Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

Birch and conifer deadwood favour early establishment and shade tolerance in yellow birch juveniles growing in sugar maple dominated stands

(2016) Jean-Bastien Lambert et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Vulnerability of timber supply to projected changes in fire regime in Canada’s managed forests

(2015) S. Gauthier et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Functional traits and adaptive capacity of European forests to climate change

(2015) Filippo Bussotti et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Predicting long-term carbon sequestration in response to CO2 enrichment: How and why do current ecosystem models differ?

(2015) Anthony P. Walker et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Cross-scale integration of knowledge for predicting species ranges: a metamodelling framework

(2015) Matthew V. Talluto et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Geoscience

Current controversies and challenges in applying plant hydraulic techniques

(2015) Steven Jansen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Boreal forest health and global change

(2015) S. Gauthier et al.   SCIENCE

Non-structural carbohydrates in woody plants compared among laboratories

(2015) Audrey G. Quentin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Explaining forest productivity using tree functional traits and phylogenetic information: two sides of the same coin over evolutionary scale?

(2015) Alain Paquette et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Climate-smart management of biodiversity

(2015) Christopher P. Nadeau et al.   Ecosphere

Functional traits predict drought performance and distribution of Mediterranean woody species

(2014) Bárbara Lopez-Iglesias et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Not all traits are ‘functional’: insights from taxonomy and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

(2014) Musa C. Mlambo   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Change and Evolution in the Plant Hardiness Zones of Canada

(2014) Daniel W. McKenney et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Will tree species experience increased frost damage due to climate change because of changes in leaf phenology?

(2014) Xavier Morin et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A refinement of models projecting future Canadian fire regimes using homogeneous fire regime zones

(2014) Yan Boulanger et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Can Boreal and Temperate Forest Management be Adapted to the Uncertainties of 21st Century Climate Change?

(2014) Andrew Park et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Seeing the trees as well as the forest: The importance of managing forest genetic resources

(2014) Judy Loo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Development of height to crown base models for thirteen tree species of the North American Acadian Region

(2014) Baburam Rijal et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

The variability of stomatal sensitivity to leaf water potential across tree species indicates a continuum between isohydric and anisohydric behaviours

(2014) Tamir Klein   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Is climate an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the Eastern United States?

(2014) Gregory J. Nowacki et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Earlier leaf-out rather than difference in freezing resistance puts juvenile trees at greater risk of damage than adult trees

(2014) Yann Vitasse et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Speedy small stomata?

(2014) J. A. Raven   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity

(2014) Michael T. Burrows et al.   NATURE

Recent advances in tree hydraulics highlight the ecological significance of the hydraulic safety margin

(2014) Sylvain Delzon et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Water relations ofRobinia pseudoacacia L.: do vessels cavitate and refill diurnally or are R-shaped curves invalid inRobinia?

(2014) RUIQING WANG et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Cavitation and Its Discontents: Opportunities for Resolving Current Controversies

(2014) F. E. Rockwell et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Beyond a Climate-Centric View of Plant Distribution: Edaphic Variables Add Value to Distribution Models

(2014) Frieda Beauregard et al.   PLoS One

Predicting species' range limits from functional traits for the tree flora of North America

(2014) U. Stahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient

(2014) C. Lamanna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870

(2014) Hans Pretzsch et al.   Nature Communications

Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels

(2014) Michael J. O’Brien et al.   Nature Climate Change

Elevation-dependent responses of tree mast seeding to climate change over 45 years

(2014) Robert B. Allen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Changing precipitation regimes and the water and carbon economies of trees

(2014) Rafael S. Oliveira et al.   Theoretical and Experimental Plant Physiology

Climate isn't everything: Competitive interactions and variation by life stage will also affect range shifts in a warming world

(2013) Ailene K. Ettinger et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Ecological significance of seed desiccation sensitivity in Quercus ilex

(2013) Thierry Joët et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Nonstructural Carbon in Woody Plants

(2013) Michael C. Dietze et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Impacts of Changing Disturbance Regimes on Serotinous Plant Populations and Communities

(2013)   BIOSCIENCE

Landscape-scale eco-evolutionary dynamics: Selection by seed predators and fire determine a major reproductive strategy

(2013) Matt V. Talluto et al.   ECOLOGY

Anticipating the consequences of climate change for Canada’s boreal forest ecosystems

