Living in Drylands: Functional Adaptations of Trees and Shrubs to Cope with High Temperatures and Water Scarcity

High water use in desert plants exposed to extreme heat

(2020) Luiza M. T. Aparecido et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of temperature on the cuticular transpiration barrier of two desert plants with water-spender and water-saver strategies

(2019) Amauri Bueno et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

High heat tolerance in plants from the Andean highlands: Implications for paramos in a warmer world

(2019) Indira V. Leon-Garcia et al.   PLoS One

A unified framework of plant adaptive strategies to drought: Crossing scales and disciplines

(2018) Florence Volaire   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in leaf epicuticular wax load and its effect on leaf temperature and physiological traits in wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L.) exposed to high temperatures during anthesis

(2017) T. D. Huggins et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY AND CROP SCIENCE

Physico-chemical properties of plant cuticles and their functional and ecological significance

(2017) Victoria Fernández et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Increase in leaf temperature opens stomata and decouples net photosynthesis from stomatal conductance in Pinus taeda and Populus deltoides x nigra

(2017) Josef Urban et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Future aridity under conditions of global climate change

(2017) Mohammad Amin Asadi Zarch et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Characterizing Precipitation Variability and Trends in the World’s Mediterranean-Climate Areas

(2017) Matthew Deitch et al.   Water

Photoprotective Strategies of Mediterranean Plants in Relation to Morphological Traits and Natural Environmental Pressure: A Meta-Analytical Approach

(2017) Beatriz Fernández-Marín et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Rubisco and Rubisco Activase Play an Important Role in the Biochemical Limitations of Photosynthesis in Rice, Wheat, and Maize under High Temperature and Water Deficit

(2017) Juan A. Perdomo et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Micromorfología foliar del género Quercus (Fagaceae) en México

(2017) Claudia Scareli-Santos et al.   Acta Botanica Mexicana

Ecophysiology of leaf trichomes

(2016) Christopher P. Bickford   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

The influence of leaf size and shape on leaf thermal dynamics: does theory hold up under natural conditions?

(2016) A. Leigh et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Effectiveness of cuticular transpiration barriers in a desert plant at controlling water loss at high temperatures

(2016) Ann-Christin Schuster et al.   AoB Plants

Leaf morphological and physiological adaptations of a deciduous oak (Quercus fagineaLam.) to the Mediterranean climate: a comparison with a closely related temperate species (Quercus roburL.)

(2015) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Leaf functional plasticity decreases the water consumption without further consequences for carbon uptake inQuercus cocciferaL. under Mediterranean conditions

(2015) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Evidence of vulnerability segmentation in a deciduous Mediterranean oak (Quercus subpyrenaica E. H. del Villar)

(2015) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

The Effect of Epidermal Structures on Leaf Spectral Signatures of Ice Plants (Aizoaceae)

(2015) René Heim et al.   Remote Sensing

Morphological and physiological divergences within Quercus ilex support the existence of different ecotypes depending on climatic dryness

(2014) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Uptake of Water via Branches Helps Timberline Conifers Refill Embolized Xylem in Late Winter

(2014) S. Mayr et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Wettability, Polarity, and Water Absorption of Holm Oak Leaves: Effect of Leaf Side and Age

(2014) Victoria Fernández et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Responses of terrestrial aridity to global warming

(2014) Qiang Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Three pools of zeaxanthin in Quercus coccifera leaves during light transitions with different roles in rapidly reversible photoprotective energy dissipation and photoprotection

(2013) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

C3photosynthesis in the desert plantRhazya strictais fully functional at high temperatures and light intensities

(2013) Tracy Lawson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Physiological differences explain the co-existence of different regeneration strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems

(2013) Alberto Vilagrosa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Validation of temperature–precipitation based aridity index: Paleoclimatic implications

(2013) Cheng Quan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Formation and Function of Plant Cuticles

(2013) T. H. Yeats et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Assessing Water Stress of Desert Tamarugo Trees Using in situ Data and Very High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing

(2013) Roberto Chávez et al.   Remote Sensing

Foliar epidermis morphology in Quercus (subgenus Quercus, section Quercus) in Iran

(2012) Parisa Panahi et al.   ACTA BOTANICA CROATICA

Assessing the role of vertical leaves within the photosynthetic function of Styrax camporum under drought conditions

(2012) A. M. Feistler et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Stomatal encryption by epicuticular waxes as a plastic trait modifying gas exchange in a Mediterranean evergreen species (Quercus cocciferaL.)

