Climate Change and Stress Factors on Forest Vegetation: Regulation of Morphological, Physiological and Molecular Characteristics
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 25
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Interests: abiotic stress; salinization; photosynthesis; phytohormones; molecular biology; plant stress physiology; signaling molecules; beneficial elements; plant anatomy and cell ultrastructure
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests comprise a vertical mosaic of trees, shrubs, lianas, herbs, bryophytes and epiphytes, whose survival now hinges on their capacity to regulate morphological, physiological and molecular networks under unprecedented climatic volatility—rising temperatures, hydrological extremes, elevated CO₂, nutrient deposition and novel pollutants.
This Special Issue, “Climate Change and Stress Factors on Forest Vegetation: Regulation of Morphological, Physiological and Molecular Characteristics,” seeks mechanistic studies that investigate how forest plants perceive and integrate these stressors to remodel their structural architecture, coordinate hydraulic and photosynthetic performance, and reprogram transcriptional, epigenetic, proteomic and metabolic pathways.
Submissions from forest ecophysiology, functional genomics, molecular ecology, systems biology, plant–microbe interaction research and vegetation–climate modelling are welcome, particularly those coupling field or controlled-environment experiments with high-resolution imaging, multi-omics, isotope tracing, genetics or network inference to reveal causal links between stress factors and trait regulation across organizational scales and to clarify how individual-level adjustments cascade to population fitness, community turnover, biogeochemical cycling and forest–atmosphere feedbacks.
By collating such integrative work, the Special Issue aims to delineate the regulatory blueprints that govern forests’ resilience or vulnerability, providing actionable insights for adaptive silviculture, conservation genetics and predictive Earth-system models in a rapidly changing world
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Abou El-Yazied
Dr. Yanqun Xu
Prof. Dr. Mohamed F.M Ibrahim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- forest vegetation
- global warming
- stomatal conductance
- carbon dioxide
- shading
- environmental stress
- morphological and physiological adaptations
- photosynthesis
- plant signaling
- senescence and aging
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