Oaks Physiological Ecology. Exploring the Functional Diversity of Genus Quercus L.

Genus Quercus L. (oaks) comprises ca. 400 tree and shrub species with an outstanding role in the vegetation of the Northern Hemisphere. This genus has been culturally and economically linked to humans since millennia. Oaks can be found in very different p

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Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín José Javier Peguero-Pina Domingo Sancho-Knapik Editors

Oaks Physiological Ecology. Exploring the Functional Diversity of Genus Quercus L.

Tree Physiology Volume 7

Series editors Frederick C. Meinzer, Corvallis, USA Ülo Niinemets, Tartu, Estonia

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6644

Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín José Javier Peguero-Pina Domingo Sancho-Knapik •

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Oaks Physiological Ecology. Exploring the Functional Diversity of Genus Quercus L.

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Editors Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín Unit of Forest Resources Agrifood Research and Technology Centre Aragón, Zaragoza Spain

Domingo Sancho-Knapik Unit of Forest Resources Agrifood Research and Technology Centre Aragón, Zaragoza Spain

José Javier Peguero-Pina Unit of Forest Resources Agrifood Research and Technology Centre Aragón, Zaragoza Spain

ISSN 1568-2544 Tree Physiology ISBN 978-3-319-69098-8 ISBN 978-3-319-69099-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69099-5

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Contents

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Oaks and People: A Long Journey Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín, José Javier Peguero-Pina and Domingo Sancho-Knapik

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An Updated Infrageneric Classification of the Oaks: Review of Previous Taxonomic Schemes and Synthesis of Evolutionary Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Denk, Guido W. Grimm, Paul S. Manos, Min Deng and Andrew L. Hipp

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The Fossil History of Quercus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eduardo