Tree ecophysiology in the context of climate change

doi:10.1007/s11676-023-01596-4

Abstract

Abstract:

Forest structure and function strongly depend on and concurrently influence environmental conditions. Tree performance is generally governed by its genetics and environment; thus, recent hotspots in this field include tree genotype × environment, phenotype × environment, and functional trait × environment interactions. The editorial, review, and 22 original research articles in this Special Issue, “Tree ecophysiology in the context of climate change”, highlight ecophysiological phenomena (e.g., climate hormesis, seed germination, tree mortality), processes (e.g., tree metabolism, photosynthate allocation, nutrient uptake and transport), indicators (e.g., carbon sequestration, pollutants), measurements (e.g., thermal time methods, soil quality indices, vegetation spectral index, and near-infrared leaf reflectance), and modeling (e.g., climate correlations with tree growth, photosynthetic phenology, hydraulic strategies, OliveCan model) in the context of global climate change. Understanding forest–environment interactions from an ecophysiological perspective as climate changes provides insights into species fitness in suboptimal environments, species competition for limited resources, and phylogenetic divergence or convergence of species, and predicting species distributions.

Key words: Tree ecophysiology, Climate change, Climate hormesis, Phenology, Thermostability, Forest resilience, Hydraulics

Yanbo Hu, Raul Antonio Sperotto, Georgios Koubouris, Srđan Stojnić, Nacer Bellaloui. Tree ecophysiology in the context of climate change[J]. JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH, 2023, 34(1): 1-5.

Yanbo Hu, Raul Antonio Sperotto, Georgios Koubouris, Srđan Stojnić, Nacer Bellaloui. [J]. 林业研究(英文版), 2023, 34(1): 1-5.

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