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Gholizadeh H, Friedman MS, McMillan NA, Hammond WM, Hassani K, Sams AV, Charles MD, Garrett DR, Joshi O, Hamilton RG, Fuhlendorf SD, Trowbridge AM, Adams HD. 2022. Mapping invasive alien species in grassland ecosystems using airborne imaging spectroscopy and remotely observable vegetation functional traits. Accepted in Remote Sensing of Environment.

Hammond WM, Williams AP, Abatzoglou JT, Adams HD, Klein T, López R, Sáenz-Romero C, Hartmann H, Breshears DD, Allen CD. 2022. Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests. Accepted in Nature Communications.

McDowell NG, Sapes G, Pivovaroff A, Adams HD, Allen CD, Anderegg WRL, Arend M, Breshears DD, Brodribb T, Choat B, Cochard H, Cáceres MD, De Kauwe M, Grossiord C, Hammond WH, Hartmann H, Hoch G, Kahmen A, Klein T, Mackay DS, Mantova M, Martínez-Vilalta J, Medlyn BE, Mencuccini M, Nardini A, Oliveira RS, Sala A, Tissue DT, Torres-Ruiz JM, Trowbridge A, Trugman AT, Wiley E, Xu C. 2022. Mechanisms of woody plant mortality under rising drought, CO2, and vapor pressure deficit. Accepted in Nature Reviews Earth and Environment.

Trowbridge AM, Adams HD, Collins AC, Dickman LT, Grossiord C, Hofland M, Malone S, Weaver DK, Servanto S, Stoy PC, McDowell NG. 2021. Hotter droughts increase resource allocation to chemical defenses in piñon pine. Oecologia. 197: 921–938. doi: 10.1007/s00442-021-05058-8.

Collins AD, Ryan MG, Adams HD, Dickman LT, Garcia-Forner N, Grossiord C, Powers HH, Sevanto S, McDowell NG. 2021. Foliar respiration is related to photosynthetic, growth and carbohydrate response to experimental drought and elevated temperature. Plant, Cell & Environment. doi: 10.1111/pce.14183.

Adhikari A, Masters RE, Adams HD, Will RE. 2021. Radial growth responses of post oak (Quercus stellata) to climate variability and management in southeastern Oklahoma, USA. Accepted in Canadian Journal of Forestry Research. doi: 10.1139/cjfr-2021-0077.

Zhang H, Li X,, Wang W, Pivovaroff AL, Li W, Zhang P, Ward ND, Myers-Pigg A, Adams HD, Leff R, Wang A, Yuan F, Wu J, Tabusaki S, Waichler S, Bailey VL, Guan D, McDowell NG. 2021. Seawater exposure causes hydraulic damage in dying Stika-spruce trees. Plant Physiology 187:873-885. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiab295.

Adhikari A, Masters RE, Adams HD, Mainali KP, Zou CB, Joshi O, Will RE. 2021. Effects of climate variability and management on shortleaf pine radial growth across a forest-savanna continuum in a 34-year experiment. Forest Ecology and Management 491: Article 119125. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119125.

Partelli-Feltrin R, Smith AMS, Adams HD, Kolden CA, Johnson DM. 2020. Short- and long-term effects of fire on stem hydraulics in Pinus ponderosa saplings. Plant, Cell, and Environment In press. doi: 10.1111/pce.13881.

Kant M, Angle J, Hammond WM, Adams HD. 2020. Stressed about drought stress: measuring plant physiology in a rapidly changing climate. The American Biology Teacher 82: 553-559. doi: 10.1525/abt.2020.82.8.553.

Torquato PR, Zou CB, Adhikari A, Adams HD, Will RE. 2020. Drought tolerance and competition in eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) encroachment of the oak-dominated Cross Timbers. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: Article 59. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00059.

Zhang H, McDowell NG, Adams HD, Wang A, Wu J, Jin C, Tian J, Zhu K, Li W, Zhang Y, Yuan F, Guan D. 2020. Divergences in hydraulic conductance and anatomical traits of stems and leaves in three temperate tree species coping with drought, N addition and their interactions. Tree Physiology 40: 230-244.

Mackay, DS, Savoy PR, Grossiord C, Tai X, Pleban JR, Wang DR, McDowell NG, Adams HD, Sperry JS. 2020. Conifers depend on established roots during drought: results from a coupled model of carbon allocation and hydraulics. New Phytologist 225: 679-692.

Huang J, Kautz M, Trowbridge AM, Hammerbacher A, Raffa KF, Adams HD, Goodsman DW, Xu C, Meddens AJH, Kandasamy D, Gershenzon J, Siedl R, Hartmann H. 2020. Tree defence and bark beetles in a drying world: carbon partitioning, functioning and modelling. New Phytologist 225: 26–36.

