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Henry D. Adams is affiliated with Washington State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The work notably concentrates on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The scientist focuses on several key topics including Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire effects on ecosystems, Tree-ring climate responses, Forest ecology and management, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Forest Insect Ecology and Management.

Recent publications by Henry D. Adams include:

  • Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth's forests (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit (2022), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Foliar respiration is related to photosynthetic, growth and carbohydrate response to experimental drought and elevated temperature (2021), published in Plant Cell & Environment
  • Carbon starvation following a decade of experimental drought consumes old reserves in Pinus edulis (2023), published in New Phytologist
  • Mapping invasive alien species in grassland ecosystems using airborne imaging spectroscopy and remotely observable vegetation functional traits (2022), published in Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors with whom Henry D. Adams has collaborated include:

  • Amy M. Trowbridge
  • R. Alex Thompson
  • Nate G. McDowell
  • Alistair M. S. Smith
  • Raquel Partelli-Feltrin

Henry D. Adams has contributed multiple papers to the following publication venues:

  • New Phytologist
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Tree Physiology
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Temperature sensitivity of drought-induced tree mortality portends increased regional die-off under global-change-type drought

    Henry D. Adams;Maite Guardiola-Claramonte;Greg A. Barron-Gafford;Juan Camilo Villegas;Juan Camilo Villegas

  • 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

  • Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests

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  • Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality.

    Henrik Hartmann;Catarina F. Moura;Catarina F. Moura;Catarina F. Moura;William R. L. Anderegg;Nadine K. Ruehr

  • Ecohydrological consequences of drought- and infestation- triggered tree die-off: insights and hypotheses

    Henry D. Adams;Charles H. Luce;David D. Breshears;Craig D. Allen

  • Dead or dying? Quantifying the point of no return from hydraulic failure in drought-induced tree mortality.

    William M. Hammond;Kailiang Yu;Luke A. Wilson;Rodney E. Will

  • Nonstructural leaf carbohydrate dynamics of Pinus edulis during drought-induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism

    Henry D. Adams;Henry D. Adams;Matthew J. Germino;Matthew J. Germino;David D. Breshears;Greg A. Barron‐Gafford

  • 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

  • Standardized protocols and procedures can precisely and accurately quantify non-structural carbohydrates.

    Simon M. Landhausser;Pak S. Chow;L. Turin Dickman;Morgan E. Furze

  • The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off.

    David D. Breshears;David D. Breshears;Henry D. Adams;Derek Eamus;Nate G. McDowell

  • Warming combined with more extreme precipitation regimes modifies the water sources used by trees.

    Charlotte Grossiord;Sanna Sevanto;Todd E. Dawson;Henry D. Adams

  • Homeostatic maintenance of ponderosa pine gas exchange in response to stand density changes.

    Nate G. McDowell;Henry D. Adams;John D. Bailey;Marcey Hess

  • Vegetation synchronously leans upslope as climate warms

    David D. Breshears;Travis E. Huxman;Henry D. Adams;Chris B. Zou

  • Tree growth response to drought and temperature in a mountain landscape in northern Arizona, USA

    Henry D. Adams;Thomas E. Kolb

  • Tree defence and bark beetles in a drying world: carbon partitioning, functioning and modelling

    Jianbei Huang;Markus Kautz;Amy M. Trowbridge;Amy M. Trowbridge;Almuth Hammerbacher;Almuth Hammerbacher

  • Drought and resprouting plants

    Melanie J. B. Zeppel;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Henry D. Adams;Douglas I. Kelley

  • Climate-Induced Tree Mortality: Earth System Consequences

    Henry D. Adams;Alison K. Macalady;David D. Breshears;Craig D. Allen

  • Research frontiers in drought-induced tree mortality: crossing scales and disciplines.

    Henrik Hartmann;Henry D. Adams;William R. L. Anderegg;Steven Jansen

  • Identifying differences in carbohydrate dynamics of seedlings and mature trees to improve carbon allocation in models for trees and forests

    Henrik Hartmann;Henry D. Adams;William M. Hammond;Günter Hoch

  • Extreme climatic event-triggered overstorey vegetation loss increases understorey solar input regionally: primary and secondary ecological implications

    Patrick D. Royer;Neil S. Cobb;Michael J. Clifford;Cho Ying Huang

  • Responses of two semiarid conifer tree species to reduced precipitation and warming reveal new perspectives for stomatal regulation

    NúRIA Garcia-Forner;Henry D. Adams;Sanna Sevanto;Adam D. Collins

  • temperature in a mountain landscape in northern Arizona, USA

    Henry D. Adams;Thomas E. Kolb

Frequent Co-Authors

Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Travis E. Huxman
Travis E. Huxman University of California, Irvine
Chris B. Zou
Chris B. Zou Oklahoma State University
William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg University of Utah
Sanna Sevanto
Sanna Sevanto Los Alamos National Laboratory
Melanie J. B. Zeppel
Melanie J. B. Zeppel Macquarie University
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico
Greg A. Barron-Gafford
Greg A. Barron-Gafford University of Arizona
Rodney E. Will
Rodney E. Will Oklahoma State University

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