Functional traits and adaptive capacity of European forests to climate change

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 111, Issue , 2015, Pages 91-113

  Bussotti, Filippo ^a   Pollastrini, Martina ^a   Holland, Vera ^b,c   Brüggemann, Wolfgang ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Extinction; Functional traits; Local evolution; Migration; Phenotypic plasticity; Phenotyping; Provenances

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DROUGHT STRESS; EXTINCTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GENOTYPE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84911933594     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2014.11.006     Document Type: Review

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