Freeman AJ, Hammond WM, Dee JR, Cobb RC, Marek SM, Adams HD. The effect of prescribed fire on Biscogniauxia infection and δ13C in an upland oak-pine forest. 2019. Forest Ecology and Management Article 117525.

Hammond WM, Yu K, Wilson LA, Will RE, Anderegg WRL, Adams HD. 2019. Dead or dying? Quantifying the point of no return from hydraulic failure in drought-induced tree mortality. New Phytologist 223: 1834-1843.

Hammond WM and Adams HD. 2019. Dying on time: dynamics of tree mortality risk from drought. Tree Physiology 39: 906-909.

Trowbridge AM, Stoy PC, Adams HD, Law DJ, Breshears DD, Helmig D, Monson RK. 2019. Drought supersedes warming in determining volatile and tissue defenses of piñon pine (Pinus edulis). Environmental Research Letters 14: Article 065006.

Zeppel M, Anderegg WRL, Adams HD, Hudson P, Cook A, Rumman R, Eamus D, Tissue D, Pacala S. 2019. Embolism recovery strategies and nocturnal water loss across species influenced by biogeographic origin.Ecology and Evolution 9: 5348-5361.

McDowell NG, Grossiord C, Adams HD, Pinzon Navarro S, Mackay DS, Breshears DD, Allen CD, Borrego I, Dickman LT, Collins AD, Gaylord ML, McBranch NA, Pockman WT, Vilagrosa A, Aukema B, Goodsman D, Xu C. 2019. Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat. Environmental Research Letters 14: Article 045014.

Law DJ, Adams HD, Breshears DD, Cobb NS, Bradford JB, Zou CB, Field JP, Gardea AA, Williams AP, Huxman TE. 2019. Bioclimatic envelopes for individual demographic events driven by extremes: plant mortality from drought and warming. International Journal of Plant Sciences 180: 53-62.

Landhäusser SM, Chow PS, Dickman LT, Furze ME, Kuhlman I, Schmid S, Wiesenbauer J, Wild B, Gleixner G, Hartmann H, Hoch G, McDowell NG, Richardson AD, Richter A, Adams HD. 2018. Standardized protocols and procedures can precisely and accurately quantify non-structural carbohydrates. Tree Physiology 38:1764-1778.

Dee JR, Adams HD, Palmer MW. 2018. Belowground annual ring growth coordinates with aboveground phenology and timing of carbon storage in two tallgrass prairie forb species. American Journal of Botany 105:1975-1985..

Li W, Hartmann H, Adams HD, Zhang H, Jin C, Zhao C, Guan D, Wang A, Yuan F, Wu J. 2018. The sweet side of global change–dynamic responses of non-structural carbohydrates to drought, elevated CO2, and N fertilization in tree species. Tree Physiology 10.1093/treephys/tpy059.

McBranch NA, Grossiord C, Adams HD, Borrego I, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Ryan M, Sevanto S, McDowell NG. 2018. Lack of acclimation of leaf area:sapwood area ratios in piñon pine and juniper in response to precipitation reduction and warming.Tree Physiology Accepted.

Zhang H, McDowell NG, Adams HD, Wang A, Wu J, Jin C, Tian J, Zhu K, Li W, Zhang Y, Yuan F, Guan D. 2020. Divergences in hydraulic conductance and anatomical traits of stems and leaves in three temperate tree species coping with drought, N addition and their interactions. Tree Physiology 40: 230-244.

Manrique-Alba À, Sevanto SA, Adams HD; Collins AD, Dickman LT, Chirino E, Bellot J, McDowell NG. 2018. Stem radial growth and water storage responses to heat and drought vary between conifers with differing hydraulic strategies.
Plant, Cell & Environment doi:10.1111/pce.13340ß.

Hein CJ, Ten Hoeve JE, Gopalakrishnan S, Livneh B, Adams HD, Marino EK, Weiler CS. 2018. Overcoming early career barriers to interdisciplinary climate change research. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change doi:10.1002/wcc.530.

Hartmann H, Adams HD, Hammond WM, Hoch G, Landhäusser SM, Wiley E, Zähle S. 2018. Identifying differences in carbohydrate dynamics of seedlings and mature trees to improve carbon allocation in models for trees and forests. Environmental and Experimental Botany doi:10.1016/j.envexpbot.2018.03.011

Hartmann H, Moura CF, Anderegg WRL, Ruehr NK, Salmon Y, Allen CD, Arndt S, Breshears DD, Davi, H, Galbraith D, Ruthroff KX, Wunder J, Adams HD, Bloemen J, Cailleret M, Cobb R, Gessler A, Grams TEE, Jansen S, Kautz M, Lloret F, O’Brien MJ. 2018. Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality. New Phytologist 218:15-28.

