Relationship between Forest Ecophysiology and Environment

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: adaptive strategies; Agribusiness and primary industries; allometry; altitude; Aspromonte National Park; autotoxicity; Biology, life sciences; boreal forest; branch lifespan; branch shedding; canopy; canopy tree species; carbon isotopes; carbon sequestration; Cinnamomum migao; climate change; climate niches; climate response; cold stress; crown development; deciduous forest; dendrochronology; dendrometer; discrimination; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; electron transfer; endangered; Environmental factors; excess absorbed light energy; forest productivity; Forestry industry; functional traits; Growth stage; heat dissipation; Industry and industrial studies; keeling plot; Larix decidua Mill; leaf angle; leaf functional traits; leaf temperature; leaf thermal damage; leaf thickness; leaf three-dimensional structure; Leaf δ13C; Leaf δ15N; light; light acclimation; light environment; light foraging; light regime; Malus baccata; Mathematics and Science; MbERF11; Mediterranean; mixed forest; MOEd; n/a; nitrogen dioxide; nitrogen metabolism; non-structural carbohydrates; nutrients; ontogenetic phases; ontogeny; phenotypic plasticity; photochemical efficiency; photorespiration; photosynthesis; Pinus cembra L; Pinus nigra; Pinus pinaster; recruitment period; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Relative importance; reproductive system; Research and information: general; respiration; salinity; salt stress; seed germination; seedling growth; Sessile oak; shade acclimation; shade tolerance; shoot lifespan; shoot shedding; soil enzyme; soil fungi; soil substrate; Sonneratia × hainanensis; stem circumference changes; stem lifespan; stem shedding; sunfleck; temperature; thermoregulation; transgenic plant; tree architecture; TreeSonic; water availability; wood density
• ISBN: 9783036506494; 3036506489; 9783036506487; 3036506497
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0649-4

Ecophysiological mechanisms underlie plant responses to environmental conditions and the influence these responses have on ecological patterns and processes. In this Special Issue, with a particular interest in the interactions between climate change, environmental disturbance, and functional ecology, experimental observations are described at a range of spatial scales. A modeling framework is used in an effort to relate mechanistic responses to ecosystem functions and services, and link forest ecophysiology and environmental indicators. This Special Issue collects important advances in studying and monitoring plant–environment interactions, covering biogeographic gradients from Mediterranean woodlands to boreal forests and from Alpine mountains to tropical environments.