Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) resilience to climate change: Insights from coppice forests in Southern and Central Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020702%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000082" target="_blank" >RIV/00020702:_____/23:N0000082 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/23:97804
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/12/2403" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/12/2403</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14122403" target="_blank" >10.3390/f14122403</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) resilience to climate change: Insights from coppice forests in Southern and Central Europe
Original language description
Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) is a thermophilic oak species that is gaining importance in the context of ongoing climate change because of its better resistance to climatic extremes and drier conditions. Therefore, this article focuses on Turkey oak's role and growth properties in the coppice forests of Southern Europe (Italy, Bulgaria) compared to similar site conditions in Central Europe (Slovakia, Czechia). The aims are to evaluate the basic dendrometry indicators, stand biodiversity, growth dynamics, and the effect of climatic factors on tree-ring increment on specific site chronologies. We found that the tree density in coppices of 50-60 years varied between 475 and 775 trees ha(-1), and the stand volume ranged from 141 to 407 m(3) ha(-1). The complex stand diversity of all plots ranged from a monotonous to uniform structure. The size of tree-ring growth was closely related to indicators of stand density. The lowest influence of climatic factors on tree-ring growth was found in sites in Italy and the highest in Slovakia. The primary limiting factor for growth was the lack of precipitation during the growing season, especially in June and July. In contrast, temperature had a marginal effect on radial growth compared to precipitation. The radial growth in research plots in Southern Europe goes through longer 6 to 8-year growth cycles, and in Central European sites, it goes through shorter cycles of 2.4 to 4.8 years, which confirms better growth conditions in this region. The studied coppice stands exhibit a stable reaction to climate change. Yet, regarding cyclical growth, the Central European stands benefit from an advantageous climate and grow better than in Southern Europe. As part of the changing environmental conditions, Turkey oak is becoming an important tree species that can achieve high production potential even in drier habitats due to its regeneration characteristic as coppice and may play a critical role in its northerly introduction in Europe.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Forests
ISSN
1999-4907
e-ISSN
1999-4907
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
23
Pages from-to
2403
UT code for WoS article
001132364800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85180615751