Above a certain trauma threshold, male trees had a high probability of becoming female, possibly in a bid to better their chances at reproduction.
Tag - mortality
Erin Zimmerman
Seedling responses to salinity of 26 Neotropical tree species
How will coastal ecosystems change when some seedling can tolerate rising tides, and others cannot?
William Salter
Patterns of sex expression, health and mortality in a sex-changing tree
The ability of individuals to change sex during their lifetime is known as environmental sex determination (ESD). This ability represents a unique life history trait, allowing plants to allocate resources differentially...
Alex Assiry
Virus gives light a dark side
What is it that causes a virus to replicate? A team studying Coccolithovirus in algae found light was a crucial element in reproduction.
Alun Salt
Mitigating effects of well-timed rainfall on plant mortality
Global warming accelerates plant water use, increasing plant susceptibility to drought death. From this, it can be hypothesised that higher CO2 concentrations slow plant water use, and should offset the warming effects...
botanyone
What sets apart individual trees that died versus trees that survived an extreme drought?
Plant responses to drought involve multiple interacting traits and processes, which complicates predictions about which plants will die and which will survive. Species are often characterized by species-specific...
Danielle Marias
Water stress, xylem hydraulic failure and tree death
The results of this study demonstrate that massive cavitation is probably a causal factor for tree mortality under extreme water stress conditions.
