Under the ongoing intensification of climate change, the response mechanisms of forest ecosystems to drought are significantly influenced by stand‐age dynamics and management practices. There is an urgent need to integrate species‐specific functional traits and management intervention strategies into a resistance–resilience assessment framework to improve the understanding and predictive capacity of forest ecosystem responses...

To improve the environment and mitigate climate change, China has implemented ambitious projects for natural forest protection and expanded planted forests. However, increased climate variability has led to more frequent and severe droughts, exacerbating the decline of these forests. The drought risk of planted forests is rarely assessed by considering both resistance and resilience, and comparative analyses between natural an...