(2013) David T. Price et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Lethal drought leads to reduction in nonstructural carbohydrates in Norway spruce tree roots but not in the canopy

(2013) Henrik Hartmann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Genetic divergence in forest trees: understanding the consequences of climate change

(2013) Antoine Kremer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Exploring tree species colonization potentials using a spatially explicit simulation model: implications for four oaks under climate change

(2013) Anantha M. Prasad et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Frost hardiness vs. growth performance in trembling aspen: an experimental test of assisted migration

(2013) Stefan G. Schreiber et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

(2013) Pieter De Frenne et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Methods for measuring plant vulnerability to cavitation: a critical review

(2013) Hervé Cochard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Towards an advanced assessment of the hydrological vulnerability of forests to climate change-induced drought

(2013) Tamir Klein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO2concentration: from the geological past to the next century

(2013) Peter J. Franks et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Limited genetic variability and phenotypic plasticity detected for cavitation resistance in a Mediterranean pine

(2013) Jean-Baptiste Lamy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cutting-edge research or cutting-edge artefact? An overdue control experiment complicates the xylem refilling story

(2013) JOHN SPERRY   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Cutting xylem under tension or supersaturated with gas can generate PLC and the appearance of rapid recovery from embolism

(2013) JAMES K. WHEELER et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

(2013) Wendy B. Foden et al.   PLoS One

Tree Migration-Rates: Narrowing the Gap between Inferred Post-Glacial Rates and Projected Rates

(2013) Angelica Feurdean et al.   PLoS One

An Integrated Model of Environmental Effects on Growth, Carbohydrate Balance, and Mortality of Pinus ponderosa Forests in the Southern Rocky Mountains

(2013) Christina L. Tague et al.   PLoS One

Will plant movements keep up with climate change?

(2013) Richard T. Corlett et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Epigenetic regulation of adaptive responses of forest tree species to the environment

(2013) Katharina Bräutigam et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Drought-induced trans-generational tradeoff between stress tolerance and defence: consequences for range limits?

(2013) Jacob D. Alsdurf et al.   AoB Plants

Interspecific coordination and intraspecific plasticity of fine root traits in North American temperate tree species

(2013) Cornelia M. Tobner et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Maintenance of xylem Network Transport Capacity: A Review of Embolism Repair in Vascular Plants

(2013) Craig R. Brodersen et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Burial increases seed longevity of two Artemisia tridentata (Asteraceae) subspecies

(2012) Upekala C. Wijayratne et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A functional trait perspective on plant invasion

(2012) Rebecca E. Drenovsky et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Placing Forestry in the Assisted Migration Debate

(2012) John H. Pedlar et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Tree size affects accumulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolites in white spruce seedlings during short day-induced bud formation

(2012) Catherine Dhont et al.   Botany

ThesauForm—Traits: A web based collaborative tool to develop a thesaurus for plant functional diversity research

(2012) Marie-Angélique Laporte et al.   Ecological Informatics

Phenological tracking enables positive species responses to climate change

(2012) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   ECOLOGY

Uses and misuses of bioclimatic envelope modeling

(2012) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY

Reconstructing patterns of temperature, phenology, and frost damage over 124 years: Spring damage risk is increasing

(2012) Carol K. Augspurger   ECOLOGY

Climate change impacts on future boreal fire regimes

(2012) William J. de Groot et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire in managed forests of eastern Canada: Risks and options

(2012) Martin P. Girardin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Improving plant functional groups for dynamic models of biodiversity: at the crossroads between functional and community ecology

(2012) Isabelle Boulangeat et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability

(2012) Christopher P.O. Reyer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Smaller, faster stomata: scaling of stomatal size, rate of response, and stomatal conductance

(2012) Paul L. Drake et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Inter-specific and intra-specific trait variation along short environmental gradients in an old-growth temperate forest

(2012) Sébastien Auger et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Diverse functional responses to drought in a Mediterranean-type shrubland in South Africa

(2012) A. G. West et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The relative importance for plant invasiveness of trait means, and their plasticity and integration in a multivariate framework

(2012) Oscar Godoy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Resprouting as a key functional trait: how buds, protection and resources drive persistence after fire

(2012) P. J. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Hydraulic safety margins and embolism reversal in stems and leaves: Why are conifers and angiosperms so different?