Cobb RC, Ruthrof KX, Breshears DD, Lloret F, Aakala T, Adams HD, Allen CD, Anderegg WRL, Ewers BE, Galiano L, Grünzweig JM, Hartmann H, Huang C-Y, Klein T, Kunert N, Kitzberger T, Landhäusser SM, Levick S, Priesler Y, Suarez ML, Trotsiuk V, Zeppel MJB. 2017. Ecosystem dynamics and management after forest die-off: a global synthesis with conceptual state-and-transition models. Ecosphere 8 Article e02034.

Adams HD, Barron-Gafford GA, Minor RL, Gardea AA, Bentley LP, Law DJ, Breshears DD, McDowell NG, Huxman TE. 2017. The temperature response surface for mortality risk of tree species with future drought. Environmental Research Letters 12: Article 115014.

Adams HD, Zeppel MJB, Anderegg WRL, Hartmann H, Landhäusser SM, Tissue DT, Huxman TE, Hudson PJ, Franz TE, Allen CD, Anderegg LDL, Barron-Gafford GA, Beerling DJ, Breshears DD, Brodribb TJ, Bugmann H, Cobb RC, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Duan H, Ewers BE, Galiano L, Galvez DA, Garcia-Forner N, Gaylord ML, Germino MG, Gessler A, Hacke UG, Hakamada R, Hector A, Jenkins MW, Kane JM, Kolb TE, Law DJ, Lewis JD, Limousin J-M, Love DM, Macalady AK, Martinez-Vilalta J, Mencuccini M, Mitchell PJ, Muss JD, O'Brien MJ, O'Grady AP, Pangle RE, Pinkard EA, Piper FI, Plaut JA, Pockman WT, Quirk J, Reinhardt K, Ripullone F, Ryan MG, Sala A, Sevanto S, Sperry JS, Vargas R, Vennetier M, Way DA, Xu C, Yepez EA, McDowell NG. 2017. A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality.
Nature Ecology and Evolution 1: 1285-1291.

Smith AMS, Talhelm AF, Johnson DM, Sparks AM, Kolden CA, Yedinak KM, Apostol KG, Tinkham WT, Abatzoglu JT, Lutz JA, Davis AS, Pregitzer KS, Adams HD, Kremens RL. 2017. Effects of fire radiative energy density dose on Pinus contorta and Larix occidentalis seedling physiology and mortality. International Journal of Wildland Fire 26:82-94.

Grossiord C, Sevanto S, Adams HD, Collins AD, Dickman LT, McBranch N, Michaletz S, Stockton EA, Vigil M, McDowell NG. 2017. Precipitation, not air temperature, drives functional responses of trees in semi-arid ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 105:163-175.

Grossiord C, Sevanto S, Dawson TE, Adams HD, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Newman BD, Stockton EA, McDowell NG. 2017. Warming combined with more extreme precipitation regimes modifies the water sources of trees. New Phytologist 213: 584-596.

Garcia-Forner N, Adams HD, Sevanto S, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Hudson P, Zeppel MJB, Martínez-Vilalta J, McDowell NG. 2016. Responses of two semiarid conifer tree species to reduced precipitation and warming reveal new perspectives for stomatal regulation. Plant, Cell, and Environment 39:38-49.

Smith AMS, Talhelm AF, Kolden CA, Newingham BA, Adams HD, Cohen JD, Yedinak KM, Kremens RL. 2016. The ability of winter grazing to reduce wildfire size and fire-induced plant mortality was not demonstrated: A comment on Davies et al. 2015. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25:484-488.

Adams HD, Collins AD, Briggs SP, Vennetier M, Dickman LT, Sevanto SA, Garcia-Forner N, Powers HH, McDowell NG. 2015. Experimental drought and heat can delay development and reduce foliar and shoot growth in semiarid trees. Global Change Biology 21:4210-4220. doi:10.1111/gcb.13030.

Garcia-Forner N, Adams HD, Sevanto S, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Hudson P, Zeppel MJB, Martínez-Vilalta J, McDowell NG. 2015. Responses of two semiarid conifer tree species to reduced precipitation and warming reveal new perspectives for stomatal regulation. Plant, Cell, and Environment. doi:10.1111/pce.12588

Villegas JC, Dominguez F, Barron-Gafford GA, Adams HD, Guardiola-Claramonte M, Sommer E, Wiede AL, Rivera IC, Espeleta JF, Zou CB, Breshears DD, Huxman TE. 2015. Sensitivity of regional evapotranspiration partitioning to variation in woody plant cover. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi:10.1111/geb.12349

Zeppel MJB, Harrison SP, Adams HD, Li G, Kelley DI, West A, Dawson T, Fensham R. Medlyn BR, Palmer A, Tissue DT, McDowell NG. 2015. Drought and resprouting plants. New Phytologist 206:583-589.

