{"id":6404,"date":"2025-11-17T17:32:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6404"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:10:28","slug":"no-increased-drought-related-mortality-after-thinning-a-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2025\/11\/17\/no-increased-drought-related-mortality-after-thinning-a-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"No increased drought-related mortality after thinning: a meta-analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/25-11-21_Willing-J-e1763986189622.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6473 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/25-11-21_Willing-J-e1763986189622-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/25-11-21_Willing-J-e1763986189622-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/11\/25-11-21_Willing-J-e1763986189622.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a>Key message<\/strong><br \/>\nOur meta-analysis showed that thinning of forest stands did not increase mortality following extreme drought events. There was also no higher mortality among dominant trees that are typically more exposed to irradiance after thinning. We show that many thinning experiments lack sufficient documentation of mortality and climatic variation and urge for more comprehensive reporting to facilitate systematic reviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nDrought resistance; Climate adaptation; Silvicultural options; Dominant trees; Risk-ratio meta-analysis<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-025-01278-7'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nWillig, J., Schwarz, J., Comeau, P.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0No increased drought-related mortality after thinning: a meta-analysis.\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a082, 6 (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01278-7\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01278-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn M. Lhotka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key message Our meta-analysis showed that thinning of forest stands did not increase mortality following extreme drought events. There was also no higher mortality among dominant trees that are typically more exposed to irradiance after thinning. We show that many thinning experiments lack sufficient documentation of mortality and climatic variation and urge for more comprehensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,109,16,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-open-access","category-review-paper","category-special-issuetopical-collection","cat-14-id","cat-109-id","cat-16-id","cat-108-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6404"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6475,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6404\/revisions\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}