LAANISTO , Lauri

Interacting abiotic stresses exert a fundamental selective pressure on the adaptive syndromes of long-living organisms such as woody plants. However, general patterns and mechanisms describing woody plant adaptations to tolerate multiple abiotic stressors are yet to emerge. This hampers our ability to build predictive frameworks foreseeing...

Aim: Trade-offs among tolerances to different abiotic stressors limit polytolerance in woody plants. However, the general trait syndromes that underlie large-scale toler-ance patterns of woody plants remain controversial. Here, we tested if the leading trait dimensions that define the global spectrum of plant form and function capture the...