Species-Specific Effects of Groundwater Level Alteration on Climate Sensitivity of Floodplain Trees

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020699%3A_____%2F21%3AN0000034" target="_blank" >RIV/00020699:_____/21:N0000034 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/21:43920197

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1178/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1178/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12091178" target="_blank" >10.3390/f12091178</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Species-Specific Effects of Groundwater Level Alteration on Climate Sensitivity of Floodplain Trees

Original language description

European floodplain forest is facing increasingly frequent and severe drought events related with ongoing climate change. Moreover, this ecosystem type was frequently affected by river regulation, leading to groundwater table lowering; however, river revitalization has, in some locations, achieved some restoration of groundwater levels. In this study, we investigated the growth–climate sensitivity and growth modulation after groundwater-level manipulation for Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl. and Quercus robur L. in one of the most important floodplain forest complexes in Central Europe. We constructed three different types of tree ring chronologies to reflect the high frequency variability, medium-low frequency variability, and basal area increment. We found F. angustifolia to be more sensitive than Q. robur to both drought and groundwater level fluctuations. Moreover, F. angustifolia showed more pronounced short-term and long-term growth decreases after artificial ground water level alteration than did Q. robur. We also found that the groundwater level increase due to river revitalization reduced the climate sensitivity for both F. angustifolia and Q. robur. The decrease in climate sensitivity associated with revitalization was more pronounced for F. angustifolia which, moreover, showed a greater basal growth after river revitalization. Our results suggest that F. angustifolia will be more threatened than Q. robur by the diminution in groundwater availability and increase in drought with ongoing climate change. They also show that river revitalization can be a suitable management tool to help the adaptation to climate change.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

<a href="/en/project/LTC19013" target="_blank" >LTC19013: The effect of changed environmental conditions on South Moravian floodplain forest ecosystems</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Forests

ISSN

1999-4907

e-ISSN

1999-4907

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

000699494200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85114499090