Impacts of Climate Change on Tree Physiology and Responses of Forest Ecosystems

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: acclimation; adaptation; Aleppo pine; basal area increment; carbon dioxide; cardinal temperatures; Cedrela odorata; climate; climate change; common garden; dendrochronology; diurnal variation; drought; ecodistance; ecology; Economics; Economics of specific sectors; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Environmental economics; extreme frost; forest dieback; forest ecology; gene expression analysis; germination; global climate change; heat and drought; leaf anatomy; Mediterranean forest; morphology evaluation; mortality; moving window analysis; n/a; National Park; nitrogen; open-top chamber; phenotypic plasticity; Phoebe bournei; photosynthesis; Pinaceae; Pinus arizonica Engelm; Pinus ponderosa var. brachyptera (Engelm.); Ponderosae; Populus; Quercus; radial profile; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; response function; RNA sequencing; sap flux; sapwood depth; seasonal variation; seeds; stem growth; stomatal frequency; stomatal size; survival rate; thermal time; tree line shift; tree rings; trees adaptation; water availability

Extreme climatic events, such as intense and prolonged droughts and heat waves, are occurring with increasing frequency and with pronounced impacts on forests. Forest trees, as long-lived organisms, need to develop adaptation mechanisms to successfully respond to such climatic extremes. Whether phys...