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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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Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange by young and old ponderosa pine ecosystems during a dry summer

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Why do species of woody seedlings change rank in relative growth rate between low and high irradiance

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Issues in scaling tree size and age responses to ozone: a review

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Effects of light availability and sapling size on the growth, biomass allocation, and crown morphology of understory sugar maple, yellow birch, and beech.

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