Tree Physiology publishes both reviews and original research reports on all aspects of physiology of trees, other woody species, and species of arborescent growth forms (a full list of topics can be found in our Instructions to Authors). Tree Physiology is a refereed journal distributed internationally.

Tree Physiology was founded in 1986 by Alfred Burdett and Rozanne Poulson of Heron Publishing. Under their management, the journal grew in both size and reputation to become one of the top-ranking journals in the field. Oxford Journals will continue to build on this solid foundation and ensure wider dissemination and further development of Tree Physiology.

Tree Physiology is now online only
Tree Physiology is an online-only publication beginning January 2018. Readers are guaranteed access to the most current versions of all articles at all times, and immediate access to the most recently published content via the Advance Access feature.

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Scope of the Journal
Tree Physiology promotes research in a framework of hierarchically organized systems, measuring insight by the ability to link adjacent layers: thus, investigated tree physiology phenomenon should seek mechanistic explanation in finer-scale phenomena as well as seek significance in larger scale phenomena (Passioura 1979). A phenomenon not linked downscale is merely descriptive; an observation not linked upscale, might be trivial. Physiologists often refer qualitatively to processes at finer or coarser scale than the scale of their observation, and studies formally directed at three, or even two adjacent scales are rare. To emphasize the importance of relating mechanisms to coarser scale function, Tree Physiology will highlight papers doing so particularly well as feature papers.

Tree Physiology welcomes submissions of manuscripts on research of non-tree woody and arborescent species (shrubs, vines, tree ferns, palms, bamboo). It invites submissions on new methods designed to improve estimates of quantities of structural components and flux of matter, energy and information relevant to the structure and the function of these species.

Tree Physiology also welcomes those manuscripts on genomics demonstrating a clear link and relevance to tree physiology.

Authors who prepared short, hard-hitting manuscripts are encouraged to submit them as Tree Physiology Letters that will be fast tracked through the review process with the help of the Review Board.

Editor-in-Chief
Janice Cooke
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2015 - present
Area of responsibility: Tree genomics, molecular physiology
Particular areas of interest: Dormancy, defense, responses to nitrogen availability.

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Associate Editors-In-Chief
Christophe Plomion
Director of Research Unit, UNRA-Bordeaux University, France
March 2017 - present
Area of responsibility: Genetics, genomics, tree physiology
Particular areas of interest: Genetics of adaptation in forest trees.
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Danielle Way
Professor, Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, Canada
2009 - present
Area of responsibility: Stress physiology, ecophysiology
Particular areas of interest: Photosynthesis, respiration, water transport, global change biology, acclimation.
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Managing Editor
Sari Palmroth
Associate Research Professor, Environmental Science and Policy Division, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Particular areas of interest: Canopy architecture, carbon uptake and allocation.
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Commentary Editor
Sanna Sevanto
Team Leader, Atmospheric, Climate and Ecosystem Science, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
2018 - present
Area of responsibility: Atmospheric, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences
Particular areas of interest: Climate-vegetation interactions, carbon-water cycling in ecosystems and trees, phloem transport, plant-soil interactions, plant responses to stress
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Review Editor
Andrea Polle
Full Professor, Forest Botany and Tree Physiology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany
2018 - present
Particular areas of Interest: Stress physiology, molecular biology, mycorrhizal interaction
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Statistics Editor
Song Qian
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, OH, USA
2013 - present
Particular areas of interest: Applications of statistics, especially Bayesian statistics in environmental and ecological studies

Editors
Marilyn C. Ball
Professor, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
2003 - present
Area of responsibility: Plant physiology, ecological physiology
Particular areas of interest: Salinity, mangroves, freezing tolerance, temperature stress, climate change.

Lucas Cernusak
Senior Lecturer, James Cook University, Terrestrial Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
2014 - present
Area of responsibility: Ecophysiology, stable isotopes
Particular areas of interest: Tropical tree responses to climate change.
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Daniel Epron
Professor, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France
2000 - present
Area of responsibility: Forest ecophysiology
Particular areas of interest: Tree and forest carbon budget, stable isotopes.
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Zhi-Bin Luo
Professor, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
2018 - present
Area of responsibility: Molecular Tree Physiology
Particular areas of interest: Heavy metal stress, responses to nutrient availability.
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Jordi Martínez-Vilalta
Associate Professor, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Researcher at CREAF, Barcelona, Spain
February 2017 - present
Area of responsibility: Water relations, stress physiology, and dendroecology
Particular areas of interest: Drought, forest dynamics, functional ecology, plant hydraulics, plasticity, water transport.
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Annikki Mäkelä
Professor, Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
2008 - present
Area of responsibility: Production ecology
Particular areas of interest: Tree growth, process models, wood quality.

