David Breshears

Employment Highlights

• Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and Ecological Society of America.
• Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science): 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020.

Selected Publications

• McDowell, N, G Sapes, A Pivovaroff,  H Adams, CD Allen, WRL Anderegg, M Arend, DD Breshears, T Brodribb, B Choat, H Cochard, M De Cáceres, MG De Kauwe, C Grossiord, WM Hammond, H Hartmann, G Hoch, A Kahmen, T Klein, DS Mackay, M Mantova, J Martínez-Vilalta, BE Medlyn, M Mencuccini, A Nardini, RS Oliveira, A Sala, DT Tissue, JM Torres-Ruiz, A Trowbridge, AT Trugman, E Wiley, C Xu. 2022. Mechanisms of woody plant mortality under rising drought, CO2, and vapor pressure deficit. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 3: 294-308.
• Hammond, WM, A Park Williams, JT Abatzoglou, HD Adams, T Klein, R López Rodríguez, C Sáenz-Romero, H Hartmann, DD Breshears, CD Allen. 2022. Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests. Nature Communications 13 (1): 1-11.
• Breshears, DD, JB Fontaine, KX Ruthrof, JP Field, X Feng, JR Burger, DJ Law, J Kala, GESt J Hardy. 2021. Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves. Tansley Insight. New Phytologist 231: 32–39.
• Ruthrof, KX, DD Breshears, JB Fontaine, RH Froend, G Matusick, J Kala, BP Miller, PJ Mitchell, SK Wilson, M van Keulen, NJ Enright, DJ Law, T Wernberg, GEStJ Hardy. 2018. Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses. Scientific Reports 8(1), 13094.
• Adams, HD, GA Barron-Gafford, RL Minor, AA Gardea, L Patrick Bentley, DJ Law, DD Breshears, NG McDowell, TE Huxman. 2017. Temperature response surfaces for mortality risk of tree species with future drought. Environmental Research Letters 12:115014.
• Allen, CD, DD Breshears, NG McDowell. 2015. On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene. [Commissioned ESA Centennial Paper]. Ecosphere 6: art129 (1-55).