Spatial and temporal variation in plant hydraulic traits and their relevance for climate change impacts on vegetation

WRL Anderegg - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Plant hydraulics mediate terrestrial woody plant productivity, influencing global water,
carbon, and biogeochemical cycles, as well as ecosystem vulnerability to drought and …

What we talk about when we talk about seasonality–A transdisciplinary review

O Kwiecien, T Braun, CF Brunello, P Faulkner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of seasonality is indisputable in climate and ecosystem dynamics. Seasonal
temperature and precipitation variability are of vital importance for the availability of food …

Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers

JG Huang, Q Ma, S Rossi, F Biondi… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Wood formation consumes around 15% of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions per year and
plays a critical role in long-term sequestration of carbon on Earth. However, the exogenous …

Hydrological niche segregation defines forest structure and drought tolerance strategies in a seasonal Amazon forest

M Brum, MA Vadeboncoeur, V Ivanov… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between rooting depth and above‐ground hydraulic traits can potentially
define drought resistance strategies that are important in determining species distribution …

[HTML][HTML] Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe

AK Bose, D Scherrer, JJ Camarero, D Ziche… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent studies have identified strong relationships between delayed recovery of tree growth
after drought and tree mortality caused by subsequent droughts. These observations raise …

Quantitative wood anatomy—practical guidelines

G Von Arx, A Crivellaro, AL Prendin, K Čufar… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Quantitative wood anatomy analyzes the variability of xylem anatomical features in trees,
shrubs, and herbaceous species to address research questions related to plant functioning …

How to quantify conduits in wood?

A Scholz, M Klepsch, Z Karimi, S Jansen - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Vessels and tracheids represent the most important xylem cells with respect to long distance
water transport in plants. Wood anatomical studies frequently provide several quantitative …

Kinetics of tracheid development explain conifer tree‐ring structure

HE Cuny, CBK Rathgeber, D Frank, P Fonti… - New …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Conifer tree rings are generally composed of large, thin‐walled cells of light earlywood
followed by narrow, thick‐walled cells of dense latewood. Yet, how wood formation …

ROXAS–A new tool to build centuries-long tracheid-lumen chronologies in conifers

G Von Arx, M Carrer - Dendrochronologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Measurements of tree-ring features (ring width, density, isotopes concentration, etc.) are well-
established proxies of environmental variability and, in particular, climate fluctuation at local …

Dendroecology in the tropics: a review

DMA Rozendaal, PA Zuidema - Trees, 2011 - Springer
Over the last decade the field of tropical dendroecology has developed rapidly and major
achievements have been made. We reviewed the advances in three main themes within the …