Publications by authors named "M Klisz"
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- A new database has been created for European vascular plants, compiling red list categories from conservation assessments across multiple countries, aiming to support European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action 18201, ConservePlants.
- Version 1.0 features 51,109 records that include 21,481 original taxonomic names from 42 red lists representing 41 countries and two Mediterranean nations.
- This resource harmonizes data by standardizing 20,312 taxonomic names into 17,873 unique accepted names across a range of families and species, categorizing them into 13 red list groups to aid various stakeholders in plant conservation efforts.
Local adaptation may facilitate range expansion during invasions, but the mechanisms promoting destructive invasions remain unclear. Cheatgrass (), native to Eurasia and Africa, has invaded globally, with particularly severe impacts in western North America. We sequenced 307 genotypes and conducted controlled experiments.
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- - The study emphasizes the importance of high-resolution annual forest growth maps, using tree-ring width (TRW) data, to better understand forest carbon sequestration and the impact of climate change and drought on forest ecosystems.
- - By integrating high-resolution Earth observation data with climate and topography information, the researchers found that species-specific models could explain over 52% of variance in tree growth, enhancing the accuracy of growth predictions compared to using just climate and elevation data.
- - The research successfully generated a map of annual TRW for 2021, demonstrating that combining different data sources can lead to more effective models for forest growth, while also identifying areas where predictions may be less reliable, particularly in climate marginal zones.
Many phenological studies have shown that spring geophytes are very sensitive to climate change, responding by shifting flowering and fruiting dates. However, there is a gap in knowledge about climatic drivers of their distributions and range shifts under climate change. Here we aimed to estimate climate niche shifts for four widely distributed and common geophytes of the nemoral zone of Europe (Anemone nemorosa, Anemone ranunculoides, Convallaria majalis and Maianthemum bifolium) and to assess the threat level under various climate change scenarios.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntra-Annual Density Fluctuations (IADFs) are an important wood functional trait that determine trees' ability to adapt to climatic changes. Here, we use a large tree-ring database of 11 species from 89 sites across eight European countries, covering a climatic gradient from the Mediterranean to northern Europe, to analyze how climate variations drive IADF formation. We found that IADF occurrence increases nonlinearly with ring width in both gymnosperms and angiosperms and decreases with altitude and age.
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