<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Camarero, Jesús Julio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Olano, José Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arroyo Alfaro, Sandra Jackeline</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fernández-Marín, Beatriz</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Becerril, José Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">García-Plazaola, José Ignacio</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photoprotection mechanisms in Quercus ilex under contrasting climatic conditions</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ecotypes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Holm oak</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">photoprotection</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Trichomes</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0367253012000783</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">207</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">557 - 564</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Acclimation to local conditions may produce adaptive responses in plants subjected to diverse climatic stresses. However, it has not been assessed how local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity contribute to photoprotection mechanisms in response to contrasting climatic conditions in Mediterranean tree species. We analyzed photoprotectionmechanisms inmature trees oftheMediterranean evergreen oak Quercus ilex at three sites with contrasting climatic conditions, i.e. xeric, continental and mesic sites. We studied morphological and physiological parameters indicative of photoprotection in adult trees in the ﬁeld. In order to establish whether these parameters were genetically determined we compared adults with seedlings germinated from acorns of the three sites and grown under common greenhouse conditions. In the ﬁeld we found no signiﬁcant differences in most of the physiological parameters in summer, but in winter the adulttrees fromthe continental site were photoinhibited. In contrast,there were signiﬁcant differences between seedlings in most photoprotective parameters evaluated. Morphological traits such as trichome density and leaf reﬂectance differed between populations, both in ﬁeld-grown trees and in greenhouse-grown seedlings, being higher in all cases in plants from the xeric site than elsewhere. Our ﬁndings suggest the existence of constitutive differences in leaf photoprotection mechanisms among Q. ilex populations. These divergences may represent an inherent source for more stress tolerant ecotypes in the face of changing climatic conditions.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Elsevier GmbH.</style></notes></record></records></xml>