Please forward this on to any interested parties: Now available.... Kliejunas, John T.; Geils, Brian W.; Glaeser, Jessie Micales; Goheen, Ellen Michaels; Hennon, Paul; Kim, Mee-Sook; Kope, Harry; Stone, Jeff; Sturrock, Rona; Frankel, Susan J. 2009. Review of literature on climate change and forest diseases of western North America. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-225. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 54 p. Online at: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr225/ Hardcopy. There is NO charge for this publication and to order a free copy: Email: rschneider(a)fs.fed.us (include your full mailing address and the publication name or number) FAX: (970) 498-1122 Phone: (970) 498-1392 By US Mail: Send your name and address in block format (as if you are addressing an envelope) to: Publishing Services Rocky Mountain Research Station 240 West Prospect Road Fort Collins, CO 80526-2098 USA ALSO... we have updated the Annotated Bibliography of Climate and Forest Diseases of Western North America http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/climate_change/forest_disease/fdbib/ to add the following publications: Allen, C.D. 2009. Climate-induced forest dieback: An escalating global phenomenon?. Unasylva. 231/232 60(1-2): 43-49. Allen, Craig D.; Breshears, David D. 1998. Drought-induced shift of a forest?woodland ecotone: rapid landscape response to climate variation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 95(25): 14839-14842. Beier, Colin M.; Sink, Scot E.; Hennon, Paul E.; D'amore, David V.; Juday, Glenn P. 2008. Twentieth-century warming and the dendroclimatology of declining yellow-cedar forests in southeastern Alaska. Can. J. For. Res. 38(6): 1319-1334. Blennow, Kristina; Andersson, Mikael; Sallnäs, Ola; Olofsson, Erika 2009. Climate change and the probability of wind damage in two Swedish forests. Forest Ecol. Manage. (2009), doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.07.004. Brenes-Arguedas, Tania; Coley, Phyllis D.; Kursar, Thomas A. 2009. Pests vs. drought as determinants of plant distribution along a tropical rainfall gradient. Ecology. 90(7): 1751-1761. Adams, Henry D.; Guardiola-Claramonte, Maite; Barron-Gafford, Greg A.; Camilo Villegas, Juan; Breshears, David D.; Zou, Chris B.; Troch, Peter A.; Huxman, Travis E. 2009. Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(17): 7063-7066. Breshears, David D.; Myers, Orrin B.; Meyer, Clifton W.; Barnes, Fairley J.; Zou, Chris B.; Allen, Craig D.; McDowell, Nathan G.; Pockman, William T. 2009. Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 7(4): 185-189. Brodribb, Tim J.; Cochard, Hervé 2009. Hydraulic failure defines the recovery and point of death in water-stressed conifers. Plant Physiology 149(1): 575-584. Dukes, Jeffrey S.; Pontius, Jennifer; Orwig, David; Garnas, Jeffrey R.; Rodgers, Vikki L.; Brazee, Nicholas; Cooke, Barry; Theoharides, Kathleen A.; Stange, Erik E.; Harrington, Robin; Ehrenfeld, Joan; Gurevitch, Jessica; Lerdau, Manuel; Stinson, Kristina; Wick, Robert; Ayres, Matthew 2009. Responses of insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plant species to climate change in the forests of northeastern North America: What can we predict? . Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 39( 2): 231-248. Gregory, Peter J.; Johnson, Scott N.; Newton, Adrian C.; Ingram, John S. I. 2009. Integrating pests and pathogens into the climate change/food security debate. Journal of Experimental Botany. 60 (10): p. 2827-2838. Harsch, Melanie A.; Hulme, Philip E.; McGlone, Matt S.; Duncan, Richard P. 2009. Are treelines advancing? A global meta-analysis of treeline response to climate warming. Ecology Letters. 