Repeated extreme heatwaves result in higher leaf thermal tolerances and greater safety margins

CW Ahrens, A Challis, M Byrne, A Leigh… - New …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The frequency and severity of heatwave events are increasing, exposing species to
conditions beyond their physiological limits. Species respond to heatwaves in different ways …

[HTML][HTML] Map** functional diversity of canopy physiological traits using UAS imaging spectroscopy

E Cimoli, A Lucieer, Z Malenovský, W Woodgate… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Plant functional diversity (FD) is a component of biodiversity linking plant functional traits to
ecosystem processes (eg, photosynthesis) and services (eg, gross primary production) …

Biological traits approaches in benthic marine ecology: Dead ends and new paths

S de Juan, J Bremner, J Hewitt, A Törnroos… - Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biological traits analysis (BTA) links community structure to both ecological functions and
response to environmental drivers through species' attributes. In consequence, it has …

Local hydrological gradients structure high intraspecific variability in plant hydraulic traits in two dominant central Amazonian tree species

MN Garcia, J Hu, TF Domingues… - Journal of …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Addressing the intraspecific variability of functional traits helps understand how climate
change might influence the distribution of organismal traits across environments, but this is …

Aridity and cold temperatures drive divergent adjustments of European beech xylem anatomy, hydraulics and leaf physiological traits

E Vicente, M Didion-Gency, L Morcillo, X Morin… - Tree …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Understanding plant trait coordination and variance across climatic gradients is critical for
assessing forests' adaptive potential to climate change. We measured 11 hydraulic …

Testing the limits of plant drought stress and subsequent recovery in four provenances of a widely distributed subtropical tree species

H Duan, V Resco de Dios, D Wang… - Plant, Cell & …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Drought‐induced tree mortality may increase with ongoing climate change. Unraveling the
links between stem hydraulics and mortality thresholds, and the effects of intraspecific …

Germination temperature sensitivity differs between co‐occurring tree species and climate origins resulting in contrasting vulnerability to global warming

JC Filipe, CC Ahrens, M Byrne… - Plant‐Environment …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is shifting temperatures from historical patterns, globally impacting forest
composition and resilience. Seed germination is temperature‐sensitive, making the …

[HTML][HTML] Leaf carbon and nitrogen stoichiometric variation along environmental gradients

H Xu, H Wang, IC Prentice, SP Harrison - Biogeosciences, 2023‏ - bg.copernicus.org
Leaf stoichiometric traits are central to ecosystem function and biogeochemical cycling, yet
no accepted theory predicts their variation along environmental gradients. Using data in the …

[PDF][PDF] The ecology of plant interactions: A giant with feet of clay

C Cabal, R Martinez-Garcia, F Valladares - Preprint, 2020‏ - preprints.org
Ecologists use the net biotic interactions among plants as a major factor to predict other
ecosystem features, such as species diversity, community structure, or plant atmospheric …

Contributions of phenotypic integration, plasticity and genetic adaptation to adaptive capacity relating to drought in Banksia marginata (Proteaceae)

OO Oyanoghafo, AD Miller, M Toomey… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
The frequency and intensity of drought events are predicted to increase because of climate
change, threatening biodiversity and terrestrial ecosystems in many parts of the world …