Towards a global understanding of tree mortality

Senf Cornelius; Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert; Thomas a M Pugh; William Anderegg; Kristina Anderson-Teixeira; Gabriel Arellano; Schwenke Mirela Beloiu; Barbara Bentz; Hans Juergen Boehmer; Ben Bond-Lamberty; Kauane Maiara Bordin; Francis Q Brearley; Filippo Bussotti; Maxime Cailleret; Julio Camarero; Gherardo Chirici; Flávia Costa; Ricardo Dalagnol; Hendrik Davi; Stuart J. Davies; Sylvain Delzon; Dhakal, Bishnu; Renato A Ferreira de Lima; Marco Ferretti; Fabrice Joseph Fontaine; Matteo Garbarino; André Luis de Gasper; Arthur Gessler; Gregory Gilbert; John Godlee; Francisco Maiato Pedro Gonçalves; Leen Govaere; Alvaro G Gutiérrez; Cardozo, Ernesto; William Hammond; Henrik Hartmann; Martina Hobi; Holz Andres; Juergen Homeier; Hovenden Mark; Huang Cho-Ying; Bruno Hérault; Toby Jackson; Tommaso Jucker; Alistair Jump; Samuli Junttila; Teja Kattenborn; Joice Klipel; Martyna M Kotowska; Kamil Král; Nicolas Portal; Lopez-Toledo Leonel; René López-Camacho; Eduardo Eiji Maeda; Diaz Jesus; Emanuel H Martin; Jordi Martínez‐vilalta; Nate Mcdowell; Moonlight Peter; Akira S Mori; Muda Mohd Afzanizam; Mund Jan-Peter; Robert Muscarella; Mendez-Toribio Moises; Sandra Mueller; Thomas A. Nagel; Neagu Stefan; Nock Charles Andrew; Moses Nsanyi Sainge; O'Brien Michael; Joseph Penuelas; George L. W. Perry; Oliver L. Phillips; Juan Manuel Posada; Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues; Roman Anamaria; Guillaume Xavier-Rousseau; Ruehr Nadine Katrin; Paloma Ruiz-Benito; Katinka X. Ruthrof; Christian Salas-Eljatib; Sanders Tajna; Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin; Tobias Scharnweber; M.J. Schelhaas; Bernhard Schuldt; Schwarz Selina; Rupert Seidl; Ekaterina Shorohova; Ana Carolina da Silva; Sioen Geert; Jaroslaw Socha; Krzysztof Stereńczak; Jonas Stillhard; Stojanovic Dejan B; Susanne Suvanto; Miroslav Svoboda; Martina Sánchez‐pinillos; Andrew J Tanentzap; Anthony Taylor; Farah Fabiano Turini; Giorgio Vacchiano; Alexander C. Vibrans; Alberto A. Vilagrosa; Emilio Vilanova; Lars T Waser; Susan K Wiser; Kailiang Yu; Miguel Zavala; Oliveira Laio Zimermannlaio; Zuleta Daniel; de Castro-Faria Alvaro Boson; Ernst van der Maaten; Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen

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Towards a global understanding of tree mortality

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Towards a global understanding of tree mortality

Senf Cornelius, Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Thomas a M Pugh, William Anderegg, Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Gabriel Arellano, Schwenke Mirela Beloiu, Barbara Bentz, Hans Juergen Boehmer, Ben Bond-Lamberty, …

New Phytologist, Vol.245(6), pp.2377 - 2392

31/01/2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20407

Abstract

disturbance

forest inventory

forest monitoring

remote sensing

tree dieback

Rates of tree mortality are increasing globally, with implications for forests and climate. Yet, how and why these trends vary globally remain unknown. Developing a comprehensive assessment of global tree mortality will require systematically integrating data from ground-based long-term forest monitoring with large-scale remote sensing. We surveyed the metadata from 466 865 forest monitoring plots across 89 countries and five continents using questionnaires and discuss the potential to use these to estimate tree mortality trends globally. Our survey shows that the area monitored has increased steadily since 1960, but we also identify many regions with limited ground-based information on tree mortality. The integration of existing ground-based forest inventories with remote sensing and modelling can potentially fill those gaps, but this requires development of technical solutions and agreements that enable seamless flows of information from the field to global assessments of tree mortality. A truly global monitoring effort should promote fair and equitable collaborations, transferring funding to and empowering scientists from less wealthy regions. Increasing interest in forests as a natural climate solution, the advancement of new technologies and world-wide connectivity means that now a global monitoring system of tree mortality is not just urgently needed but also possible.

