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Adaptive Mechanisms of Tree Seedlings to Adapt to Stress—Second Edition
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Adaptive Mechanisms of Tree Seedlings to Adapt to Stress—Second Edition

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2024 | Viewed by 816

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Dr. Bo Liu

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College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
Interests: plant regeneration; ecological strategy; functional traits; restoration ecology; phenotypic plasticity
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Dr. Shaofei Jin

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College of Geography and Oceanography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Interests: forest ecology; climate change; silicon cycle; carnon cycle; plant–soil interaction
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Dr. Mulualem Tigabu

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Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 49, 23053 Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: regeneration; seedling physiology; light quality and quantity; seedling nutrition; seedling ecology
Dr. Jing Zhou

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College of Life Sciences, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China
Interests: janzen connell hypothesis; microbial functional flora; rhizosphere microorganisms; seeding regeneration; succession of microbial community
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

As the most critical stage throughout the plant life cycle, the seedling period plays a crucial role in forest community succession and vegetation restoration. Seedlings are vulnerable to biotic and abiotic stresses during their growth stage. Ongoing climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of stresses such as drought, flood, extreme temperature, and pest spread. In the long-term evolutionary process, tree seedlings have developed a set of adaptive mechanisms to deal with these stresses. Research on seedling growth mechanisms is helpful to understand and clarify ecological adaptation characteristics that ensure better growth and performance in the field. For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of all research that deals with the adaptation mechanisms of tree seedlings to biotic and abiotic stresses, highlighting their important roles in coping with stresses in forest ecosystems. Thus, this Special Issue aims to collate up-to-date research findings on various adaptive mechanisms of tree seedlings to stress. You are welcome to browse the first edition of this Special Issue, “Adaptive Mechanisms of Tree Seedlings to Adapt to Stress”, at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/8O38081R1J.

Potential topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptation mechanisms;
  • Natural regeneration of tree species;
  • Adaptation mechanism of understory seedlings to different light conditions;
  • Intraspecific and interspecific competition mechanisms between seedlings;
  • Microbial community succession and their interaction with seedling growth;
  • Soil microorganisms and tree seedling growth;
  • Effects of extreme climate events on tree seedling survival and growth;
  • Silicon, microplastic, and site preparation methods and tree seedling growth;
  • Heavy metals and tree seedling growth.

Dr. Bo Liu
Dr. Shaofei Jin
Dr. Mulualem Tigabu
Dr. Jing Zhou
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • adaptation
  • regeneration
  • seedlings
  • forest growth
  • climate change

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Effects of CO2 and Soil Moisture Treatments on Morphological and Allometric Trait Variation in Coppiced Seedlings: A Study of Four Early-Successional Deciduous Species
by Axel Brisebois and John E. Major
Forests 2024, 15(5), 856; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050856 - 14 May 2024
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Atmospheric CO2 levels have been increasing, and likewise, increasing drought events have been following increasing temperatures. There is very little literature on the effects of climate change factors on early-successional deciduous species used for ecological restoration. Thus, morphological and allometric variation in [...] Read more.
Atmospheric CO2 levels have been increasing, and likewise, increasing drought events have been following increasing temperatures. There is very little literature on the effects of climate change factors on early-successional deciduous species used for ecological restoration. Thus, morphological and allometric variation in four coppiced early-successional deciduous species was examined in response to a 2 × 2 factorial of ambient CO2 (aCO2, 400 ppm) and elevated CO2 (eCO2, 800 ppm), as well as well-watered and drought treatments with 15%–20% and 5%–10% volumetric moisture content, respectively, grown in sandy soil with low soil nitrogen (N) under greenhouse conditions. The four species examined were as follows: green alder (Alnus viridis subsp. crispa (Ait.) Turrill), speckled alder (A. incana subsp. rugosa (Du Roi) R.T. Clausen), gray birch (Betula populifolia (Marshall)), and white birch (B. papyrifera (Marshall)), and all are from the same phylogenetic family, Betulaceae. Genus differences in morphological and growth traits were large, especially in response to the environmental treatments used. Alders upregulated all growth traits under eCO2 because of the strong coppicing sink effect and the additional foliar N provided by the actinorhizal ability of the genus, whereas birches remained the same or slightly decreased under eCO2. As a result, alders have a significantly greater foliar N than birches, with 2.8 and 1.0%, respectively. All species reduced growth under drought, and green alder had the greatest stem dry mass growth, followed by speckled alder and then the birches. Under drought, eCO2 not only mitigated the alder drought dry mass but, in fact, doubled the stem dm, whereas eCO2 only just mitigated the birches drought response. When corrected for size using stem height, alders allocated more to stem and leaf and less to root dry mass than birches. Atmospheric CO2 and soil moisture treatments changed organ biomass allocation. The tallest stem height was the best predictor of total (above and below) dry mass. With increasing atmospheric CO2, particularly on low nutrient sites, the results show alders are capable of sequestering far more carbon than birches. In addition, with more atmospheric CO2, alders can mitigate against drought conditions better compared to birches. Full article
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The Influence of Minimal Cultivation Techniques on Growth Rate of Robinia pseudacacia L. Seedlings
by Cristina Drăghici, Ioan Vasile Abrudan, Adela Hoble, Raluca Enescu, Gheorghe Spârchez and Iacob Crăciunesc
Forests 2024, 15(5), 785; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15050785 - 29 Apr 2024
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The seed provenance, the type of substrate and its properties, as well as the watering regime in the first years after sowing are among the most important characteristics affecting the production of containerized seedlings. The objective of this study was to analyse the [...] Read more.
The seed provenance, the type of substrate and its properties, as well as the watering regime in the first years after sowing are among the most important characteristics affecting the production of containerized seedlings. The objective of this study was to analyse the growth of black locust (Robinia pseudacacia L.) seedlings on different types of substrate (six mineral and two organic) with different textures and pHs under three different regimes of available water content (no-limiting, medium drought, severe drought) over a period of five months (May–October 2023), using seeds from three sources located in the southeast, south, and west of Romania. The highest seedling emergence rate (73.7%) was obtained for the medium seeds with 18.492 g weight (1000 seed weighs) (Bucharest provenance). Direct sowing in the field and containerized seedlings both showed a trend of growing in height during unlimited water and of growing in diameter during low watering. The lowest survival rate of seedlings (86.7%) occurred in the mineral substrate in the case of rendzina with additional sand (pH 8.70), and for the organic substrate, the lowest survival rate (87.0%) occurred for the peat MKS 3 substrate (pH 4.54). Full article
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