Drought Impacts on Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: transpiration; high-resolution stem radial growth; tree physiology; plant hydraulic traits; sap flow; dendroecology; drought resistance and resilience; tree phenology; plant adaptation to drought
Interests: plant hydraulics; water relations; drought resistance; wood anatomy; phenotypic plasticity
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change has caused more frequent extreme drought events, which increasingly threaten ecosystem function and services and weakens the potential to mitigate climate change. Declines in tree growth and/or adjustments in wood anatomy have emerged as consequences and a potential adaptive acclimation in woody plants. These biological processes include physiological responses in the seasonality of wood formation as well as structural and hydraulic adjustments in different plant organs at the multi-year scale.
Understanding the impacts of drought on tree growth and wood anatomy at different time scales is pivotal for assessing drought effects on forest ecosystem functioning and providing useful management options for forest adaptation. We are pleased to invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue focusing on “Drought Impacts on Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth”.
The aim of this Special Issue is to assemble related data to advance our understandings of drought impacts on forest growth, productivity, and wood anatomical properties. Studies using retrospective, modeling, and observational approaches, including but not limited to dendrochronology, wood anatomy, micro-coring, dendrometer, sap flow, etc., are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xinsheng Liu
Dr. Rosana López Rodríguez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- drought
- extreme drought events
- tree growth
- wood anatomy
- dendrometer
- sap flow
- micro-coring
- ecophysiology
- dendroecology
- ecohydrology
- drought resistance and resilience
- forest management
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