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Responses of forest trees to single and multiple environmental stresses from seedlings to mature plants: Past stress history, stress interactions, tolerance and acclimation

Ülo Niinemets
- 15 Oct 2010 - 
- Vol. 260, Iss: 10, pp 1623-1639
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In this article, a review of tree physiological responses to key environmental stress factors and their combinations are analyzed from seedlings to mature trees, concluding that combined stresses can influence survival of large trees even more than chronic exposure to a single predictable stress such as drought.
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This article is published in Forest Ecology and Management.The article was published on 2010-10-15 and is currently open access. It has received 586 citations till now.

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Effect of pruning, fertilization and pesticide injection on crown dieback in urban trees in Colombia: Analysis of factors involved

TL;DR: The results suggest that the deterioration is a dynamic phenomenon associated with environmental stresses caused mainly by the climatic variability and the species seems to be the most determinant factor for the affectation.
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Leaf habit determines the hydraulic and resource-use strategies in tree saplings from the Sonoran Desert.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used one-year-old saplings from three evergreen and four deciduous Sonoran Desert tree species, evaluated their hydraulic and gas exchange traits under three experimental irrigation conditions: high, intermediate, and low water availability.
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The Contrasting Effects of Local Environmental Conditions on Tree Growth between Populations at Different Latitudes

Xiaomao Wang, +1 more
- 09 Mar 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this paper , the effect of environmental conditions on the growth of two common maple species (Acer rubrum L. and A. saccharum Marshall) at two different latitudes within their northern distributional ranges was investigated.
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Effect of strip clear-cutting on the natural regeneration of Pinus tabuliformis plantations in northeastern China

TL;DR: In this article , the effect of strip clearcutting on the natural regeneration performance of mature Pinus tabuliformis plantations in the three locations in western part of the Liaoning Province was analyzed.
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Climate change 2007: the physical science basis

TL;DR: The first volume of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report as mentioned in this paper was published in 2007 and covers several topics including the extensive range of observations now available for the atmosphere and surface, changes in sea level, assesses the paleoclimatic perspective, climate change causes both natural and anthropogenic, and climate models for projections of global climate.
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Chlorophyll fluorescence—a practical guide

TL;DR: An introduction for the novice into the methodology and applications of chlorophyll fluorescence is provided and a selection of examples are used to illustrate the types of information that fluorescence can provide.
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