Functional traits and adaptive capacity of European forests to climate change

F Bussotti, M Pollastrini, V Holland… - … and Experimental Botany, 2015 - Elsevier
Increasing temperatures and drought risks through climate change are expected to have
several consequences for European forests. Adaptive strategies may include:(i) persistence …

The genetics of drought tolerance in conifers

E Moran, J Lauder, C Musser, A Stathos… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
As temperatures warm and precipitation patterns shift as a result of climate change, interest
in the identification of tree genotypes that will thrive under more arid conditions has grown …

全球气候变化下植物水分利用效率研究进展

王庆伟, 于大炮, 代力民, 周莉, 周旺明, 齐光, 齐麟… - 应用生态学报, 2010 - cjae.net
气候变化是20 世纪80 年代以来全球最为关注的环境问题之一, 显著影响着植物的生产力以及
水分运移和利用格局, 改变植物个体, 群落及生态系统的水分利用效率(WUE) …

Long tree‐ring chronologies reveal 20th century increases in water‐use efficiency but no enhancement of tree growth at five Iberian pine forests

L ANDREU‐HAYLES, O Planells… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the tree growth and physiological response of five pine forest stands in
relation to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration (ca) and climate in the Iberian …

Phenology determines water use strategies of three economic tree species in the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China

W Wu, Z Tao, G Chen, T Meng, Y Li, H Feng… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Economic tree species growing in the semi-arid Loess Plateau of China are important for
maintaining sound economic viability and protecting the fragile hydro-ecological …

Adaptation of Mediterranean forest species to climate: Lessons from common garden experiments

JA Ramírez‐Valiente, L Santos del Blanco… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mediterranean ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots located between temperate mesic
climates and semi‐deserts and deserts. Mediterranean climates are characterized by a …

Contrasting adaptive strategies by Caragana korshinskii and Salix psammophila in a semiarid revegetated ecosystem

Y Zhao, L Wang, J Knighton, J Evaristo… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Salix psammophila and Caragana korshinskii are pioneer species used for revegetating
farmlands on the Loess Plateau. Understanding the water-use strategies and physiological …

Uniform selection as a primary force reducing population genetic differentiation of cavitation resistance across a species range

JB Lamy, L Bouffier, R Burlett, C Plomion, H Cochard… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Cavitation resistance to water stress-induced embolism determines plant
survival during drought. This adaptive trait has been described as highly variable in a wide …

Phenotypic plasticity in mesic populations of Pinus pinaster improves resistance to xylem embolism (P50) under severe drought

L Corcuera, H Cochard, E Gil-Pelegrin, E Notivol - Trees, 2011 - Springer
The objectives of the study were to assess the phenotypic variation in the vulnerability to
water stress-induced cavitation (estimated by P 50, or the xylem water potential which …

Intra-specific variability in biomass partitioning and carbon isotopic discrimination under moderate drought stress in seedlings from four Pinus pinaster populations

I Aranda, R Alía, U Ortega, ÂK Dantas… - Tree Genetics & …, 2010 - Springer
The response to drought of 20 open-pollinated families from four Pinus pinaster Ait.
populations covering a latitudinal cline (France, Central and Southern Spain, and Morocco) …