Abstract Modelling of climate-driven range shifts commonly treats species as ecologically homogeneous units. However, many show intraspecific variation climatic niches and theory predicts that such may lead to counterintuitive eco-evolutionary dynamics. Here, we incorporate assumed niche into a dynamic model explore possible consequences for six high-mountain plant the European Alps under scena...

Acute cold stress induces suppressor macrophages expressing large numbers of receptors to the crystallizable fragment (Fc) portion of immunoglobulin G (MAC-1+ FcgammaRII/IIIbright cells), resulting in the immunosuppression of splenocyte mitogenesis. The generation of MAC-1+ FcgammaRII/IIIbright cells is mediated by the action of glucocorticoids (GCs) through the GC-receptor. In the present stud...

Previous studies have reported about the changes in thermoregulatory responses due to cold adaptation, and several types of cold adaptation (insulative, metabolic and hypothermic adaptation) have been described (Bittel, 1987; Tipton et al., 2008). The differences in cold exposure and physical characteristics have been considered as the factors affecting different types of adaptation. However it...

Temperature variations impact on the balance between photosynthetic electron transport and electron-consuming assimilation reactions and transiently increase generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Previous studies demonstrated that the expression of C-repeat binding factors (CBFs), which activate cold acclimation reactions, respond to chloroplast ROS signals and that cold deacclimation is...