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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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Inherent Variation in Growth Rate Between Higher Plants: A Search for Physiological Causes and Ecological Consequences

Hans Lambers, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1992 - 
TL;DR: It is likely that there are trade-offs between growth potential and performance under adverse conditions, however, the current ecophysiological information explaining variation in RGR is too limited to support this contention quantitatively.
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Drought‐inhibition of Photosynthesis in C3 Plants: Stomatal and Non‐stomatal Limitations Revisited

Jaume Flexas, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2002 - 
TL;DR: The analysis suggests that stomatal closure is the earliest response to drought and the dominant limitation to photosynthesis at mild to moderate drought, however, in parallel, progressive down-regulation or inhibition of metabolic processes leads to decreased RuBP content, which becomes the dominant limit at severe drought, and thereby inhibits photosynthetic CO2 assimilation.
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Priming: Getting Ready for Battle

Uwe Conrath, +15 more
- 01 Oct 2006 - 
TL;DR: The current knowledge of priming in various induced-resistance phenomena in plants is summarized.
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Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

Fernando Valladares, +1 more
- 31 Oct 2008 - 
TL;DR: Understanding differential competitive potentials among co-occurring species mediated by shade tolerance is critical to predict ecosystem responses to global change drivers such as elevated CO2, climate change and the spread of invasive species.
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Hydraulic Limits to Tree Height and Tree Growth

Michael G. Ryan, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1997 - 
TL;DR: What determines the height to which a tree will grow in a particular region and climate is examined and mechanisms for growth including respiration hypothesis, nutrient limitation hypothesis, maturation hypothesis and the hydraulic limitation hypothesis are examined.
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