Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

J Peñuelas, J Sardans, M Estiarte… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We review the evidence of how organisms and populations are currently responding to
climate change through phenotypic plasticity, genotypic evolution, changes in distribution …

Metabolic and physiological responses of Mediterranean high‐mountain and alpine plants to combined abiotic stresses

R Magaña Ugarte, A Escudero… - Physiologia …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
High‐mountain areas provide excellent opportunities to study the effects of combined abiotic
stresses on plant physiology given their variety of steep ecological gradients, low …

Phenology drives species interactions and modularity in a plant-flower visitor network

J Morente-López, C Lara-Romero, C Ornosa… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Phenology is often identified as one of the main structural driving forces of plant–flower
visitor networks. Nevertheless, we do not yet have a full understanding of the effects of …

How does climate change affect regeneration of Mediterranean high‐mountain plants? An integration and synthesis of current knowledge

L Giménez‐Benavides, A Escudero… - Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mediterranean mountains are extraordinarily diverse and hold a high proportion of endemic
plants, but they are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and most species distribution …

Demographic fate of Arabidopsis thaliana cohorts of autumn‐ and spring‐germinated plants along an altitudinal gradient

FX Picó - Journal of Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how plants respond and adapt to varying environmental conditions has
attracted the attention of plant ecologists for decades. To study this process, altitudinal …

Linking ecological niche models and common garden experiments to predict phenotypic differentiation in stressful environments: Assessing the adaptive value of …

J Morente‐López, JM Kass… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental variation within a species' range can create contrasting selective pressures,
leading to divergent selection and novel adaptations. The conservation value of populations …

High Arctic flowering phenology and plant–pollinator interactions in response to delayed snow melt and simulated warming

MAK Gillespie, N Baggesen… - Environmental Research …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The projected alterations to climate in the High Arctic are likely to result in changes to the
short growing season, particularly with varying predicted effects on winter snowfall, the …

Better soon than never: climate change induces strong phenological reassembly in the flowering of a Mediterranean shrub community

D Pareja-Bonilla, M Arista, LPC Morellato… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Flowering is a key process in the life cycle of a plant. Climate
change is shifting flowering phenologies in the Northern Hemisphere, but studies with long …

Under pressure: how a M editerranean high‐mountain forb coordinates growth and hydraulic xylem anatomy in response to temperature and water constraints

JM Olano, I Almería, M Eugenio… - Functional Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Plant growth in M editerranean high mountains is limited by the double climatic stress of low
winter temperatures and summer drought. Elevational shifts in response to climate change …

A mechanistic framework for understanding the effects of climate change on the link between flowering and fruiting phenology

ME Sandor, CE Aslan, L Pejchar… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Phenological shifts are a widely studied consequence of climate change. Little is known,
however, about certain critical phenological events, nor about mechanistic links between …