Greenhouse gas emissions have significantly altered global climate, and will continue to do
so in the future. Increases in the frequency, duration, and/or severity of drought and heat …

Hydraulic failure is one of the main causes of tree mortality in conditions of severe drought.
Resistance to cavitation is known to be strongly related to drought tolerance and species …

Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally
consistent effects on individual plant physiological functions,,, but how these effects scale up …

Global mean temperature is predicted to increase by 2–7° C and precipitation to change
across the globe by the end of this century. To quantify climate effects on ecosystem …

Question Are plant traits more closely correlated with mean annual temperature, or with
mean annual precipitation? Location Global. Methods We quantified the strength of the …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Aim To assess the extent to which climate change might cause changes in potential natural
vegetation (PNV) across Europe. Location Europe. Method We parameterized a generalized …

We review the evidence of how organisms and populations are currently responding to
climate change through phenotypic plasticity, genotypic evolution, changes in distribution …

Today, climate change is assumed by many researchers and scholars as a certainty and is
presented as the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced. It is commonly accepted that …