Physiological Response of Trees to Stress

Dear Colleagues,

One of the distinctive features of trees, especially forest trees, are the longevity of the tree species and distinct spatial arrangement of the tree crown. These characteristics are responsible for the strong relation between trees’ vitality, forest stability and permanent impacts of bio- and biotical environmental factors. It is possible to denominate forest trees as an important “bio- integrator” of both local and global environment. The responses of trees to stress can be found at different spatial and temporal levels, ranging from the subcellular reactions up to the stand and ecosystem levels. At the present time, particularly climate changes (the length of the growing season, changes in the character of its individual parts), more frequently occurring extreme climatic events (periods of drought, strong winds, abundance of the first/late frost) starting to be  a big problem. Moreover, these climate events have consequences for insect/fungi attacks. Thus, at present time, the climate changes are identified as extremely important environmental factors affecting the life of trees and thus the stability of forest stands with the consequences on the landscape scale. It is evident that this situation is a big challenge for research. Many problems must be investigated not only using an interdisciplinary approach, but on a dynamic scale. It is really novel and extremely important imperative for  current research orientation. We are under quite new a situation which requires complex and very “smart” approaches for achieving a deeper understanding of trees’ stress responses. Thus, encouraging intensive research, summarizing the current knowledge, and transferring the scientific achievements into praxis is of great importance.

Prof. Dr. Michal V. Marek
Guest Editor

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• extreme climatic events
• physiological process stress responses time-scale
• carbon sequestration and environmental stress
• drought and warm effects
• insects/fungi effects
• beetle outbreak
• forest fires, regeneration
• forest management