Hartmann H, Adams HD, Anderegg WRL, Jansen S, Zeppel MJB. 2015. Research frontiers in drought-induced tree mortality: crossing scales and disciplines. New Phytologist 205:965-969.

Adams HD, Williams AP, Xu C, Rauscher SA, Jiang X, McDowell NG. 2013. Empirical and process-based approaches to climate-induced forest mortality models. Frontiers in Plant Science 4: Article 438.

Breshears DD, Adams HD, Eamus D, McDowell NG, Law DJ, Will RE, Williams AP, Zou CB. 2013. The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off.
Frontiers in Plant Science 4: Article 266.

Franz TE, Zreda M, Rosolem R, Hornbuckle BK, Irvin SL, Adams HD, Kolb TE, Zweck C, Shuttleworth WJ. 2013. Ecosystem-scale measurements of biomass water using cosmic ray neutrons. Geophysical Research Letters 40:3929-3933.

Adams HD, Germino MJ, Breshears DD, Barron-Gafford GA, Guardiola-Claramonte M, Zou CB, Huxman TE. 2013. Nonstructural leaf carbohydrate dynamics of Pinus edulis during drought-induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism. New Phytologist 197:1142-1151.

Zeppel MJB, Anderegg WRL Adams HD 2013. Forest mortality due to drought: latest insights, evidence and unresolved questions on physiological pathways and consequences of tree death. New Phytologist 197:372-374.

Adams, HD, Luce CH, Breshears DD, Allen CD, Weiler M, Hale VC, Smith AMS, Huxman TE. 2012. Ecohydrological consequences of drought- and infestation-triggered tree die-off: Insights and hypotheses. Ecohydrology 5:145-159.

Royer PD, Cobb NS, Clifford MJ, Huang C, Breshears DD, Adams HD, Villegas JC. 2011. Extreme event-triggered overstory vegetation loss increases understory solar input regionally: multi-scale ecological implications. Journal of Ecology 99:714-723.

Zeppel MJB, Adams HD, Anderegg WRL 2011. Mechanistic causes of tree drought mortality: recent results, unresolved questions and future research needs. New Phytologist 192:800-803.

Adams HD, Macalady AK, Breshears DD, Allen CD, Stephenson NL, Saleska SR, Huxman TE, McDowell NG. 2010. Climate-induced tree mortality: earth system consequences. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 91:153-154.

Koepke, DF, Kolb TE, Adams HD. 2010. Variation in woody plant mortality and dieback from severe drought among soils, plant groups, and species within a northern Arizona ecotone. Oecologia. 163:1079-1090.

Adams HD et al. 2009. Reply to Leuzinger et al.: Drought-induced tree mortality temperature sensitivity requires pressing forward with best available science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106:E107-E107.

Adams HD et al. 2009. Reply to Sala: Temperature sensitivity in drought-induced tree mortality hastens the need to further resolve a physiological model of death. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106:E69-E69.

Adams HD, Guardiola-Claramonte M, Barron-Gafford GA, Villegas JC, Breshears DD, Zou CB, Troch PA, Huxman TE. 2009. Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 106:7063-7066.

Barger NN, Adams HD, Woodhouse CA, Neff JC, Asner GP. 2009. Influence of livestock grazing and climate on pinyon pine (Pins edulis) dynamics. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 62:531-539.

Breshears DD, Huxman TE, Adams HD, Zou CB, Davison JE. 2008. Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 105: 11591-11592.

McDowell NG, Adams HD, Bailey JD, Kolb TE. 2007. The role of stand density on growth efficiency, leaf area index, and resin flow in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:343-355.

McDowell NG, Adams HD, Bailey JD, Hess M, Kolb TE. 2006. Homeostatic maintenance of ponderosa pine gas exchange in response to stand density changes. Ecological Applications 16:1164-1182.

Adams HD and Kolb TE. 2005. Tree growth response to drought and temperature in a mountain landscape in northern Arizona, USA. Journal of Biogeography 32:1629-1640.

Adams HD and Kolb TE. 2004. Drought responses of conifers in ecotone forests of northern Arizona: tree ring growth and leaf δ13C. Oecologia. 140:217-225.

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