(2012) ANITA ROTH-NEBELSICK et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

The Laperrine’s olive tree (Oleaceae): a wild genetic resource of the cultivated olive and a model-species for studying the biogeography of the Saharan Mountains

(2012) G. Besnard et al.   ACTA BOTANICA GALLICA

Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

(2011) Daniel J. Peppe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Impact of an exceptionally hot dry summer on photosynthetic traits in oak (Quercus pubescens) leaves

(2011) P. Haldimann et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Hydraulic traits are associated with the distribution range of two closely related Mediterranean firs, Abies alba Mill. and Abies pinsapo Boiss.

(2011) J. J. Peguero-Pina et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

On the differential advantages of evergreenness and deciduousness in mediterranean oak woodlands: a flux perspective

(2010) Dennis D. Baldocchi et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Are symplast tolerance to intense drought conditions and xylem vulnerability to cavitation coordinated? An integrated analysis of photosynthetic, hydraulic and leaf level processes in two Mediterranean drought-resistant species

(2010) A. Vilagrosa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Leaf paraheliotropism in Styrax camporum confers increased light use efficiency and advantageous photosynthetic responses rather than photoprotection

(2010) Gustavo Habermann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

High-temperature tolerance of a tropical tree,Ficus insipida: methodological reassessment and climate change considerations

(2010) G. Heinrich Krause et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF LEAF FORM: ASSESSING THE RELATIVE ROLES OF SELECTIVE PRESSURES AND PHYLOGENETIC CONSTRAINTS

(2010) THOMAS J. GIVNISH   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evaluation of FAO Penman–Monteith and alternative methods for estimating reference evapotranspiration with missing data in Southern Ontario, Canada

(2009) Paulo C. Sentelhas et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Ecophysiological significance of leaf size variation in Proteaceae from the Cape Floristic Region

(2009) Megan J. Yates et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Differential photosynthetic performance and photoprotection mechanisms of three Mediterranean evergreen oaks under severe drought stress

(2009) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Leaves in the lowest and highest winds: temperature, force and shape

(2009) Steven Vogel   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phylogenetic ecology of leaf surface traits in the milkweeds (Asclepiasspp.): chemistry, ecophysiology, and insect behavior

(2009) Anurag A. Agrawal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Stomatal Crypts Have Small Effects on Transpiration: A Numerical Model Analysis

(2009) A. Roth-Nebelsick et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Maximum leaf conductance driven by CO2 effects on stomatal size and density over geologic time

(2009) P. J. Franks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolutionary relations of sunken, covered, and encrypted stomata to dry habitats in Proteaceae

(2008) Gregory J. Jordan et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Increased aridity in the Mediterranean region under greenhouse gas forcing estimated from high resolution simulations with a regional climate model

(2008) Xuejie Gao et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Hydrogen peroxide is involved in the acclimation of the Mediterranean shrub, Cistus albidus L., to summer drought

(2008) T. Jubany-Mari et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Photochemistry, remotely sensed physiological reflectance index and de-epoxidation state of the xanthophyll cycle in Quercus coccifera under intense drought

(2008) José Javier Peguero-Pina et al.   OECOLOGIA

Paraheliotropism in Robinia pseudoacacia L.: an efficient strategy to optimise photosynthetic performance under natural environmental conditions

(2008) C. Arena et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Photoprotective responses of Mediterranean and Atlantic trees to the extreme heat-wave of summer 2003 in Southwestern Europe

(2008) José Ignacio García-Plazaola et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION