Two pot experiments and one field experiment were conducted on sugarcane to assess the effects of treatments expected to change total carbon assimilation on the partitioning of assimilate. In the first experiment pots of cultivars CP and N14 were arranged to simulate normal field spacing. At 5 months, plants were partially defoliated or left intact. In the subsequent four months, defoliation re...

Hurricanes are known to affect plants and animals their interactions. Usually, hurricanes defoliate trees reduce the abundance density of arthropods. The parasitic arthropod Holopothrips tabebuia was first reported in Puerto Rico 2006. By 2007, it had established populations on two hosts: Tabebuia aurea heterophylla. In September 2017, Hurricane María defoliated both hosts. This study aimed det...

Spring frosts can defoliate trees, reduce canopy carbon assimilation, and alter interspecific competition dynamics. These events may become more common with climate change, but our understanding of the associated ecological impacts is limited by stochastic nature their occurrences. In 2020, a late spring frost defoliated oak ( Quercus spp.), not co-occurring maples Acer spp.) across temperate b...

In 2010–2018, Northern Patagonia featured the longest severe drought of last millennium. This extreme dry spell triggered widespread growth decline and forest dieback. Nonetheless, roles played by two major mechanisms driving dieback, hydraulic failure carbon starvation, are still not clear understudied in this seasonally region. Here, for 1800–2017 period, we apply a retrospective analysis rad...