12(10): 1040-1049. Klopfenstein, Ned B.; Kim, Mee-Sook; Hanna, John W.; Richardson, Bryce A.; Lundquist, John E. 2009. Approaches to predicting potential impacts of climate change on forest disease: an example with Armillaria root disease. Res. Pap. RMRS-RP-76. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 10 p. Lake, Janice Ann; Wade, Ruth Nicola 2009. Plant-pathogen interactions and elevated CO2: morphological changes in favour of pathogens. Journal of Experimental Botany. 60(11): 3123-3131. Linton, M. J.; Sperry, J. S.; Williams, D. G. 1998. Limits to Water Transport in Juniperus osteosperma and Pinus edulis: Implications for drought tolerance and regulation of transpiration . Functional Ecology. 12(6): 906-911. Lutz, J.A.; van Wagtendonk, J.W.; Franklin, J.F. 2009. Twentieth-century decline of large-diameter trees in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 257(11): p. 2296-2307. McDowell, Nate; Pockman, William T.; Allen, Craig D.; Breshears, David D.; Cobb, Neil; Kolb, Thomas; Plaut, Jennifer; Sperry, John; West, Adam; Williams, David G.; Yepez, Enrico A. 2008. Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?. New Phytologist. 178(4): 719 - 739. Millar, C.I.; Westfall, R.D.; Delany, D.L. 2007. Response of high-elevation limber pine (Pinus flexilis) to multiyear droughts and 20th-century warming, Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 37(12): 2508-2520. Mueller, Rebecca C.; Scudder, Crescent M.; Porter, Marianne E.; Trotter, R. Talbot III; Gehring, Catherine A.; Whitham, Thomas G. 2005. Differential tree mortality in response to severe drought: evidence for long-term vegetation shifts. Journal of Ecology. 93(6): 1085-1093 Niinemets, Ülo; Valladares, Fernando 2006. Tolerance to shade, drought, and waterlogging of temperate northern hemisphere trees and shrubs. Ecological Monographs. 76(4): 521?547. Six, D.L.; Bentz, B.J. 2007. Temperature determines symbiont abundance in a multipartite bark beetle-fungus ectosymbiosis. Microbial Ecology. 54(1): 112-118. van Mantgem, Phillip J.; Stephenson, Nathan L.; Byrne, John C.; Daniels, Lori D.; Franklin, Jerry F.; Fulé, Peter Z.; Harmon, Mark E.; Larson, Andrew J.; Smith, Jeremy M.; Taylor, Alan H.; Veblen, Thomas T. 2009. Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States. Science. Vol. 323(5913): 521-524. Walther, Gian-Reto; Roques, Alain; Hulme, Philip E.; Sykes, Martin T.; Py?ek, Petr; Kühn, Ingolf; Zobel, Martin; Bacher, Sven; Botta-Dukát, Zoltán; Bugmann, Harald; Czúcz, Bálint; Dauber, Jens; Hickler, Thomas; Jaroík, Vojtech; Kenis, Marc; Klotz, Stefan; Minchin, Dan; Moora, Mari; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Ott, Jürgen; Panov,Vadim E.; Reineking, Björn; Robinet,Christelle; Semenchenko, Vitaliy; Solarz, Wojciech; Thuiller, Wilfried; Vilà, Montserrat; Vohland, Katrin; Settele, Josef 2009. Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution - 26 August 2009. Watt, Michael S.; Kriticos, Darren J.; Alcaraz, Samantha; Brown, Anna V.; Leriche, Agathe 2009. The hosts and potential geographic range of Dothistroma needle blight. Forest Ecology and Management Volume 257( 6): 1505-1519 . West, A. G.; Hultine, K. R.; Sperry, J. S.; Bush, S. E.; Ehleringer, J. R. 2008. Transpiration and hydraulic strategies in a piñon?juniper woodland. Ecological Applications. 18(4): 911?927. Zeng, Hongcheng; Chambers, Jeffrey Q.; Negrón-Juárez, Robinson I.; Hurtt, George C.; Baker, David B.; Powell, Mark D. 2009. Impacts of tropical cyclones on U.S. forest tree mortality and carbon flux from 1851 to 2000. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 106(19): 7888-7892. Please email me if you have suggested publications to add. - Susan PS - I apologize to those of you that received several copies of this message. Susan J. 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