“…Recent extreme drought in North Africa (Touchan et al, 2008) is linked to severe mortality of Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) from Morocco to Algeria (El Abidine, 2003;Bentouati, 2008 1982/1983 and 1997/1998 in the tropical moist forests of both Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo (Leighton and Wirawan, 1986;Woods, 1989;Nakagawa et al, 2000;van Nieuwstadt and Sheil, 2005). Severe droughts are also associated with increased mortality among many tree species from tropical dry forests in northwest and southwest India (Khan et al, 1994), Abies koreana in South Korea (Lim et al, 2008), Juniperus procera from Saudia Arabia (Fisher, 1997), and pine and fir species in central Turkey (Semerci et al, 2008). Recent droughts have triggered mortality of Pinus tabulaeformia across 0.5 million ha in east-central China (Wang et al, 2007), and across extensive areas of Pinus yunnanensis in southwest China (Li, 2003).…”