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TAXONOMY

Literature for Acer

Selected Bibliography

  • ​Maples of the World, Timber Press, 1994. By D.M van Gelderen, P.C. de Jong, H.J. Oterdoom.

  • Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1981. By W.J. Bean, 8th edition, 4 vols.,

  • New Trees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2009. By John Grimshaw and Ross Bayton.

  • An Illustrated Guide to Maples, Timber Press, 2003. By Antoine le Hardy de Beaulieu.

  • Maples for Gardens, Timber Press, 1999. By C.J. van Gelderen and D.M. van Gelderen.

  • Book for Maples, Japan Publishing Group, 2003. Masayoshi Yano.

  • A Gardener’s Guide to Growing Maples, Timber Press, 2000. By James G.S. Harris.

  • Ahorne, Ulmer, 1994. By Helmut Pirc (in German). Also available in French, translated by Pascale Adeline.

  • North American Landscape Trees, Tenspeed Press, 1996. By Arthur Lee Jacobson.

  • Dirr’s Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs, Timber Press, 2011. By Michael A. Dirr.

  • Flora of China (online)

  • Trees and Shrubs Online (IDS) is an online and up-to-date version of Bean (1981).

  • Flora of Pakistan (online)

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Acer Profiles by Peter Gregory

The articles listed below have been originally published in the Maple Society Newsletter. They include detailed descriptions of maple species prepared by Peter Gregory. Italian, French and Polish versions available for some of the species are listed alongside the originals.

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Maple profile: Acer davidii, English version.

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Maple profile: Acer henry, English version.

Various Articles

Here we group together links to papers that may be of interest to botanists, dendrologists, and maple enthusiasts. 

If you have a paper you think would be of interest here, or find a link with a problem — e.g. it doesn’t work or you can’t access the paper without paying or subscribing — please contact v_karaman_castro@maplesociety.org.  If you own the copyright of a paper and don’t want it listed here, let us know and we’ll take the link down. The list is continuously updated to include latest publications with free access. The papers are arranged chronologically.

Flowering and sex expression in Acer L., a biosystematic study, de Jong, 1976

 

Leaf size, sapling allometry, and Corner's rules: Phylogeny and correlated evolution in maples (Acer), Ackerly & Donoghue, 1998

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Phylogenetic relationships of maples (Acer L.; Aceraceae) implied by nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences, Suh et al., 1998

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Flood-tolerance ranking of red and Freeman maple cultivars, Anella  &  Whitlow, 1999

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Phylogeny of Aceraceae based on ITS and trnL-F data sets, Tian et al., 2000

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Worldwide Maple Diversity, Piet C. de Jong, 2002 (Originally published in The Proceedings of The International Maple Symposium, 2002. This is the first ever digital edition of this important and frequently referenced paper, which updated the Acer classification presented by de Jong in Maples of the World in 1996, and remains pertinent today.)

 

Culture and propagation of Japanese maples, Phillips, Virginia Polytechnic, 2003

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Sex change towards female in dying Acer rufinerve trees, Nanami et al., 2004

 

A nuclear ribosomal DNA phylogeny of Acer inferred with maximum likelihood, splits graphs and motif analysis of 606 sequences, Grimm et al., 2006

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The evolution of dioecy, heterodichogamy, and labile sex expression in Acer, Renner et al., 2007

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Phylgenetics of Acer (Aceroideae, Sapindaceae) based on nucleotide sequences of two chloroplast non-coding regions, Li et al., 2008

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Maples of Europe Part I, Banaszczak, 2010

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Maples of Europe Part II, Banaszczak, 2010

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Phylogeny and circumscription of Sapindaceae revisited: molecular sequence data, morphology and biogeography support recognition of a new family, Xanthoceraceae, Buerki et al., 2010

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Acer acuminatilobum J. Papp (1958) Matra-ancient maple, Bartha et al., 2011

 

A reappraisal of the Acer wilsonii complex and related species in China, Eom et al., 2011

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Remnant sugar maple (Acer saccharum subsp. skutchii) populations at their range edge: Characteristics, environmental constraints and conservation implications in tropical America, Vargas-Rodriguez & Platt, 2012

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The Evolution of the Reproductive Organs of Maples; Analyses of Morphology and Flowering in Light of the Phylogeny of the Genus, P.C. de Jong, 2014. (This lecture originally presented in 2014 at the International Maple Symposium at the Morris Arboretum, considers both the evolution of maple flowers and fruit and the often conflicting ramifications of molecular studies of Acer, following the author’s seminal 2002 classification in Worldwide Maple Diversity.)

