Katrin Heer

TL;DR: This dataset of individual tree-core characteristics including ring-width series and whole-core wood density was collected for seven ecologically and economically important European tree species, covering most of the geographical and climatic range occupied by the selected species.

TL;DR: Understanding the significance of epigenetics for plant ecology requires increased transfer of knowledge and methods from model species research to genomes of evolutionarily divergent species, and examination of responses to complex natural environments at a more mechanistic level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define forest ecology as studies on the abiotic and biotic components of forest ecosystems and their interactions on varying spatial and temporal scales, and conclude that an improved mechanistic understanding of forests is essential for the further development of ecosystem-oriented multifunctional forest management in the face of accelerating global change.

TL;DR: Dendroecological and genetic data of surviving silver fir trees are analysed to explore the genetic basis of their response to the iconic stress episode of the 1970s and 1980s that led to large‐scale forest dieback in Central Europe and has been attributed to air pollution.

TL;DR: Recent progress in the understanding of the molecular bases of drought and temperature stresses in trees is reviewed, with a focus on functional, transcriptomic, epigenetic, and population genomic studies.