Special issue: WSE symposium: Wood growth under environmental changes: the need for a multidisciplinary approach.

presents original and review papers of the International Symposium ‘WSE: Wood Structure in Plant Biology and Ecology’, held in Naples on 17–20 April 2013 and organized by the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II and the Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies of the Second University of Naples on behalf of the COST Action FP 1106 STReESS, ‘

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