Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

Droughts pose an increasingly important threat to forests. Here the authors analyse a high-resolution Landsat-based dataset of forest canopy mortality in Europe over 1987–2016 to show that drought is already a major driver of tree mortality.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cornelius Senf, Allan Buras, Christian S. Zang, Anja Rammig, Rupert Seidl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19924-1