Dormancy is the mechanism that plants use to protect sensitive tissue from unfavourable
climatic conditions. In a changing global environment, temperate fruit crop adaptation might …

Temperate fruit and nut species require exposure to chilling conditions in winter to break
dormancy and produce high yields. Adequate winter chill is an important site characteristic …

Research on woody plant species highlights three major cues that shape spring
phenological events: chilling, forcing and photoperiod. Increasing research on the …

Stone fruit trees of genus Prunus, like other temperate woody species, need to accumulate a
cultivar-specific amount of chilling during endodormancy, and of heat during ecodormancy …

Background Temperate fruit and nut trees require adequate winter chill to produce
economically viable yields. Global warming has the potential to reduce available winter chill …

The onset of the growing season of trees has been earlier by 2.3 days per decade during the
last 40 years in temperate Europe because of global warming. The effect of temperature on …

The timing of spring phenology in most temperate zone plants results from the combined
effects of both autumn/winter cold and spring heat. Temperature increases in spring can …

Agroforestry (AF)-based adaptation to global climate change can consist of (1) reversal of
negative trends in diverse tree cover as generic portfolio risk management strategy;(2) …

Air temperatures play a major role on temperate fruit development, and the projected future
warming may thereby bring additional threats. The present study aims at analyzing the …

Many biological processes produce only one quantitative outcome per year, resulting from
temperatures and precipitation during hundreds of days leading up to the event. Traditional …