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Boving, I., Allen, J., Brodrick, P. G., Chadwick, K. D., Trugman, A., & Anderegg, L. D. L. (2025). The Unstable Relationship Between Drought Status and Leaf Water Content Complicates the Remote Sensing of Tree Drought Stress. Global Change Biology, 31(4), e70188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70188
Kerr, K. L., Anderegg, L. D. L., Trugman, A. T., & Anderegg, W. R. L. (2025). Betting on rains that do not come: Monsoon failure and leaf area overshoot relate to increased tree mortality from drought. Functional Ecology, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70054
Trugman, A. T., & Anderegg, L. D. L. (2025). Source vs sink limitations on tree growth: From physiological mechanisms to evolutionary constraints and terrestrial carbon cycle implications. New Phytologist, 245(3), 966–981. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20294
Chadwick, K. D., Davis, F., Miner, K. R., Pavlick, R., Reynolds, M., Townsend, P. A., Brodrick, P. G., Ade, C., Allen, J., Anderegg, L., Angel, Y., Boving, I., Byrd, K. B., Campbell, P., Carberry, L., Cavanaugh, K. C., Cavanaugh, K. C., Easterday, K., Eckert, R., … Schimel, D. (2025). Unlocking ecological insights from sub-seasonal visible-to-shortwave infrared imaging spectroscopy: The SHIFT campaign. Ecosphere, 16(3), e70194. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70194
Burnett, M. W., French, R., Jones, B., Fischer, A., Holland, A., Roybal, I., White, T., Steibl, S., Anderegg, L. D. L., Young, H., Holmes, N. D., & Wegmann, A. (2024). Satellite imagery reveals widespread coconut plantations on Pacific atolls. Environmental Research Letters, 19(12), 124095. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8c66
Knighton, J., Sanchez-Martinez, P., & Anderegg, L. (2024). A global dataset of tree hydraulic and structural traits imputed from phylogenetic relationships. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1336. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04254-4
Quetin, G. R., Anderegg, L. D. L., Boving, I., & Trugman, A. T. (2024). A moving target: Trade-offs between maximizing carbon and minimizing hydraulic stress for plants in a changing climate. New Phytologist, 244(5), 1788–1800. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20127
Posch, B. C., Bush, S. E., Koepke, D. F., Schuessler, A., Anderegg, L. L. D., Aparecido, L. M. T., Blonder, B. W., Guo, J. S., Kerr, K. L., Moran, M. E., Cooper, H. F., Doughty, C. E., Gehring, C. A., Whitham, T. G., Allan, G. J., & Hultine, K. R. (2024). Intensive leaf cooling promotes tree survival during a record heatwave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(43), e2408583121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408583121
Anderegg, L. D. L. (2023). Why can’t we predict traits from the environment? New Phytologist, 237(6), 1998–2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18586
A sample of publications that illustrate the interests of the Landscape Physiology Lab:
Pellegrini, A. F. A., Anderegg, L., Pinto-Ledezma, J. N., Cavender-Bares, J., Hobbie, S. E., & Reich, P. B. (2023). Consistent physiological, ecological and evolutionary effects of fire regime on conservative leaf economics strategies in plant communities. Ecology Letters, 26(4), 597–608. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14182
Quetin GR, Anderegg LDL, Konings AG, Trugman AT. 2022. Quantifying the global power needed for sap ascent in plants. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022JG006922
Kerr KL, Anderegg LDL, Zenes N, Anderegg WRL. 2022. Quantifying within-species trait variation in space and time reveals limits to trait-mediated drought response. Functional Ecology (published online) http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14112 Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.v6wwpzgzn
Anderegg LDL, Griffith DM, Cavender-Bares J, Riley WJ, Berry JA, Dawson TE, Still CJ. 2022. Representing plant diversity in land models: An evolutionary approach to make “Functional Types” more functional. Global Change Biology 28: 2541–2554. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16040
Anderegg LDL, Loy X, Markham IP, Elmer CM, Hovenden MJ, Hillerislambers J, Mayfield MM. 2021. Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees. New Phytologist 15: 343. Data: https://doi.org/10.6078/D1QQ5X Code: https://github.com/leanderegg/EucTraits
Trugman AT*, Anderegg LDL*, Anderegg WRL, Das AJ, Stephenson NL. 2021. Why is Tree Drought Mortality so Hard to Predict? Trends in Ecology & Evolution: S0169534721000355. * these authors contributed equally
Trugman AT, Anderegg LD, Shaw JD, Anderegg WR (2020) Trait velocities reveal that mortality has drivenwidespread coordinated shifts in foresthydraulic trait composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 1–7.
Badgley GM*, Anderegg LDL*, Field CB, Berry JA. (2019) An ecologically-based approach to terrestrial primary productivity. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14729
Open Access Link: rdcu.be/bTYVh
* these authors contributed equally
Anderegg LDL & HilleRisLamber J. (2019) Local range boundaries versus large-scale tradeoffs: Climatic and competitive constraints on tree growth. Ecology Letters. 22:787-796.
Open Access Link: https://rdcu.be/bvnpz
Data and code: https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.k5k9074
Trugman A, Anderegg LDL, Wolfe BT, Birmi B, Ruehr NK, Detto M, Bartlett MK, Anderegg WRL. (2019) Climate and plant trait strategies determine tree carbon allocation to leaves and mediate future forest productivity. Global Change Biology.
Open Access Link: https://rdcu.be/bGXDg
Brodrick P, Anderegg LDL, Asner GA. (2019) Forest drought resistance at large geographic scales. Geophysical Research Letters.
Open Access Link: doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081108
Data and code (including CWC layers for California): https://github.com/pgbrodrick/forest_drought_resistance.git
Anderegg LDL, Berner L, Badgley G, Sethi ML, Law BE, HilleRisLambers J. (2018) Within-species patterns challenge our understanding of the Leaf Economics Spectrum. Ecology Letters. 21:734-744 http://doi: 10.1111/ele.12945.
Open Access Link: https://rdcu.be/bzFNm
Data and Code: https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.c1dn34b/1