Maintenance of abiotic stress memory in plants: Lessons learned from heat acclimation

Y Charng, S Mitra, SJ Yu - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plants acquire enhanced tolerance to intermittent abiotic stress by employing information
obtained during prior exposure to an environmental disturbance, a process known as …

Genomics and conservation: Guidance from training to analyses and applications

LM Schiebelhut, AS Guillaume, A Kuhn… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental change is intensifying the biodiversity crisis and threatening species across
the tree of life. Conservation genomics can help inform conservation actions and slow …

Ability of seedlings to survive heat and drought portends future demographic challenges for five southwestern US conifers

JL Crockett, MD Hurteau - Tree Physiology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Climate change and disturbance are altering forests and the rates and locations of tree
regeneration. In semi-arid forests of the southwestern USA, limitations imposed by hot and …

Intensive leaf cooling promotes tree survival during a record heatwave

BC Posch, SE Bush, DF Koepke, A Schuessler… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Increasing heatwaves are threatening forest ecosystems globally. Leaf thermal regulation
and tolerance are important for plant survival during heatwaves, though the interaction …

How plants cope with heatwaves in a drier environment

R López, JA Ramírez-Valiente, P Pita - Flora, 2022 - Elsevier
Heatwaves are particularly harmful for plants in combination with drought. The direct effects
of high temperatures by themselves can be severe and their negative impacts depend on …

Leaf thermal safety margins decline at hotter temperatures in a natural warming 'experiment'in the Amazon

AT Kullberg, L Coombs, RD Soria Ahuanari… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The threat of rising global temperatures may be especially pronounced for low‐latitude,
lowland plant species that have evolved under stable climatic conditions. However, little is …

Thermal tolerance of tropical and temperate alpine plants suggests that 'mountain passes are not higher in the tropics'

P Sklenář, R Jaramillo, SS Wojtasiak… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Tolerance of species to extreme temperatures largely determines their distribution and
vulnerability to climate change. We examined thermal tolerance in tropical and temperate …

High heat tolerance, evaporative cooling, and stomatal decoupling regulate canopy temperature and their safety margins in three European oak species

A Gauthey, A Kahmen, JM Limousin… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Heatwaves and soil droughts are increasing in frequency and intensity, leading many tree
species to exceed their thermal thresholds, and driving wide‐scale forest mortality …

Contrasting heat tolerance of urban trees to extreme temperatures during heatwaves

M Esperon-Rodriguez, SA Power, MG Tjoelker… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Extreme climate conditions, including more frequent and prolonged heatwaves, are
increasing in many regions throughout the world. Urban trees can aid in mitigating the …

Seasonal acclimation of photosynthetic thermal tolerances in six woody tropical species along a thermal gradient

AT Kullberg, KJ Feeley - Functional ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme heat events are becoming increasingly common, and the short‐term acclimation of
photosynthesis will have a large impact on plant performance. Trees in lowland tropical …