Maurizio Mencuccini
ICREA Research Professor, CREAF, c/o Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Professor of Forest Science, MICFor, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK
2013 - present
Area of responsibility: Structure-function acclimation, crown architecture, xylem anatomy and hydraulics, carbon allocation
Particular areas of interest: Xylem and phloem transport in trees, ecosystem carbon, nutrient and water fluxes.

Frederick C. Meinzer
Senior Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USA
2000 - present
Area of responsibility: Water relations, water transport, hydraulic architecture, stomatal regulation of gas exchange, stress physiology, non-structural carbohydrates, stable isotopes
Particular areas of interest: Coordination and trade-offs among functional traits.
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Peter Millard
General Manager Science, Landcare Research, Christchurch, New Zealand
2002 - present
Area of responsibility: Ecophysiology, carbon isotope discrimination
Particular areas of interest: Soil respiration, plant carbon, and nutrient allocation.

Torgny Näsholm
Professor, Sveriges Iantbruksuniversitet, Umeå, Sweden
2009 - present
Area of responsibility: Mineral nutrition, nitrogen uptake and metabolism, stable isotopes
Particular areas of interest: Nitrogen deposition, organic nitrogen, amino acids, amino acid transporters, uptake mechanisms, molecular biology.

Ülo Niinemets
Professor and Chair, Department of Plant Physiology, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
2003 - present
Area of responsibility: Plant stress physiology
Particular areas of interest: Volatile emission, environmental adaptation, functional relationships among plant traits.
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Ram Oren
Nicholas Professor of Earth System Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
2003 - present
Area of responsibility: Water relations, controls of growth
Particular areas of interest: Tree and canopy water, carbon exchange response to spatio-temporal variation in atmospheric and soil.
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Heinz Rennenberg
Professor, the Institute of Forest Sciences of the University of Freiburg, Germany
2005 - present
Area of responsibility: Tree nutrition, Physiological and molecular ecology of trees
Particular areas of interest: Sulfur and nitrogen metabolism, stress physiology, phytoremediation, biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace gases

Michael G. Ryan
Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
2000 - present
Area of responsibility: Whole tree and ecosystem ecophysiology, carbon balance, autotrophic respiration, below ground partitioning
Particular areas of interest: Disturbance ecology, forest carbon cycle and climate change mitigation.
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Jörg-Peter Schnitzler
Director of Research Unit, Helholtz Zentrum, München, Germany
2011 - present
Area of responsibility: Photosynthesis, volatile organic compounds
Particular areas of interest: Tree stress physiology, biosynthesis and functions of volatile organic compounds, plant phenotyping, metabolomics, woody biomass production systems.
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Kathy Steppe
Associate professor, Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
2018 - present
Area of responsibility: ecophysiology, water relations, tree growth
Particular areas of interest: tree water/carbon flux and exchange responses to (extreme) climatic variations; climate change effects (elevated temperature and atmospheric CO2, drought) on tree physiology; sap flow; tree hydraulics; intern CO2 transport; plant sensors; mechanistic plant modelling; functional imaging
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Nathaniel Street
Associate professor, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
2018 - present
Area of responsibility: Bioinformatics
Particular areas of interest: Genomics, genome assembly, transcriptomics, natural variation, comparative genomics
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Sean Thomas
Research Chair, Forests and Environmental Change, and NSERC IRC in Biochar and Ecosystem Restoration, Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
2008 - present
Area of responsibility: Tree physiological ecology
Particular areas of interest: Allometry, tree mineral nutrition, tropical tree biology
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David T. Tissue
Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW, Australia
2003 - present
Area of responsibility: Carbon relations (photosynthesis and respiration)
Particular areas of interest: Tree response to climate change, particularly elevated CO2, drought and heatwaves.

Roberto Tognetti
Professor, Forest Ecology and Management, University of Molise, Pesche and Campobasso, Italy
2003 - present
Area of responsibility: Ecophysiology, water relations
Particular areas of interest: Mountain forestry, stress physiology, disturbance ecology.
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Chung-Jui Tsai
Professor, School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, USA
2011 - present
Area of responsibility: Molecular biology and genomics
Particular areas of interest: Molecular stress physiology, secondary metabolism, wood formation.
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David Whitehead
Scientist, Landcare Research and Adjunct Professor and University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2000 - present
Area of responsibility: Tree physiological ecology, carbon input and losses to/from ecosystems
Particular areas of interest: Carbon and nitrogen inputs and losses to/from ecosystems.

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Joe Stinziano
Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Particular areas of interest: Physiological mechanisms underlying photosynthetic responses to environmental change.
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