Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/21:89508

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvs.13069" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jvs.13069</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13069" target="_blank" >10.1111/jvs.13069</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Disturbance history is a key driver of tree life span in temperate primary forests

Original language description

Aims We examined differences in life span among the dominant tree species (spruce, Picea abies; fir, Abies alba; beech, Fagus sylvatica; and maple, Acer pseudoplatanus) across primary mountain forests of Europe. We asked how disturbance history, lifetime growth patterns, and environmental factors influence life span. Locations Balkan Mountains, Carpathian Mountains, Dinaric Mountains. Methods Annual ring widths from 20,600 cores from primary forests were used to estimate tree life spans, growth trends, and disturbance history metrics. Mixed models were used to examine species-specific differences in life span (i.e., defined as species-specific 90th percentiles of age distributions), and how metrics of radial growth, disturbance parameters, and selected environmental factors influence life span. Results While only a few beech trees surpassed 500 years, individuals of all four species were older than 400 years. There were significant differences in life span among the four species (beech &gt; fir &gt; spruce &gt; maple), indicating life history differentiation in life span. Trees were less likely to reach old age in areas affected by more severe disturbance events, whereas individuals that experienced periods of slow growth and multiple episodes of suppression and release were more likely to reach old age. Aside from a weak but significant negative effect of vegetation season temperature on fir and maple life span, no other environmental factors included in the analysis influenced life span. Conclusions Our results indicate species-specific biological differences in life span, which may play a role in facilitating tree species coexistence in mixed temperate forests. Finally, natural disturbance regimes were a key driver of life span, which could have implications for forest dynamics if regimes shift under global change.

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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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000803" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000803: Advanced research supporting the forestry and wood-processing sector´s adaptation to global change and the 4th industrial revolution</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

Journal of Vegetation Science

ISSN

1100-9233

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000716232600007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85118137577