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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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Climate change hotspots in the CMIP5 global climate model ensemble

TL;DR: The results identify areas of the Amazon, the Sahel and tropical West Africa, Indonesia, and the Tibetan Plateau as persistent regional climate change hotspots throughout the 21st century of the RCP8.5 and RCP4.5 forcing pathways.
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Understanding the roles of nonstructural carbohydrates in forest trees – from what we can measure to what we want to know

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Climate Relicts: Past, Present, Future

TL;DR: The empirical evidence is synthesized considering relict habitats, abiotic and biotic constraints on population dynamics, mechanisms promoting population persistence, and uncertainties concerning their future prospects to identify three major types of climate relicts: those constrained primarily by climate-driven abiotic factors, those restricted to areas that are inaccessible to antagonistic species for climatic reasons, and those requiring a host or mutualistic species that is itself limited by climate.
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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

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