The Maple Society's
Open Science Initiative
Public education and worldwide collaboration are at the heart of the Maple Society’s purpose. The embrace of an Open Science model is a natural extension of our ongoing work through scientific symposia, published material, meetings, and online workshops.
This page is dedicated to articles shared through the Maple Society’s Open Science Initiative. To view
other Open Science papers dedicated to various aspects of the genus Acer, click here >
Articles Shared with The Maple Society
Listed alphabetically by title
Description of bass-leaved maple, Acer distylum, by Peter Gregory (1845), in Italian
Description of hairy-footed Maple or Kyushu Maple, Acer capillipes Maximowicz, by Peter Gregory (1867), in Italian
Description of hairy-footed Maple or Kyushu Maple, Acer capillipes Maximowicz, by Peter Gregory (1867), in Polish
Classification of Acer after the Accepted Names
A classification of the species Acer following the Accepted Names. This classification, edited by E. Davis, summarizes current thinking and incorporates the work of the Maple Society Species Group to organize the list of Accepted Names in Acer, according to the classification proposed by Crowley, D. (2020), ‘Acer’ from the website Trees and Shrubs Online.
Growing Maples in North Texas
Former Maple Society North American Branch President Keith Johansson teaches us about growing maples in a hot climate.
Limitations and Possibilities for Growing Native and Exotic Maples in Poland
This article, written by Jerzy W. Tumilowicz, Warsaw Agricultural University, Rogów Arboretum, and reintroduced from the 2002 International Maple Symposium Proceedings, will be of great use to anyone who wishes to grow maples in the challenging colder climate zones. Prof. Tumilowicz tracks hardiness for 74 Acer species growing at Rogów through severe January conditions, with an average temperature of -12.4°C (9.7°F) and a minimum of -31.3°C (-24.3°F).
grafting Maples in Winter
In this article from the Maple Society summer 2010 newsletter, Laura Jones describes Dick van der Maat’s Maple Winter Grafting Course.
Maples of Iturraran Botanical Garden: Acer Section Hyptiocarpa
This article describes the maples of one of Europe’s great Botanical Gardens, Iturraran. Written by Francisco Garin, Former Director of Iturraran. In English, French and Spanish! En Anglais, Francais et Espagnole. En Inglés, Español y Francés.
Growing Maples in North Texas
Former Maple Society North American Branch President Keith Johansson teaches us about growing maples in a hot climate. Growing Maples in North Texas.
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 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
Phylogenetic relationships of maples (Acer L.; Aceraceae) implied by nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences, Suh et al., 1998
Flood-tolerance ranking of red and Freeman maple cultivars, Anella & Whitlow, 1999
Phylogeny of Aceraceae based on ITS and trnL-F data sets, Tian et al., 2000
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
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
The evolution of dioecy, heterodichogamy, and labile sex expression in Acer, Renner et al., 2007
Phylgenetics of Acer (Aceroideae, Sapindaceae) based on nucleotide sequences of two chloroplast non-coding regions, Li et al., 2008
Maples of Europe Part I, Banaszczak, 2010
Maples of Europe Part II, Banaszczak, 2010
Phylogeny and circumscription of Sapindaceae revisited: molecular sequence data, morphology and biogeography support recognition of a new family, Xanthoceraceae, Buerki et al., 2010
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
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
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).
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
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
Large scale patterns of genetic variation and differentiation in sugar maple from tropical Central America to temperate North America, Vargas-Rodriguez et al., 2015
Flower development of different genders in the morphologically andromonoecious but functionally monoecious plant Acer elegantulum Fang et P. L. Chiu, Luo et al., 2017
Acer binzayedii (Sapindaceae), a new maple species from Mexico, Vargas-Rodriguez et al., 2017
Maple phylogeny and biogeography inferred from phylogenomic data, Li et al., 2019
Model maples, Grossman, 2020
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
Evidence of constrained divergence and conservatism in climatic niches of the temperate maples (Acer L.),
Grossman, 2021
Strategies of tolerance reflected in two North American maple genomes, McEvoy et al., 2021
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
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
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
Rapid mixed forest encroachment and the expansion of red maple (Acer rubrum) in a peatland: a dendroecological and paleoecological approach, Lavoie et al., 2022
Integrated conservation of Acer yangbiense: A case study for conservation methods of plant species with extremely small populations, Yang et al., 2022
Genetic structure and trait variation within a maple hybrid zone underscore North China as an overlooked diversity hotspot, Yang et al., 2022
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
Distributional responses to climate change of two maple species in southern China, Liu et al., 2023
Integrative transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis reveals the molecular mechanism of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) leaf coloring, Luo et al., 2023
Transcriptome profiling, physiological, and biochemical analyses provide new insights towards drought stress response in sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marshall) saplings, Mulozi et al. 2023
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