Publications by authors named "P De Ruffray"
Biodiversity changes are lagging behind current climate warming. The underlying determinants of this climatic debt are unknown and yet critical to understand the impacts of climate change on the present biota and improve forecasts of biodiversity changes. Here we assess determinants of climatic debt accumulated in French forest herbaceous plant communities between 1987 and 2008 (that is, a 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNtRING1 is a RING-finger protein with a putative E3 ligase activity. NtRING1 regulates HR establishment against different pathogens. Loss-/gain-of-function of NtRING1 altered early stages of HR phenotype establishment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe application of the criterion of fidelity of plants to plants over four millions botanical observations in France is considered to characterize the ecology of 215,000 phytosociological surveys. Among those discriminant plants, some are missing of the surveys, but they can have a certain probability of occurrence: these plants are called "probable plants" and they represent the "probable flora" of a territory. The study of their geographical distribution shows ecological gradients of flora across France in a better way than only considering the botanical observations.
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- Climate change is causing shifts in where species live, resulting in new combinations of species, with plants and animals responding differently over time.
- In a study of plant communities in France from 1965 to 2008, researchers found that forest plants in highland areas have adapted better to rising temperatures compared to those in lowland areas.
- The slower response of lowland forests is attributed to factors like their species' ability to persist in changing climates, limited options for moving to cooler areas, and habitat fragmentation, raising concerns about the long-term survival of these ecosystems.