Ecological stress memory and cross stress tolerance in plants in the face of climate extremes

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 3-8

  Walter, Julia ^a   Jentsch, Anke ^a   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^a   Kreyling, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Ecological memory; Ecophysiology; Extreme events; Frost stress; Global warming; Heat stress

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; MAGNITUDE; STABILIZATION; TOLERANCE;

EID: 84881235867     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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