Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests.
A. Changenet, P. Ruiz-Benito, S. Ratcliffe, T. Frejaville, J. Archambeau, A. J. Porte, M. A. Zavala, J. Dahlgren, A. Lehtonen, M. Benito Garzon
The paper examines tree mortality patterns across Europe, finding higher occurrence near the climatic trailing edge but uniform intensity distribution across species ranges.
bioRxiv · Oct 30, 2020Ecology