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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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Stem-growth periodicity of trees in a tropical wet forest of costa rica'

TL;DR: In this paper, Radial dendrometers were installed on 27 trees comprising 12 species, and hourly readings were automatically recorded for 20 and 24 mo, respectively, in a tropical wet forest of eastern-lowland Costa Rica.
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Atmospheric CO2 and soil water availability: consequences for tree-insect interactions

TL;DR: CO2 effects on forest trees will be mediated by the availability of water and that the direction and magnitude of responses will depend on the tree species involved, which will, in turn, affect patterns of host use by herbivorous insects.
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Size-mediated foliar response to ozone in black cherry trees.

TL;DR: Local ozone concentration and visible foliar injury were measured over the 1994 growing season on open-grown black cherry trees of varying size (age) within forest stands and adjacent openings at a site in north-central Pennsylvania to determine the correlation between visible and physiological injury and ozone exposure.
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Photosynthetic acclimation of young sweet orange trees to elevated growth CO2 and temperature

TL;DR: In this article, two-year old trees of Ambersweet oranges were grown for twenty-nine months under two daytime [CO2] of 360 (ambient) and 720 (elevated) μmol mol−1, and at two temperatures of 1.5 and 6.0 °C above ambient temperature.
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Sensitivity of photosynthetic electron transport to photoinhibition in a temperate deciduous forest canopy: Photosystem II center openness, non-radiative energy dissipation and excess irradiance under field conditions.

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