The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to
quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate …

In this special section of Biogeochemistry, we present results from asnow manipulation
experiment in the northernhardwood forest ecosystem at the Hubbard BrookExperimental …

This paper presents the experimental evidence on the effects of desiccation, low and high
temperatures, rough handling, root loss and storage between lifting and planting on plant …

The retention of nutrients within an ecosystem depends on temporal andspatial synchrony
between nutrient availability and nutrient uptake, anddisruption of fine root processes can …

Niche‐based models are widely used to understand what environmental factors determine
species' distributions, but they do not provide a clear framework to study the processes …

Although cold hardiness is known to be a major determinant of tree species distribution, its
dynamics and the factors that regulate it remain poorly understood. Variation in cold …

Due to projected increases in winter air temperatures in the northeastern USA over the next
100 years, the snowpack is expected to decrease in depth and duration, thereby increasing …

Many temperate and boreal tree species have a chilling requirement, that is, they need to
experience cold temperatures during fall and winter to burst bud normally in the spring …

In the literature, frost hardiness (FH) studies in trees have often been restricted to one organ
(buds, leaves, needles or twigs). To extend our knowledge and gain a unified view, FH …

Northern forest ecosystems are projected to experience warmer growing seasons, as well as
winters with reduced snowpack depth and duration. Reduced snowpack will expose soils to …