In this chapter, we review major classification schemes proposed for oaks by John Claudius
Loudon, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, William Trelease, Otto Karl Anton Schwarz, Aimée …

High-resolution palynological analysis on annually laminated sediments of Sihailongwan
Maar Lake (SHL) provides new insights into the Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics …

Aim To understand how functional traits and evolutionary history shape the geographic
distribution of plant life on Earth, we need to integrate high‐quality and global‐scale …

Combined variations of insolation and ice sheet led to major global climatic and ecosystem
changes between the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) and the Holocene. However, little is …

Across plant species, drought tolerance and distributions with respect to water availability
are strongly correlated with two physiological traits, the leaf water potential at wilting, that is …

In the semiarid Loess Plateau region of China, ecosystems are frequently affected by water
shortages. Late spring and early summer are periods when forest communities tend to suffer …

What determines large-scale patterns of species richness remains one of the most
controversial issues in ecology. Using the distribution maps of 11 405 woody species in …

Larch, a widely distributed tree in boreal Eurasia, is experiencing rapid warming across
much of its distribution. A comprehensive assessment of growth on warming is needed to …

When challenged by similar environmental conditions, phylogenetically distant taxa often
independently evolve similar traits (convergent evolution). Meanwhile, adaptation to extreme …

A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …