Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

Temperate Deciduous Forests

Ecophysiological roles of abaxial anthocyanins in a perennial understorey herb from temperate deciduous forests

Accumulation of abaxial anthocyanins is an intriguing leaf trait particularly common among deeply shaded understorey plants of tropical and temperate forests whose ecological significance is still not properly understood. To shed light on it, possible ecophysiological roles of abaxial anthocyanins were tested in the perennial understorey herb of temperate deciduous forests Saxifraga hirsuta, ch...

Seasonal variability ofmultiple leaf traits captured by leaf spectroscopy at two temperate deciduous forests

a Department of Earth, Environment, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA b The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA c Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA d School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio Agricultural and Research Development Center, The Ohio State Univ...

Assessing temperature-based PET equations under a changing climate in temperate, deciduous forests

Despite the availability of numerous approaches to estimate potential evapotranspiration (PET ), temperature-based PET equations such as the Hamon equation and Thornthwaite equation are still used to predict changes in hydrology in a changing climate as temperature is one of the primary reported outputs from general circulation models. To isolate the actual dependence of PET on temperature, we ...

Convergence, Consilience, and the Evolution of Temperate Deciduous Forests.

The deciduous habit of northern temperate trees and shrubs provides one of the most obvious examples of convergent evolution, but how did it evolve? Hypotheses based on the fossil record posit that deciduousness evolved first in response to drought or darkness and preadapted certain lineages as cold climates spread. An alternative is that evergreens first established in freezing environments an...