The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

JS Clark, L Iverson, CW Woodall, CD Allen… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize insights from current understanding of drought impacts at stand‐to‐
biogeographic scales, including management options, and we identify challenges to be …

Mechanisms of mast seeding: resources, weather, cues, and selection

IS Pearse, WD Koenig, D Kelly - New Phytologist, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mast seeding is a widespread and widely studied phenomenon. However, the physiological
mechanisms that mediate masting events and link them to weather and plant resources are …

Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects

N Ockendon, DJ Baker, JA Carr, EC White… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Shifts in species' distribution and abundance in response to climate change have been well
documented, but the underpinning processes are still poorly understood. We present the …

Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

J Peñuelas, J Sardans, M Estiarte… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We review the evidence of how organisms and populations are currently responding to
climate change through phenotypic plasticity, genotypic evolution, changes in distribution …

Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence

T Qiu, MC Aravena, R Andrus… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Despite its importance for forest regeneration, food webs, and human economies, changes
in tree fecundity with tree size and age remain largely unknown. The allometric increase with …

Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients

T Qiu, MC Aravena, D Ascoli, Y Bergeron… - Nature Plants, 2023 - nature.com
The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals)
include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen …

[HTML][HTML] Plant-soil interactions in Mediterranean forest and shrublands: impacts of climatic change

J Sardans, J Peñuelas - Plant and soil, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of
low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive traits that, in …

Climate change vulnerability assessment of species

WB Foden, BE Young, HR Akçakaya… - Wiley …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective
strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the …

Disentangling the relative importance of climate, size and competition on tree growth in Iberian forests: implications for forest management under global change

L GÓMEZ‐APARICIO… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Most large‐scale multispecies studies of tree growth have been conducted in tropical and
cool temperate forests, whereas Mediterranean water‐limited ecosystems have received …

Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change

A Hacket-Pain, M Bogdziewicz - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change is reshaping global vegetation through its impacts on plant mortality, but
recruitment creates the next generation of plants and will determine the structure and …