Weak global tradeโoff between frost and drought resistance in trees
Drought and frost stresses play important roles in determining species distributions, especially at range margins. Understanding how stress resistance traits interact to determine vulnerability to c...
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๐ณWe found a weak trade-off: drought resistant trees tend to be less frost-hardy & vice versa ๐ก๏ธ๐ฅโ๏ธ
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Living on the edge โ physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07528 #SDM #tolerance
Living on the edge โ physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07528 #SDM #tolerance
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@maxlarter.bsky.social @gkunstler.bsky.social @martin-stpaul.bsky.social Guillaume Charrier, Sylvain Delzon, Thomas Cordonnier
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Our approach shows the importance of physiological limits in understanding the limits of species distributions, particularly for frost and drought constraints in Europe.
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Finally, we demonstrated that our model was more transferable for predicting the distribution of a species without any distribution data than a model based solely on climate.
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When species experienced negative frost safety margins, the probability of presence fell drastically, whereas this phenomenon was less sensitive to drought safety margins.
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We built a distribution model based on the safety margins for frost and drought, which tests whether the probability of presence of species decreases when they cross their resistance threshold.
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We have collected frost (LT50) and drought (P50) resistance traits for 35 species in Europe and quantified the maximum physiological stress experienced by the species on a European scale. The distance between stress resistance and maximum stress defines a safety margin.
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Better linking distribution models with physiological mechanisms requires a balance between correlative and purely mechanistic approaches. The recent development of trait databases that quantify species' resistance to frost and drought opens a new avenue in this direction.
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Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science ๐งช disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" โ๏ธ
So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality?
We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary
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hey everyone! i made a list of some useful starter packs (primarily biology/earth sciences with a few bonus things thrown in) to share with friends who have joined bsky in the last week and thought it may be useful for some people here too! ๐๐งช #SciSky #BioSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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If it's still possible, I'd like to be added!
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