(2012) Daniel M. Johnson et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

An adaptive epigenetic memory in conifers with important implications for seed production

(2012) Igor Yakovlev et al.   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Measurements of stem xylem hydraulic conductivity in the laboratory and field

(2012) Peter J. Melcher et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Plants on the move: The role of seed dispersal and initial population establishment for climate-driven range expansions

(2011) Arndt Hampe   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecological Lessons from Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments

(2011) Richard J. Norby et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Costs of dispersal

(2011) Dries Bonte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

QTL mapping in white spruce: gene maps and genomic regions underlying adaptive traits across pedigrees, years and environments

(2011) Betty Pelgas et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) assisted migration potential: testing establishment north of the species range

(2011) Sierra C. McLane et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Do invasive species show higher phenotypic plasticity than native species and, if so, is it adaptive? A meta-analysis

(2011) Amy Michelle Davidson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spread of North American wind-dispersed trees in future environments

(2011) Ran Nathan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?

(2011) Amy L. Angert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Lessons Learned While Integrating Habitat, Dispersal, Disturbance, and Life-History Traits into Species Habitat Models Under Climate Change

(2011) Louis R. Iverson et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Interdisciplinarity in the environmental sciences: barriers and frontiers

(2011) CHRISTINA C. HICKS et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Reconstruction of false spring occurrences over the southeastern United States, 1901–2007: an increasing risk of spring freeze damage?

(2011) Garrett P Marino et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Modifying climate change habitat models using tree species-specific assessments of model uncertainty and life history-factors

(2011) Stephen N. Matthews et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Regeneration responses to gap size and coarse woody debris within natural disturbance-based silvicultural systems in northeastern Minnesota, USA

(2011) Nicholas W. Bolton et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest responses to climate change in the northwestern United States: Ecophysiological foundations for adaptive management

(2011) Daniel J. Chmura et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Rethinking species' ability to cope with rapid climate change

(2011) CHRISTIAN HOF et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

(2011) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Revisiting projected shifts in the climate envelopes of North American trees using updated general circulation models

(2011) DANIEL W. McKENNEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant extinction risk under climate change: are forecast range shifts alone a good indicator of species vulnerability to global warming?

(2011) Damien A. Fordham et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Stomatal control as a driver of plant evolution

(2011) M. Haworth et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

(2011) Cécile H. Albert et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Vulnerability curves by centrifugation: is there an open vessel artefact, and are ‘r’ shaped curves necessarily invalid?

(2011) JOHN S. SPERRY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

(2011) T. P. Dawson et al.   SCIENCE

A case-study of water transport in co-occurring ring- versus diffuse-porous trees: contrasts in water-status, conducting capacity, cavitation and vessel refilling

(2011) H. Taneda et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Root carbon reserve dynamics in aspen seedlings: does simulated drought induce reserve limitation?

(2011) D. A. Galvez et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Improving assessment and modelling of climate change impacts on global terrestrial biodiversity

(2011) Sean M. McMahon et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

(2011) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptive potential in forest tree populations: what is it, and how can we measure it?

(2010) Ivan Scotti   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Global change and the evolution of phenotypic plasticity in plants

(2010) Silvia Matesanz et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

(2010) Sébastien Lavergne et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Interacting Effects of Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution on Population Persistence in a Changing Climate

(2010) THOMAS E. REED et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

BioMove - an integrated platform simulating the dynamic response of species to environmental change

(2010) Guy F. Midgley et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Plant geography upon the basis of functional traits: an example from eastern North American trees

(2010) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

Response of aspen stands to forest tent caterpillar defoliation and subsequent overstory mortality in northeastern Ontario, Canada

(2010) Rongzhou Man et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tree ring evidence for limited direct CO2fertilization of forests over the 20th century

(2010) Ze'ev Gedalof et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest

(2010) MICHAEL MICHAELIAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Grand Challenges in Comparative Physiology: Integration Across Disciplines and Across Levels of Biological Organization

(2010) D. L. Mykles et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The ecological significance of phenology in four different tree species: effects of light and temperature on bud burst

(2010) Amelia Caffarra et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Ectomycorrhizas and water relations of trees: a review

(2010) Tarja Lehto et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Testing hypotheses that link wood anatomy to cavitation resistance and hydraulic conductivity in the genus Acer

(2010) Frederic Lens et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Changes in leaf phenology of three European oak species in response to experimental climate change

(2010) Xavier Morin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Soil moisture depletion under simulated drought in the Amazon: impacts on deep root uptake

(2010) Daniel Markewitz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Will the CO2 fertilization effect in forests be offset by reduced tree longevity?

