Oak leaf morphology may be more strongly shaped by climate than by phylogeny

Oak leaf morphology may be more strongly shaped by climate than by phylogeny

Abstract Key message Despite been grown under the same climate, oak species are able to correlate with looser, but still identifiable, leaf morphological syndromes, composed by morphological traits with an ecological role in their respective macroclimates. Context Environmental restrictions imposed...

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Main Authors: Rubén Martín-Sánchez, Domingo Sancho-Knapik, David Alonso-Forn, Ana López-Ballesteros, Juan Pedro Ferrio, Andrew L. Hipp, José Javier Peguero-Pina, Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-03-01
Series:Annals of Forest Science
Subjects:
Quercus
Macroclimate
Functional traits
Factor Analysis of Mixed Data
Leaf syndrome
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-024-01232-z

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-024-01232-z

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