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Acclimation and adaptive responses of woody plants to environmental stresses
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The predominant emphasis on harmful effects of environmental stresses on growth of woody plants has obscured some very beneficial effects of such stresses, including physiological adjustment that protects plants from the growth inhibition and/or injury that follow when environmental stresses are abruptly imposed.Abstract:
The predominant emphasis on harmful effects of environmental stresses on growth of woody plants has obscured some very beneficial effects of such stresses. Slowly increasing stresses may induce physiological adjustment that protects plants from the growth inhibition and/or injury that follow when environmental stresses are abruptly imposed. In addition, short exposures of woody plants to extreme environmental conditions at critical times in their development often improve growth. Furthermore, maintaining harvested seedlings and plant products at very low temperatures extends their longevity. Drought tolerance: Seedlings previously exposed to water stress often undergo less inhibition of growth and other processes following transplanting than do seedlings not previously exposed to such stress. Controlled wetting and drying cycles often promote early budset, dormancy, and drought tolerance. In many species increased drought tolerance following such cycles is associated with osmotic adjustment that ...read more
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Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?
Nate G. McDowell,William T. Pockman,Craig D. Allen,David D. Breshears,Neil S. Cobb,Thomas Kolb,Jennifer A. Plaut,John S. Sperry,Adam G. West,Adam G. West,David G. Williams,Enrico A. Yepez +11 more
TL;DR: A hydraulically based theory considering carbon balance and insect resistance that allowed development and examination of hypotheses regarding survival and mortality was developed, and incorporating this hydraulic framework may be effective for modeling plant survival andortality under future climate conditions.
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Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality
TL;DR: Events of regional-scale vegetation mortality appear to be increasing in a variety of biomes throughout the Earth and are frequently associated with increased temperatures, droughts, and often with outbreaks of biotic agents such as insects and pathogens.
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The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality
Nate G. McDowell,David J. Beerling,David D. Breshears,Rosie A. Fisher,Kenneth F. Raffa,Mark Stitt +5 more
TL;DR: By integrating new evidence from a wide range of fields, it is concluded that hydraulic function and carbohydrate and defense metabolism have numerous potential failure points, and that these processes are strongly interdependent, both with each other and with destructive pathogen and insect populations.
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Triggers of tree mortality under drought
Brendan Choat,Timothy J. Brodribb,Craig R. Brodersen,Remko A. Duursma,Rosana López,Rosana López,Belinda E. Medlyn +6 more
TL;DR: This work focuses on the current understanding of tree hydraulic performance under drought, the identification of physiological thresholds that precipitate mortality and the mechanisms of recovery after drought, and the potential application of hydraulic thresholds to process-based models that predict mortality.
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Potential for evolutionary responses to climate change – evidence from tree populations
Florian Alberto,Florian Alberto,Florian Alberto,Sally N. Aitken,Ricardo Alía,Santiago C. González-Martínez,Heikki Hänninen,Antoine Kremer,Antoine Kremer,François Lefèvre,Thomas Lenormand,Sam Yeaman,Ross W. Whetten,Outi Savolainen +13 more
TL;DR: Responding to climate change will likely require that the quantitative traits of populations again match their environments, and it is found that genetic differentiation between populations and clinal variation along environmental gradients were very common.
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