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Anna T. Trugman is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with an emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Plant Science. Their work covers a range of topics related to plant physiology, ecosystem dynamics, and climate interactions.

Trugman's research interests include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

The scientist has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, including:

  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology
  • Earth's Future
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Trugman are:

  • "Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?" (2021), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests" (2020), published in Science
  • "Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2" (2020), published in New Phytologist
  • "Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit" (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts" (2020), published in Nature Climate Change

Frequent collaborators include several researchers with whom Trugman has co-authored extensively:

  • William R. L. Anderegg
  • Danny Cullenward
  • Leander D. L. Anderegg
  • Grayson Badgley
  • Jeremy Freeman

Best Publications

  • Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

    William R.L. Anderegg;Anna T. Trugman;Grayson Badgley;Christa M. Anderson

  • Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities.

    Rosie A. Fisher;Charles D. Koven;William R. L. Anderegg;Bradley O. Christoffersen

  • Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought

    William R. L. Anderegg;Alexandra G. Konings;Anna T. Trugman;Kailiang Yu

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

    Tommaso Jucker;John Caspersen;Jérôme Chave;Cécile Antin;Cécile Antin

  • Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns.

    A. T. Trugman;M. Detto;M. K. Bartlett;D. Medvigy

  • Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts

    William R. L. Anderegg;Anna T. Trugman;Anna T. Trugman;Grayson Badgley;Alexandra G. Konings

  • Widespread drought-induced tree mortality at dry range edges indicates that climate stress exceeds species' compensating mechanisms.

    William R. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Kelly L. Kerr;Anna T. Trugman;Anna T. Trugman

  • Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict

    Anna T. Trugman;Leander D.L. Anderegg;Leander D.L. Anderegg;William R.L. Anderegg;Adrian J. Das

  • Systematic over-crediting in California's forest carbon offsets program.

    Grayson Badgley;Jeremy Freeman;Joseph J. Hamman;Barbara Haya

  • Soil Moisture Stress as a Major Driver of Carbon Cycle Uncertainty

    A. T. Trugman;D. Medvigy;J. S. Mankin;J. S. Mankin;W. R. L. Anderegg

  • Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content.

    Alexandra G. Konings;Sassan S. Saatchi;Christian Frankenberg;Michael Keller;Michael Keller

  • Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

    A. Park Williams;Richard Seager;Alison K. Macalady;Max Berkelhammer

  • The impact of rising CO2 and acclimation on the response of US forests to global warming.

    John S Sperry;Martin D Venturas;Henry N Todd;Anna T Trugman;Anna T Trugman

  • A theoretical and empirical assessment of stomatal optimization modeling

    Yujie Wang;John S. Sperry;William R. L. Anderegg;Martin D. Venturas

  • Plant functional traits and climate influence drought intensification and land-atmosphere feedbacks.

    William R L Anderegg;Anna T Trugman;David R Bowling;Guido Salvucci

  • Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States*

    A. Park Williams;Richard Seager;Max Berkelhammer;Alison K. Macalady

  • Trait velocities reveal that mortality has driven widespread coordinated shifts in forest hydraulic trait composition.

    Anna T. Trugman;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;John D. Shaw;William R. L. Anderegg

  • Understanding and predicting forest mortality in the western United States using long-term forest inventory data and modeled hydraulic damage

    Martin D. Venturas;Henry N. Todd;Anna T. Trugman;William R. L. Anderegg

  • Pervasive decreases in living vegetation carbon turnover time across forest climate zones.

    Kailiang Yu;William K Smith;Anna T Trugman;Anna T Trugman;Richard Condit

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg University of Utah
David Medvigy
David Medvigy University of Notre Dame
Leander D. L. Anderegg
Leander D. L. Anderegg University of California, Santa Barbara
John S. Sperry
John S. Sperry University of Utah
Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala Princeton University
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David R. Bowling
David R. Bowling University of Utah
Justin S. Mankin
Justin S. Mankin Dartmouth College
William K. Smith
William K. Smith Wake Forest University
Ying Fan
Ying Fan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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