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Leander D. L. Anderegg is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research spans various fields focused on environmental and ecological sciences, with a strong emphasis on plant and ecosystem responses to environmental changes.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of particular relevance to their work are Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The core topics addressed in their publications cover Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, Plant and animal studies, Forest ecology and management, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent co-authors of Leander D. L. Anderegg include Anna T. Trugman, Todd E. Dawson, William R. L. Anderegg, Indra Boving, and John D. Shaw.

The scientist's work has appeared regularly in several publication venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • New Phytologist
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Global Change Biology
  • Functional Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Leander D. L. Anderegg include:

  • "Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict?" (2021) published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Why can't we predict traits from the environment?" (2022) published in New Phytologist
  • "Continental-scale tree-ring-based projection of Douglas-fir growth: Testing the limits of space-for-time substitution" (2020) published in Global Change Biology
  • "Evolutionary relationships between drought-related traits and climate shape large hydraulic safety margins in western North American oaks" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

    William R. L. Anderegg;William R. L. Anderegg;Jeffrey M. Kane;Leander D. L. Anderegg

  • 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

  • The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off

    William R. L. Anderegg;Joseph A. Berry;Duncan D. Smith;John S. Sperry

  • Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk

    William R. L. Anderegg;William R. L. Anderegg;Lenka Plavcová;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Uwe G. Hacke

  • Terrestrial gross primary production: Using NIRV to scale from site to globe

    Grayson Badgley;Grayson Badgley;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Joseph A. Berry;Christopher B. Field

  • Within-species patterns challenge our understanding of the leaf economics spectrum.

    Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Logan T. Berner;Logan T. Berner;Grayson Badgley;Meera L. Sethi

  • Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons.

    William R. L. Anderegg;John T. Abatzoglou;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leonard Bielory;Leonard Bielory

  • 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

  • Not All Droughts Are Created Equal: Translating Meteorological Drought Into Woody Plant Mortality

    Leander D. L. Anderegg;William R. L. Anderegg;William R. L. Anderegg;Joseph A. Berry

  • Drought stress limits the geographic ranges of two tree species via different physiological mechanisms.

    Leander D. L. Anderegg;Janneke HilleRisLambers

  • Drought characteristics' role in widespread aspen forest mortality across Colorado, USA.

    Leander D. L. Anderegg;William R. L. Anderegg;William R. L. Anderegg;John Abatzoglou;Alexandra M. Hausladen

  • Hydraulic and carbohydrate changes in experimental drought- induced mortality of saplings in two conifer species

    William R.L. Anderegg;William R.L. Anderegg;Leander D.L. Anderegg

  • Why can't we predict traits from the environment?

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  • Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make “Functional Types” more functional

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  • Continental‐scale tree‐ring‐based projection of Douglas‐fir growth: Testing the limits of space‐for‐time substitution

    Stefan Klesse;Robert Justin DeRose;Robert Justin DeRose;Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Bryan A. Black

  • Loss of whole-tree hydraulic conductance during severe drought and multi-year forest die-off

    William R. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Joseph A. Berry;Christopher B. Field

  • Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees

    Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Xingwen Loy;Ian P. Markham;Christina M. Elmer

  • 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

  • Evolutionary relationships between drought-related traits and climate shape large hydraulic safety margins in western North American oaks.

    Robert P. Skelton;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Jessica Diaz;Matthew M. Kling

  • Effects of Widespread Drought-Induced Aspen Mortality on Understory Plants

    William R. L. Anderegg;William R. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Clare Sherman;Daniel S. Karp

  • Dry and hot: the hydraulic consequences of a climate change-type drought for Amazonian trees

    Clarissa G. Fontes;Todd E. Dawson;Kolby Jardine;Kolby Jardine;Nate McDowell

  • Climate and plant trait strategies determine tree carbon allocation to leaves and mediate future forest productivity

    Anna T. Trugman;Anna T. Trugman;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Brett T. Wolfe;Benjamin Birami

  • L-band vegetation optical depth as an indicator of plant water potential in a temperate deciduous forest stand

    Nataniel M. Holtzman;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Leander D. L. Anderegg;Simon Kraatz;Alex Mavrovic

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. L. Anderegg
William R. L. Anderegg University of Utah
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Todd E. Dawson
Todd E. Dawson University of California, Berkeley
Anna T. Trugman
Anna T. Trugman University of California, Santa Barbara
Janneke HilleRisLambers
Janneke HilleRisLambers University of Washington
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Sally E. Thompson
Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia
Margaret M. Mayfield
Margaret M. Mayfield University of Queensland
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
David D. Ackerly
David D. Ackerly University of California, Berkeley

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