The global demand for wood is rising and projected to increase by between 1.3 % and 1.8 % up to 2030. This increased demand can only be satisfied by plantation forests and the challenge is to intensify the productivity of such forests in a sustainable and resilient manner. This means using our best understanding of forest ecosystems to design manag...
Background: Understanding how trees respond to drought is critical to forecasting both short and long-term impacts of climate change on forests. The isotopic ratio of C-13 to C-12 stored in wood - referred to as delta C-13 - is widely used as an indicator of plant water status. Yet whether changes in delta C-13 linked to drought are also associated...
Modeling studies predict that global warming might severely affect bud dormancy release. However, growing empirical evidences suggest that long photoperiod might compensate for a lack of chilling temperature in photosensitive species. For now, attempts to integrate this effect into models remain limited. Here, we used French budburst phenological r...
Biomass and leaf area equations are often required to assess or model forest productivity, carbon stocks and other ecosystem services.These factors are influenced by climate, age and stand structural attributes including stand density and tree species diversity or species composition. However, such covariates are rarely included in biomass and leaf...
Published in European Journal of Forest Research
Based on macroecological data, we test the hypothesis whether European tree species of temperate and boreal distribution maintain their water and nutrient supply in the more arid southern margin of their distribution range by shifting to more fertile soils with higher water storage than in their humid core distribution range (cf. soil compensatory ...
Demographic and evolutionary history of the European black pine (Pinus nigra Arn). Réunion du groupe AFORGEN
Silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) is a keystone conifer of European montane forest ecosystems that has experienced large fluctuations in population size during during the Quaternary and, more recently, due to land-use change. To forecast the species' future distribution and survival, it is important to investigate the genetic basis of adaptation to env...
