Publications by Charlotte Grossiord

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In sub-Mediterranean ecosystems, shade-tolerant broadleaf evergreens, especially the invasive Trachycarpus fortunei, are spreading uncontrollably in the forest understorey, impeding the regeneration of the native deciduous woody vegetation. Most invasive s ...

Heat and drought affect plant chemical defenses and thereby plant susceptibility to pests and pathogens. Monoterpenes are of particular importance for conifers as they play critical roles in defense against bark beetles. To date, work seeking to understand ...

In recent years, an increasing number of studies have reported on forest declines and shifts in species composition in response to changing climatic conditions (Rigling et al. 2012). The intensification of droughts through rising evaporative demand (i.e., ...

As a consequence of ongoing climate change, trees are increasingly exposed to atmospheric and soil drought. The project “VPDrought - a novel approach to disentangle atmospheric and soil drought” investigates how trees respond to distinct and combined chang ...

Climate change imposes new constraints on tree survival, emphasising two key parameters: the vapour pressure deficit (VPD) and air temperature. Yet, no study has experimentally evaluated drought-induced tree mortality risk following acclimation to elevated ...

Enhancing tree diversity may be important to fostering resilience to drought-related climate extremes. So far, little attention has been given to whether tree diversity can increase the survival of trees and reduce its variability in young forest plantatio ...

center dot Mixing species with contrasting resource use strategies could reduce forest vulnerability to extreme events. Yet, how species diversity affects seedling hydraulic responses to heat and drought, including mortality risk, is largely unknown. Using ...

Chronic reductions in soil moisture combined with high air temperatures can modify tree carbon and water relations. However, little is known about how trees acclimate their foliar structure to the individual and combined effects of these two climate driver ...

Microcomputed tomography (mu CT) is a nondestructive X-ray imaging method used in plant physiology to visualize in situ plant tissues that enables assessments of embolized xylem vessels. Whereas evidence for X-ray-induced cellular damage has been reported, ...

Tree net carbon (C) uptake may decrease under global warming, as higher temperatures constrain photosynthesis while simultaneously increasing respiration. Thermal acclimation might mitigate this negative effect, but its capacity to do so under concurrent s ...

Coastal cities are facing a rise in groundwater levels induced by sea level rise, further triggering saturation excess flooding where groundwater levels reach the topographic surface or reduce the storage capacity of the soil, thus stressing the existing i ...

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, climates, and seasons is scarc ...

Understanding plant trait coordination and variance across climatic gradients is critical for assessing forests' adaptive potential to climate change. We measured 11 hydraulic, anatomical and leaf-level physiological traits in European beech (Fagus sylvati ...

Drought-associated woody-plant mortality has been increasing in most regions with multi-decadal records and is projected to increase in the future, impacting terrestrial climate forcing, biodiversity and resource availability. The mechanisms underlying suc ...

As air temperature and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) increase continuously, forests are losing more water through evapotranspiration, with large consequences for local and global hydrological cycles. In regions with high vegetation cover, soil warming can b ...

Many experiments have shown that biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning and stability and that this relationship varies with resource availability. However, we still have a poor understanding of the underlying physiological and ecological mechanisms d ...

Stomata regulate CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water loss through transpiration. The approaches used to represent stomatal conductance (g s) in models vary. In particular, current understanding of drivers of the variation in a key parameter in those mo ...

Journal of Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society.Tree species diversity in forest ecosystems could reduce their vulnerability to extreme droughts through improved microclimate and below-ground water source parti ...

Increasing severity and frequency of drought is predicted for large portions of the terrestrial biosphere, with major impacts already documented in wet tropical forests. Using a 4-year rainfall exclusion experiment in the Daintree Rainforest in northeast A ...

Heatwaves and soil droughts are increasing in frequency and intensity, leading many tree species to exceed their thermal thresholds, and driving wide-scale forest mortality. Therefore, investigating heat tolerance and canopy temperature regulation mechanis ...

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Invasive palms have more efficient and prolonged CO2 assimilation compared to native sub-Mediterranean vegetation

Hotter droughts alter resource allocation to chemical defenses in pinon pine

VPDrought – a novel approach to disentangle atmospheric and soil drought in a natural Scots pine forest

Tree functioning under different soil water availability and atmospheric water demand

Acclimation to High Vapor Pressure Deficit in Warmer Air Can Reduce Tree Vulnerability to Drought-Induced Mortality

Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought

Interactions between beech and oak seedlings can modify the effects of hotter droughts and the onset of hydraulic failure

Reduced soil moisture drives leaf anatomical shifts more than chronically elevated temperatures in European temperate trees

In vivo X-ray microtomography locally affects stem radial growth with no immediate physiological impact

Prolonged warming and drought reduce canopy‐level net carbon uptake in beech and oak saplings despite photosynthetic and respiratory acclimation

Nature-based solution enhances resilience to flooding and catalyzes multi-benefits in coastal cities in the Global South

Tree water uptake patterns across the globe

Aridity and cold temperatures drive divergent adjustments of European beech xylem anatomy, hydraulics and leaf physiological traits

Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

Soil warming alters tree water use and canopy stomatal conductance in a mixed subtropical forest

Both diversity and functional composition affect productivity and water use efficiency in experimental temperate grasslands

The response of stomatal conductance to seasonal drought in tropical forests

Drought effects in Mediterranean forests are not alleviated by diversity-driven water source partitioning

Stability of tropical forest tree carbon-water relations in a rainfall exclusion treatment through shifts in effective water uptake depth

High heat tolerance, evaporative cooling, and stomatal decoupling regulate canopy temperature and their safety margins in three European oak species