 

Some things you probably didn’t know about bootstrap, Morrison, 2014 (This blog entry is useful in understanding some of the statistical issues in phylogenetic analysis).

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The Colchic region as refuge for relict tree lineages: Cryptic speciation in field maples, Grimm & Denk, 2014

 

Evolutionary history of a widespread tree species Acer mono in East Asia, Guo et al., 2014

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Gene expressing and sRNA sequencing show that gene differentiation associates with a yellow Acer palmatum mutant leaf in different light conditions, Li et al., 2015

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Large scale patterns of genetic variation and differentiation in sugar maple from tropical Central America to temperate North America, Vargas-Rodriguez et al., 2015

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Flower development of different genders in the morphologically andromonoecious but functionally monoecious plant Acer elegantulum Fang et P. L. Chiu, Luo et al., 2017

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Acer binzayedii (Sapindaceae), a new maple species from Mexico, Vargas-Rodriguez et al., 2017

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Maple phylogeny and biogeography inferred from phylogenomic data, Li et al., 2019

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Model maples, Grossman, 2020

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Taxonomy and phylogenetic insights for Mexican and Central American species of Acer (Sapindaceae), Vargas-Rodriguez et al., 2020

 

Genome-wide supermatrix analysis of maples (Acer: Sapindaceae) reveal recurring inter-continental migration, mass extinction, and rapid lineage divergence, Areces-Berazain et al., 2021

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Evidence of constrained divergence and conservatism in climatic niches of the temperate maples (Acer L.),

Grossman, 2021

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Strategies of tolerance reflected in two North American maple genomes, McEvoy et al., 2021

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Genetic variation of the relict maple Acer miyabei: uncovering its history of disjunct occurrence and the role of mountain refugia in shaping genetic diversity, Saeki et al., 2021

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Observed and predicted geographic distribution of Acer monspessulanum L. using the MaxEnt model in the context of climate change, Aouinti et al., 2022

 

Climate change influences foliar nutrition and metabolism of red maple (Acer rubrum) trees in a northern hardwood forest, Blagden et al., 2022

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Exposure to strong irradiance exacerbates photoinhibition and suppresses N resorption during leaf senescence in shade-grown seedlings of fullmoon maple (Acer japonicum), Kitao et al., 2022

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Rapid mixed forest encroachment and the expansion of red maple (Acer rubrum) in a peatland: a dendroecological and paleoecological approach, Lavoie et al., 2022

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Integrated conservation of Acer yangbiense: A case study for conservation methods of plant species with extremely small populations, Yang et al., 2022

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Genetic structure and trait variation within a maple hybrid zone underscore North China as an overlooked diversity hotspot, Yang et al., 2022

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A northward range shift of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) in Eastern Canada should reduce soil carbon storage, with no effect on carbon stability, Boilard et al., 2023

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Indicators of adaptability of representatives of the genus Acer in an urban environment, Chernyavskaya et al., 2023

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Mechanisms involved in alien maples (Acer sp.) invasion process in the Central Europe. Testing hypotheses associated with species fitness, Ferus, 2023

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Distributional responses to climate change of two maple species in southern China, Liu et al., 2023

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Integrative transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis reveals the molecular mechanism of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) leaf coloring, Luo et al., 2023

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Transcriptome profiling, physiological, and biochemical analyses provide new insights towards drought stress response in sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marshall) saplings, Mulozi et al., 2023

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Screening for drought resistance among ornamental maples (Acer sp.). A field experiment in juvenile plants, Oravec et al., 2023

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Postglacial establishment and expansion of marginal populations of sugar maple in western Québec, Canada: Palynological detection and interactions with fire, climate and successional processes, Paillard et al., 2023

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Continental-wide population genetics and post-Pleistocene range expansion in field maple (Acer campestre L.), a subdominant temperate broadleaved tree species, Wahlsteen et al., 2023

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Plasticity plays a dominant role in regulating the phenological variations of sugar maple populations in Canada, Xiali et al., 2023

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Integrated conservation of Acer yangbiense: A case study for conservation methods of plant species with extremely small populations, Yang et al., 2023

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Patterns of leaf and fruit morphological variation in marginal populations of Acer tataricum L. subsp. tataricum, Poljak et al., 2024

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Maple samara flight is robust to morphological perturbation and united by a classic drag model, Schaeffer et al., 2024

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