Bark is a vital and very visible part of woody plants, yet only recently has bark characteristics
started to be considered as key traits structuring communities and biomes. Bark thickness is …

Climatic gradients such as latitude and elevation are considered primary drivers of global
biogeography. Yet, alongside these macro‐gradients, the vertical space and structure …

Global variation in total bark thickness (TBT) is traditionally attributed to fire. However, bark
is multifunctional, as reflected by its inner living and outer dead regions, meaning that, in …

This review examines the roles that ray and axial parenchyma (RAP) plays against fungal
pathogens in the secondary xylem of wood within the context of the CODIT model …

Bark beetles face challenges and trade-offs during host selection, imposed by lethal tree
defences, lower nutrition and higher competition in less well-defended trees, scarcity and …

Woody debris (WD) represents a globally significant carbon stock and its decomposition
returns nutrients to the soil while providing habitat to microbes, plants and animals …

The performance of an organism in its environment frequently depends more on its
composite phenotype than on individual phenotypic traits. Thus, understanding …

As climates change, thermal limits may no longer constrain some native herbivores within
their historical ranges. The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, is a …

To date, the perspective of forest ecohydrologists has heavily focused on leaf-water
interactions–leaving the ecohydrological roles of bark under-studied, oversimplified, or …

The bark fulfils several essential functions in vascular plants and yields a wealth of raw
materials, but the understanding of bark structure and function strongly lags behind our …