The Effects of Invasive and Exotic Plants on Forests
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2017) | Viewed by 14252
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the impacts of global changes on forests is one of the main challenges we are currently facing. Climate change has profound impacts on ecosystem function and biodiversity that are not fully understood, although tree distribution changes, local extinction of temperate tree species and the expansion of Mediterranean species were evidenced in response to current climate changes. Simultaneously to climate change, some tree species, introduced several centuries ago, became invasive and now largely contribute to the composition and functioning of local forests. Jointly to these patterns of change due to invasive species and climate change, we need to deepen our understanding of the physiological and genetic processes that underlie tree species adaptive capacities in order to evaluate the future changes in forests composition, production and functioning. We welcome all studies that aim at understanding the impacts of exotic or invasive trees on forest biodiversity and functioning from a local to a global scale, as well as comparative evaluation of native, exotic and invasive trees, at the species and infra-specific level in order to characterize the role of plasticity and/or genetic adaptation to invasiveness. Management-oriented studies are also welcome.
Dr. Annabel J. Porté
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Tree ecophysiology
- Quantitative genetics
- Invasive trees
- Species distribution
- Impacts of climate change
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