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Title: Towards a global understanding of tree mortality
Creators - without role: Senf Cornelius - Technical University of Munich
Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert - University of Birmingham
Thomas a M Pugh - University of Birmingham
William Anderegg - University of Utah
Kristina Anderson-Teixeira - Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Gabriel Arellano - University of Michigan System
Schwenke Mirela Beloiu - Swiss Federal Research Institute
Barbara Bentz - Agricultural Research Service
Hans Juergen Boehmer
Ben Bond-Lamberty
Kauane Maiara Bordin
Francis Q Brearley - Manchester Metropolitan University
Filippo Bussotti
Maxime Cailleret - Risques, Ecosystèmes, Vulnérabilité, Environnement, Résilience
Julio Camarero - Instituto IMDEA Nanociencia [Madrid]
Gherardo Chirici - University of Florence
Flávia Costa - National Institute of Amazonian Research
Ricardo Dalagnol
Hendrik Davi - Écologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
Stuart J. Davies - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Sylvain Delzon - Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés
Dhakal, Bishnu
Renato A Ferreira de Lima
Marco Ferretti
Fabrice Joseph Fontaine - Institut de physique du globe de Paris
Matteo Garbarino - Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences [Grugliasco, TO, Italy]
André Luis de Gasper - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Arthur Gessler - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Gregory Gilbert - University of California [Santa Cruz]
John Godlee - University of Edinburgh
Francisco Maiato Pedro Gonçalves
Leen Govaere
Alvaro G Gutiérrez - University of Chile
Cardozo, Ernesto
William Hammond - University of Florida [Gainesville]
Henrik Hartmann - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Martina Hobi
Holz Andres
Juergen Homeier
Hovenden Mark
Huang Cho-Ying
Bruno Hérault - Forêts et Sociétés
Toby Jackson - University of Cambridge
Tommaso Jucker - University of Bristol
Alistair Jump - University of Stirling
Samuli Junttila - University of Eastern Finland
Teja Kattenborn - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Joice Klipel - Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Martyna M Kotowska - University of Göttingen
Kamil Král
Nicolas Portal - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique
Lopez-Toledo Leonel
René López-Camacho
Eduardo Eiji Maeda - University of Helsinki
Diaz Jesus
Emanuel H Martin
Jordi Martínez‐vilalta - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Nate Mcdowell - Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99354 USA
Moonlight Peter
Akira S Mori - Yokohama National University
Muda Mohd Afzanizam
Mund Jan-Peter
Robert Muscarella - Uppsala University
Mendez-Toribio Moises
Sandra Mueller - University of Freiburg
Thomas A. Nagel - University of Ljubljana
Neagu Stefan
Nock Charles Andrew
Moses Nsanyi Sainge
O'Brien Michael
Joseph Penuelas - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
George L. W. Perry - The University of Texas at San Antonio
Oliver L. Phillips - University of Leeds
Juan Manuel Posada
Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues - Laboratory of Ecology and Forest Restoration
Roman Anamaria
Guillaume Xavier-Rousseau
Ruehr Nadine Katrin
Paloma Ruiz-Benito - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Katinka X. Ruthrof - Murdoch University
Christian Salas-Eljatib
Sanders Tajna
Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin
Tobias Scharnweber
M.J. Schelhaas - Green World Research
Bernhard Schuldt
Schwarz Selina
Rupert Seidl - BOKU University
Ekaterina Shorohova
Ana Carolina da Silva
Sioen Geert
Jaroslaw Socha
Krzysztof Stereńczak
Jonas Stillhard - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Stojanovic Dejan B
Susanne Suvanto - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Miroslav Svoboda - Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Martina Sánchez‐pinillos - Université de Montpellier, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier - ISEM
Andrew J Tanentzap - Yale School of the Environment
Anthony Taylor - University of Portsmouth
Farah Fabiano Turini
Giorgio Vacchiano - University of Milan
Alexander C. Vibrans - Universidade Regional de Blumenau
Alberto A. Vilagrosa - Centre d'Estudis Ambientals del Mediterrani = Centre for Mediterranean Environmental Studies
Emilio Vilanova - Wildlife Conservation Society
Lars T Waser
Susan K Wiser - Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
Kailiang Yu - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Miguel Zavala - Universidad de Alcalá
Oliveira Laio Zimermannlaio
Zuleta Daniel
de Castro-Faria Alvaro Boson
Ernst van der Maaten - Institute for Forest Growth
Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen
Publication Details: New Phytologist, Vol.245(6), pp.2377 - 2392
