Effect of climate warming on the timing of autumn leaf senescence reverses after the summer solstice

CM Zohner, L Mirzagholi, SS Renner, L Mo… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Climate change is shifting the growing seasons of plants, affecting species performance and
biogeochemical cycles. Yet how the timing of autumn leaf senescence in Northern …

Number of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities

B Speißer, RA Wilschut, M Van Kleunen - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Plant communities experience impacts of increasing numbers of global change factors (eg,
warming, eutrophication, pollution). Consequently, unpredictable global change effects …

The potential for an increasing threat of unseasonal temperature cycles to dormant plants

AP Kovaleski - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Two functional responses largely guide woody plants' survival to winter conditions: cold
hardiness and dormancy. Dormancy affects budbreak timing based on chill accumulation …

Is a seasonally reduced growth potential a convergent strategy to survive drought and frost in plants?

F Volaire, K Barkaoui, D Grémillet, G Charrier… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Plants have adapted to survive seasonal life-threatening frost and drought.
However, the timing and frequency of such events are impacted by climate change …

Warming may extend tree growing seasons and compensate for reduced carbon uptake during dry periods

C Grossiord, C Bachofen, J Gisler, E Mas… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Warming and drought alter plant phenology, photosynthesis and growth with important
consequences for the global carbon cycle and the earth's climate. Yet, few studies have …

Effects of climate change on Platanus flowering in Western Mediterranean cities: Current trends and future projections

A Picornell, JM Maya-Manzano… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ornamental trees can reduce some of the negative impacts of urbanization on citizens but
some species, such as Platanus spp., produce pollen with high allergenic potential. This can …

Drivers of decadal carbon fluxes across temperate ecosystems

AR Desai, BA Murphy, S Wiesner… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐running eddy covariance flux towers provide insights into how the terrestrial carbon
cycle operates over multiple timescales. Here, we evaluated variation in net ecosystem …

Winter warming offsets one half of the spring warming effects on leaf unfolding

H Wang, J Dai, J Peñuelas, Q Ge, YH Fu… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Winter temperature‐related chilling and spring temperature‐related forcing are two major
environmental cues shaping the leaf‐out date of temperate species. To what degree …

Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America

TH Ramirez-Parada, IW Park, S Record… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Phenology varies widely over space and time because of its sensitivity to climate. However,
whether phenological variation is primarily generated by rapid organismal responses …

Climatic drivers and ecological implications of variation in the time interval between leaf-out and flowering

L Guo, X Liu, JM Alatalo, C Wang, J Xu, H Yu, J Chen… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Leaf-out and flowering in any given species have evolved to occur in a predetermined
sequence, with the inter-stage time interval optimized to maximize plant fitness. Although …