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Plant physiological traits can offer key insights into plant performance under climate change, calling for their increased use to inform restoration via species selection and monitoring. Increased co...

Climate change is putting forests at risk. Our research shows that a tree's water-use strategy largely determines its growth across years: whereas one strategy performs better in normal years, the ot....

Join us for one of Europe’s leading ecological conferences, where scientists, students, and professionals from across the Nordic countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland come together to explore t...

It is autumn, when the trees go to sleep. Right? Not quite. This time of year is a very busy one in the life of a temperate tree. Yes, they are preparing for the dormant season by carefully moving nu...

Stephen Hales was born on this day in 1677. He is a towering figure as a scientist, and the founder of plant physiology, my discipline. He applied the principles of Newtonian physics to study fluid f...

The relationship between tree carbon (C) assimilation and growth is central to understanding tree functioning and forecasting forest C sequestration, yet remains unresolved. The long-standing debate ...

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a fully funded four-year PhD position in alpine and arctic pla...

Negative book reviews are great fun to read. There’s a dark delight to be found in a comprehensive take-down of a book, especially if you side with the reviewer. The Schadenfreude is even mor…

Tree mortality is increasing due to droughts and other climate change-related stressors, but isolating climate signals for tree mortality is challenging. Here, the authors assemble a geo-referenced gl...

Scientific Reports - Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population

An experiment in the Daintree rainforest found the rate of photosynthesis in leaves warmed by 4°C dropped by an average of 35% compared to non-warmed controls.

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