Modern strategies to assess and breed forest tree adaptation to changing climate

AJ Cortés, M Restrepo-Montoya… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Studying the genetics of adaptation to new environments in ecologically and industrially
important tree species is currently a major research line in the fields of plant science and …

Methods used for the study of endophytic fungi: A review on methodologies and challenges, and associated tips

JBA Dos Reis, AS Lorenzi, HMM do Vale - Archives of Microbiology, 2022 - Springer
Endophytic fungi are microorganisms that colonize the interior of plant tissues (eg leaves,
seeds, stem, trunk, roots, fruits, flowers) in intracellular and/or extracellular spaces without …

Greater evolutionary divergence of thermal limits within marine than terrestrial species

M Sasaki, JM Barley, S Gignoux-Wolfsohn… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
There is considerable uncertainty regarding which ecosystems are most vulnerable to
warming. Current understanding of organismal sensitivity is largely centred on species-level …

Rules of plant species ranges: Applications for conservation strategies

JE Shay, LK Pennington… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Earth is changing rapidly and so are many plant species' ranges. Here, we synthesize eco-
evolutionary patterns found in plant range studies and how knowledge of species ranges …

Warmer springs increase potential for temporal reproductive isolation among habitat patches in subalpine flowering plants

S Rivest, BD Inouye, JRK Forrest - Journal of Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Flowering phenology can vary considerably even at fine spatial scales, potentially leading to
temporal reproductive isolation among habitat patches. Climate change could alter flowering …

Application of Deep Learning for Classification of Intertidal Eelgrass from Drone-Acquired Imagery

K Tallam, N Nguyen, J Ventura, A Fricker, S Calhoun… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Shallow estuarine habitats are globally undergoing rapid changes due to climate change
and anthropogenic influences, resulting in spatiotemporal shifts in distribution and habitat …

Low but significant evolutionary potential for growth, phenology and reproduction traits in European beech

M Westergren, J Archambeau, M Bajc… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Local survival of forest tree populations under climate change depends on existing genetic
variation and their adaptability to changing environments. Responses to selection were …

Plasticity in growth is genetically variable and highly conserved across spatial scales in a Mediterranean pine

R de la Mata, R Zas - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phenotypic plasticity is a main mechanism for sessile organisms to cope with changing
environments. Plasticity is genetically based and can evolve under natural selection so that …

Plant functional traits are correlated with species persistence in the herb layer of old-growth beech forests

G Campetella, S Chelli, E Simonetti, C Damiani… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
This paper explores which traits are correlated with fine-scale (0.25 m2) species persistence
patterns in the herb layer of old-growth forests. Four old-growth beech forests representing …

Fine‐scale empirical data on niche divergence and homeolog expression patterns in an allopolyploid and its diploid progenitor species

R Akiyama, J Sun, M Hatakeyama… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polyploidization is pervasive in plants, but little is known about the niche divergence of wild
allopolyploids (species that harbor polyploid genomes originating from different diploid …