Abstract The genus Tamarix comprises trees and shrubs that grow mainly in saline habitats. Previous phylogenetic analyses have shown incongruence between different gene trees, which suggest hybridization processes might been present the past. However, complex pattern of colonization Western Mediterranean region has yet to be understood, no dated phylogeny reconciles is currently available. obje...

Great variation in shape and size between primary (juvenile) secondary (adult) needles, so-called leaf-heteroblasty, occurs several Pinus species. Most of them loss needles during the juvenile-to-adult transition tree. An exception to this is canariensis (a Canary Islands endemism) which basal resprouting twigs adult trees frequently wear both needles. Taking advantage extraordinary study-case-...

Different studies have emphasized the influence of resin canal traits in susceptibility pine trees to wood nematode (PWN) Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. Resin canals can facilitate PWN migration through stem and are involved accumulation volatile terpenes xylem response pathogen, inducing tracheid embolisms. In this work, we conducted a inoculation experiment under greenhouse conditions investigat...

Global change challenges forest adaptability at the distributional limit of species. We studied ring-porous Quercus canariensis Willd. xylem traits to analyze how they adjust to spatio-temporal variability in climate. Trees were sampled along altitudinal transects, and annual time series of radial growth (ring width (RW)) and several earlywood vessel (EV) traits were built to analyze their rela...

Prescribed fires are a powerful tool for reducing fire hazards by decreasing amounts of fuel. The main objective is to analyze the effects of prescribed burning on the understory vegetation composition as well as on the soil characteristics of a reforested stand of Pinus canariensis. The study attempts to identify the effects of the preburning treatment of cutting understory vegetation on the f...

The paper reports on the breeding biology of the endemic subspecies of the Grey Wagtail in a human transformed area (banana plantations) on Tenerife (Canary Islands). Clutch size (3.96 ± 0.6) was lower than in continental zones, probably because of the climatic stability of the islands. Furthermore, the distance from the nest to the nearest water source and the length of the breeding season (la...