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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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Chapter 12 - Long-term climate change: Projections, commitments and irreversibility

Matthew Collins, +13 more
TL;DR: The authors assesses long-term projections of climate change for the end of the 21st century and beyond, where the forced signal depends on the scenario and is typically larger than the internal variability of the climate system.
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The interaction of plant biotic and abiotic stresses: from genes to the field

Nicky J. Atkinson, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2012 - 
TL;DR: This review aims to characterize the interaction between biotic and abiotic stress responses at a molecular level, focusing on regulatory mechanisms important to both pathways.
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Potential for evolutionary responses to climate change – evidence from tree populations

Florian Alberto, +13 more
- 01 Jun 2013 - 
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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The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off

William R. L. Anderegg, +5 more
- 03 Jan 2012 - 
TL;DR: A direct and in situ study of the mechanisms underlying recent widespread and climate-induced trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) forest mortality in western North America and finds substantial evidence of hydraulic failure of roots and branches linked to landscape patterns of canopy and root mortality in this species.
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Drought-tolerance of wheat improved by rhizosphere bacteria from harsh environments: enhanced biomass production and reduced emissions of stress volatiles.

Salme Timmusk, +10 more
- 08 May 2014 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, a feasible alternative strategy by application of rhizospheric bacteria coevolved with plant roots in harsh environments over millions of years, and harboring adaptive traits improving plant fitness under biotic and abiotic stresses.
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Stomatal deregulation in Plasmopara viticola-infected grapevine leaves.

Mathilde Allègre, +6 more
- 01 Mar 2007 - 
TL;DR: Data indicate that the oomycete deregulates guard cell functioning, causing significant water losses in grapevine, and this effect could be attributed to a nonsystemic compound, produced by the omycete or by the infected plant, which inhibits stomatal closure or induces stomatic opening; or a reduction of the back-pressure exerted by surrounding epidermal cells.
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Impacts of tree height on leaf hydraulic architecture and stomatal control in Douglas-fir

David R. Woodruff, +4 more
- 01 May 2007 - 
TL;DR: The observed trends in g(s) and K(leaf) in response to changes in Psi(l) along a height gradient suggest that the foliage at the tops of tall trees is capable of maintaining stomatal conductance at more negative PSI(l), which may allow taller trees to continue to photosynthesize during periods of greater water stress.
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Root starch storage and allocation patterns in seeder and resprouter seedlings of two Cape Erica (Ericaceae) species

Dolors Verdaguer, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2002 - 
TL;DR: Pronounced swelling of the upper root region suggests ontogenetic development of a lignotuber in the resprouter forms of the two Erica species, and the distinct allocation of starch in roots seems to be genetically determined.
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The upward shift in altitude of pine mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. austriacum) in Switzerland—the result of climate warming?

Matthias Dobbertin, +5 more
- 05 May 2005 - 
TL;DR: Pine mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. austriacum) is common in natural Scots pine forests in the alpine Rhone Valley, Switzerland, and this semi-parasite increases the drought stress on trees and may contribute to the observed pine decline in the region.
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Water limitations to carbon exchange in old-growth and young ponderosa pine stands.

J. Irvine, +3 more
- 01 Feb 2002 - 
TL;DR: No pronounced seasonal pattern in daytime NEE was observed at either site between April and September, but soil respiration at the Y site showed a strong seasonal correlation with soil temperature with no discernible constraints imposed by declining soil water, whereas there was no evidence of seasonal soil water limitations on either process at the O site.
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