in woody plants Open
Summary Functional traits offer a promising avenue to improve predictions of species range shifts under climate change, which will entail warmer and often drier conditions. Although the conceptual foundation linking traits with plant perfo…
View article: The role of height‐driven constraints and compensations on tree vulnerability to drought
The role of height‐driven constraints and compensations on tree vulnerability to drought Open
Summary Frequent observations of higher mortality in larger trees than in smaller ones during droughts have sparked an increasing interest in size‐dependent drought‐induced mortality. However, the underlying physiological mechanisms are no…
View article: How woody plants adjust above‐ and below‐ground traits in response to sustained drought
How woody plants adjust above‐ and below‐ground traits in response to sustained drought Open
Summary Future increases in drought severity and frequency are predicted to have substantial impacts on plant function and survival. However, there is considerable uncertainty concerning what drought adjustment is and whether plants can ad…
View article: MEDFATE 2.9.3: a trait-enabled model to simulate Mediterranean forest function and dynamics at regional scales
MEDFATE 2.9.3: a trait-enabled model to simulate Mediterranean forest function and dynamics at regional scales Open
Regional-level applications of dynamic vegetation models are challenging because they need to accommodate the variation in plant functional diversity, which requires moving away from broadly defined functional types. Different approaches h…
View article: Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests
Basin-wide variation in tree hydraulic safety margins predicts the carbon balance of Amazon forests Open