(2010) Harald Bugmann et al.   OECOLOGIA

Reliable estimation of biochemical parameters from C3 leaf photosynthesis-intercellular carbon dioxide response curves

(2010) LIANHONG GU et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Molecular events of apical bud formation in white spruce, Picea glauca

(2010) WALID EL KAYAL et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

The interacting effects of temperature, ground disturbance, and herbivory on seedling establishment: implications for treeline advance with climate warming

(2010) Anne Munier et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Sustained enhancement of photosynthesis in mature deciduous forest trees after 8 years of free air CO2 enrichment

(2010) Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader et al.   PLANTA

CO2 enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability

(2010) R. J. Norby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying the relevance of intraspecific trait variability for functional diversity

(2010) Francesco de Bello et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Germination Patterns of Soil Seed Banks in Relation to Fire in Portuguese Littoral Pine Forest Vegetation

(2010) Lourdes Santos et al.   Fire Ecology

Refinement of rooting depths using satellite-based evapotranspiration seasonality for ecosystem modeling in California

(2009) Kazuhito Ichii et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Seed Dispersal Distances and Plant Migration Potential in Tropical East Asia

(2009) Richard T. Corlett   BIOTROPICA

Responses of insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plant species to climate change in the forests of northeastern North America: What can we predict?This article is one of a selection of papers from NE Forests 2100: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Forests of the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada.

(2009) Jeffrey S. Dukes et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Plant developmental responses to the environment: eco-devo insights

(2009) Sonia E Sultan   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Fire-related traits for plant species of the Mediterranean Basin

(2009) S. Paula et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate change impacts, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of European forest ecosystems

(2009) Marcus Lindner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

(2009) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

An operational definition of epigenetics

(2009) S. L. Berger et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire

(2009) Mike D. Flannigan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought- and shade-tolerance

(2009) Lars Markesteijn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The velocity of climate change

(2009) Scott R. Loarie et al.   NATURE

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Influence of Forest Canopy and Snow on Microclimate in a Declining Yellow-Cedar Forest of Southeast Alaska

(2009) Paul E. Hennon et al.   NORTHWEST SCIENCE

Xylem hydraulic physiology: The functional backbone of terrestrial plant productivity

(2009) Timothy J. Brodribb   PLANT SCIENCE

Bet-hedging as an evolutionary game: the trade-off between egg size and number

(2009) M. Rees et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States

(2009) P. J. van Mantgem et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid change in adaptive performance from one generation to the next in Picea abies—Central European trees in a Nordic environment

(2009) Tore Skrøppa et al.   Tree Genetics & Genomes

Leaf and canopy conductance in aspen and aspen-birch forests under free-air enrichment of carbon dioxide and ozone

(2009) J. Uddling et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Hydraulic traits are influenced by phylogenetic history in the drought-resistant, invasive genus Juniperus (Cupressaceae)

(2008) Cynthia J. Willson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Shade Tolerance, a Key Plant Feature of Complex Nature and Consequences

(2008) Fernando Valladares et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species

(2008) Lourens Poorter et al.   BIOTROPICA

Population, quantitative and comparative genomics of adaptation in forest trees

(2008) David B Neale et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for tree populations

(2008) Sally N. Aitken et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Why is plant-growth response to elevated CO2amplified when water is limiting, but reduced when nitrogen is limiting? A growth-optimisation hypothesis

(2008) Ross E. McMurtrie et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Burning seeds: germinative response to heat treatments in relation to resprouting ability

(2008) S. Paula et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Survival of tree seedlings on different species of decaying wood maintains tree distribution in Michigan hemlock-hardwood forests

(2008) Laura Marx et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Testing the Holy Grail framework: using functional traits to predict ecosystem change

(2008) Katharine N. Suding et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genome size is a strong predictor of cell size and stomatal density in angiosperms

(2008) Jeremy M. Beaulieu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Understanding strategies for seed dispersal by wind under contrasting atmospheric conditions

(2008) S. J. Wright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Estimating potential habitat for 134 eastern US tree species under six climate scenarios

(2007) Louis R. Iverson et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses

(2007) P. GIENAPP et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges

(2007) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS