Plant species of concern often occupy narrow habitat ranges, making climate change an outsized potential threat to their conservation and restoration. Understanding the physiological status of a species during stress has the potential to elucidate current risk and provide an outlook on population maintenance. However, the physiological status of a plant can be difficult to interpret without a reference point, such as the capacity to tolerate stress before loss of function, or mortality.
Leonie Schönbeck, Marc Arteaga, Humera Mirza & al, Conservation Physiology, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023, coad073, https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coad073
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