Global trends in phenotypic plasticity of plants

GC Stotz, C Salgado‐Luarte, VM Escobedo… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting plastic responses is crucial to assess plant species potential to adapt to climate
change, but little is known about which factors drive the biogeographical patterns of …

Review on the impact of urban geometry and pedestrian level greening on outdoor thermal comfort

E Jamei, P Rajagopalan, M Seyedmahmoudian… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The number of hot days is increasing in many parts of the world because of the heat island
phenomenon and global climate change. High air temperature greatly affects human …

Efficiency of parks in mitigating urban heat island effect: An example from Addis Ababa

GL Feyisa, K Dons, H Meilby - Landscape and urban planning, 2014 - Elsevier
Urban green infrastructure can to a certain extent mitigate urban warming. However, the
cooling effect of plants varies with space, time and plant-specific properties. To contribute to …

Importance of fluctuations in light on plant photosynthetic acclimation

S Vialet-Chabrand, JSA Matthews, AJ Simkin… - Plant …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The acclimation of plants to light has been studied extensively, yet little is known about the
effect of dynamic fluctuations in light on plant phenotype and acclimatory responses. We …

Role of blue and red light in stomatal dynamic behaviour

JSA Matthews, S Vialet-Chabrand… - Journal of experimental …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Plants experience changes in light intensity and quality due to variations in solar angle and
shading from clouds and overlapping leaves. Stomatal opening to increasing irradiance is …

A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review

E Garnier, ML Navas - Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2012 - Springer
Comparative functional ecology seeks to understand why and how ecological systems and
their components operate differently across environments. Although traditionally used in …

Fine root biomass, production, turnover rates, and nutrient contents in boreal forest ecosystems in relation to species, climate, fertility, and stand age: literature review …

ZY Yuan, HYH Chen - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Fine roots< 2 mm in diameter play a key role in regulating the biogeochemical cycles of
ecosystems and are important to our understanding of ecosystem responses to global …

Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

I Aubin, AD Munson, F Cardou, PJ Burton… - Environmental …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The integration of functional traits into vulnerability assessments is a promising approach to
quantitatively capture differences in species sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate …

Tree species classification from complex laser scanning data in Mediterranean forests using deep learning

MJ Allen, SWD Grieve, HJF Owen… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology have enabled the automatic
capture of three‐dimensional vegetation structure at high resolution, but the scalability of …

On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta‐analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted

A Gibert, EF Gray, M Westoby, IJ Wright… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A plant's growth rate is seen as a central element of its ecological strategy, and as
determined by its traits. Yet the literature is inconsistent about the empirical correlation …