Grant note: Volkswagen Foundation for the symposium ‘Crossing scales and disciplines to identify global trends in tree mortality as indicator of forest health’ (A122411–AZ 92813) European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement no.: 758873, TreeMort); European Forest Institute Network Fund. Royal Society Standard (grant no.: RGS\R1\221115; ‘MegaFlora’), the UKRI/NERC TreeScapes NE/V021346/1 ‘MEMBRA’, the FRB/CESAB ‘Syn-treesys’ and the NERC/NSF consortium ‘Gigante’. OLP wassupported by FORAMA (Royal Society project to OLP, awardref.: ICA\R1\180100). Swedish Research Council (grant no.: 2019-03758). PR-B and MAZacknowledge funding from Science and Innovation Ministry (IB-ForRes, subproject LARGE, no.: PID2021-123675OB-C41) andStimulus to Excellence for Permanent University Professors (no.:EPU-INV/2020/010). Royal Society of New Zealand’s Marsden Fund. AR acknowledge funding from Projects:BioClimpact (nos.: 7/23020401 and SPECTRAVEG-PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-4924). Chilean National Agency for Science (grant FONDECYT no.: 1231458). TJ acknowledges funding from NERC IndependentResearch Fellowship (grant code: NE/S01537X/1). National Science Foundation DEB-1655896.National Science and Technology Council (NSTC 111-2121-M-002-001). E Kone Foundation (project: 202 005 775 RETROFOR –RETention forestry as a tool to secure Resilience and sustainability in Operational FORest management). KK was supported by the Institutional Support of VUKOZ-00027073. INERTIA project PID2019-111332RB-C22. JM-V was supported by Grant PID2021-127452NB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGener-ationEU/PRTR; grant 2021 SGR 00849 funded by AGAUR; andICREA Academia. German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) (grant code: 50EE1909A). AG FORWARDS project (EU project no.: 101084481) funded by the European Union and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Fondecyt 11150835, Fondecyt 1200468 and Grant ANID PIA/BASAL FB210006. MS-P acknowledges funding fromthe European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (grant agreement no.: 891477). RS was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no.: 101001905). CNPq for the productivity (grant no.: 307861/2023-6). ACV was supported by CNPq for research grants (305199/2022-6; 408242/ 2021-3). BB-L was supported by COMPASS-FME, a multi- institutional project supported by the US Department of Energy, Ofﬁce of Science, Biological and Environmental Research as part ofthe Environmental System Science Program. JF was supported by ARC LP160100996; MO acknowledges funding from Agencia Estatal de Investigacion de Espa~na (Ramon y Cajal, RYC2021- 032049-I). SJ acknowledges funding from the Academy of Finland (grant nos.: 330422, 337127). JP acknowledges TED2021-132627B-I00 grant, funded by MCIN and the European Union NextGeneration EU/PRTR. AJ acknowledges funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (grant nos.: NE/V00929X/ 1, NE/S010041/1 and NE/Y004205/1). BB-L and NM were supported by COMPASS-FME, a multi-institutional project funded by the US Department of Energy, Ofﬁce of Science, Biological and Environmental Research, as part of the Environmental System Science Program. NM was also supported by the Department ofEnergy’s Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment-Tropics and by the US National Science Foundation. RRR acknowledges funding from Fundacß~ao de Amparo a pesquisa do estado de S~ao Paulo- FAPESP (grant codes: 2018/18416-2, 2013/50718-5 and 1999/09635-0). NLP acknowledges funding from the Italian FEM projects grant no.: P1611006I. GXR was supported by FAPEMA (grant nos.: APP 01045/10 and APP 00262/12) and CAPES (grant no.: 3281/13). HJB acknowledges funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) (grant no.: BO 1768). RAFL and SS acknowl-edge funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (grant agreement nos.: 795114 and 895158). LTW acknowledges funding from the Swiss NFI, a cooperative effort between the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the Swiss Federal Ofﬁce for the Environment (FOEN). MMT acknowledges the funding provided by Comision Nacional de AreasNaturales Protegidas and CONAHCYT – INECOL Chair (Project no.: 673; ‘Etnobiologıa, interacciones biologicas y restauracion Ó 2025 The Author(s). New Phytologist Ó 2025 New Phytologist Foundation. New Phytologist (2025) 245: 2377–2392 www.newphytologist.com New Phytologist Viewpoint Forum 2385 ecologica en el Centro – Occidente de Mexico). EGC was supported by CAPES (grant no.: 3281/13). KS acknowledges funding from Project LIFE+ orBioSensing (contract no.: LIFE13ENV/PL/ 000048) and Poland’s National Fund for Environmental Protectionand Water Management (contract no.: 485/2014/WN10/ OPNMLF/D). This study draws on and contributes to ideas andinitiatives of the International Union of Forest Research Organiza- tions (IUFRO) Task Force on monitoring global tree mortality trends and patterns. GA acknowledges funding from the US National Science Foundation award no.: 2020424: ‘AccelNet: International Tropical Forest Science Alliance (ITFSA
Identifiers: 9937366509311
Academic Unit: Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution - Montpellier - ISEM
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
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