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Overview

Anna Sala is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States and conducts research primarily in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology. The main topics of their research focus on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, Forest ecology and management, Fire effects on ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant responses to elevated CO2, and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions.

Anna Sala has contributed extensively to several scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • New Phytologist
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Global Change Biology
  • BioScience
  • Ecological Applications

Their recent papers highlight key areas of research in plant physiology, carbon storage, and drought impacts, including these works:

  • "Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit" (2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • "Storage of carbon reserves in spruce trees is prioritized over growth in the face of carbon limitation" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Relative water content consistently predicts drought mortality risk in seedling populations with different morphology, physiology and times to death" (2021, Plant Cell & Environment)
  • "Global variation in nonstructural carbohydrate stores in response to climate" (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • "Plant carbohydrate storage: intra- and inter-specific trade-offs reveal a major life history trait" (2022, New Phytologist)

Collaborations form an important part of Anna Sala's research, with frequent coauthors including Gerard Sapes, Ylva Lekberg, Sharon M. Hood, Amy M. Trowbridge, and Christopher R. Keyes. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers working closely on related environmental and biological topics.

Best Publications

  • A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality

    Henry D. Adams;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;Melanie J.B. Zeppel;William R.L. Anderegg;Henrik Hartmann

  • Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low‐growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

    Francisco Lloret;Eric G. Keeling;Anna Sala

  • Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

    William R.L. Anderegg;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rosie A. Fisher;Craig D. Allen

  • Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine?

    Anna Sala;David R. Woodruff;Frederick C. Meinzer

  • Nonstructural carbon in woody plants.

    Michael C. Dietze;Anna Sala;Mariah S. Carbone;Claudia I. Czimczik

  • Physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality are far from being resolved.

    Anna Sala;Frida Piper;Günter Hoch

  • Dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in terrestrial plants: a global synthesis

    Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Anna Sala;Dolores Asensio;Lucía Galiano

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

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  • Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration.

    Kimberley T Davis;Solomon Z Dobrowski;Philip E Higuera;Zachary A Holden

  • Water Use by Tamarix Ramosissima and Associated Phreatophytes in a Mojave Desert Floodplain

    Anna Sala;Stanley D. Smith;Dale A. Devitt

  • PLASTICITY AND GENETIC DIVERSITY MAY ALLOW SALTCEDAR TO INVADE COLD CLIMATES IN NORTH AMERICA

    Jason P. Sexton;John K. McKay;Anna Sala

  • Invasive capacity of Tamarix ramosissima in a Mojave Desert floodplain: The role of drought

    James R. Cleverly;Stanley D. Smith;Anna Sala;Dale A. Devitt

  • Does carbon storage limit tree growth

    Sara Palacio;Günter Hoch;Anna Sala;Christian Körner

  • Mechanism of water‐stress induced cavitation in conifers: bordered pit structure and function support the hypothesis of seal capillary‐seeding

    Sylvain Delzon;Sylvain Delzon;Cyril Douthe;Anna Sala;Herve Cochard

  • Are old forests underestimated as global carbon sinks

    Eileen V. Carey;Anna Sala;Robert Keane;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Water relations of riparian plants from warm desert regions

    Stanley D. Smith;Dale A. Devitt;Dale A. Devitt;Anna Sala;James R. Cleverly

  • Non-structural carbohydrates in woody plants compared among laboratories.

    Audrey G. Quentin;Audrey G. Quentin;Elizabeth A. Pinkard;Michael G. Ryan;Michael G. Ryan;David T. Tissue

  • The hydraulic architecture of Pinaceae – a review

    Jordi Martínez-Vilalta;Anna Sala;Josep Piñol

  • Simulations of canopy net photosynthesis and transpiration in Quercus ilex L. under the influence of seasonal drought

    Anna Sala;John Tenhunen

  • Height-related growth declines in ponderosa pine are not due to carbon limitation.

    Anna Sala;Günter Hoch

  • Perpetuating old ponderosa pine

    T.E. Kolb;J.K. Agee;P.Z. Fulé;N.G. McDowell

  • Local adaptation across a climatic gradient despite small effective population size in the rare sapphire rockcress.

    John K. McKay;John G. Bishop;Jing-Zhong Lin;James H. Richards

  • FREQUENT FIRE ALTERS NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS IN PONDEROSA PINE STANDS OF THE INLAND NORTHWEST

    Thomas H. DeLuca;Anna Sala

  • Greater focus on water pools may improve our ability to understand and anticipate drought-induced mortality in plants

    Jordi Martinez‐Vilalta;William R. L. Anderegg;Gerard Sapes;Anna Sala

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Jordi Martínez-Vilalta Autonomous University of Barcelona
William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg University of Utah
Günter Hoch
Günter Hoch University of Basel
Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University
Francisco Lloret
Francisco Lloret Autonomous University of Barcelona
John Tenhunen
John Tenhunen University of Bayreuth
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ragan M. Callaway
Ragan M. Callaway University of Montana
Danielle A. Way
Danielle A. Way University of Western Ontario
Thomas H. DeLuca
Thomas H. DeLuca Oregon State University

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