Cork oak has historically been an important species in the western Mediterranean—
ecologically as a canopy or “framework” tree in natural woodlands, and culturally as an …

The objective of the study was to analyse to which extent horizontal crown plasticity reduces
inter-tree competition at stand scale, and how it relates to species growth strategy. Two …

The growth behavior of coexisting tree species under climate change is important from an
ecological, silvicultural and economic perspective. While many previous studies are …

Conifers are evolutionarily more ancient than their angiosperm counterparts, and thus some
adaptive mechanisms and features influenced by epigenetic mechanisms appear more …

The timing of foliar budburst is an important component of the fitness of trees. Adaptation of
budburst to local temperatures and phenotypic plasticity in the date of budburst to changes …

A plastic response towards enhanced reproduction is expected in stressful environments,
but it is assumed to trade off against vegetative growth and efficiency in the use of available …

Introduction The annual development cycle of boreal and temperate trees results from an
evolutionary trade-off between two opposing forces. These are namely, the adjustment of …

In this study, we combined the analysis of a coenocline with Huisman–Olff–Fresco (HOF)
modelling of species behaviour to describe colonization patterns of woody species on …

The evaluation of the diversity of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) populations and the reproductive
traits of the trees are of great importance for the conservation of genetic resources and forest …

The purpose of this review is to examine a few aspects of global change effects on forest
genetic resources and their interaction. Genetic resources can provide many opportunities …