Effects of Climate Change on Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) Growth across Europe: Decrease of Tree-Ring Fluctuation and Amplification of Climate Stress

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f15010091" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f15010091</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f15010091" target="_blank" >10.3390/f15010091</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of Climate Change on Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) Growth across Europe: Decrease of Tree-Ring Fluctuation and Amplification of Climate Stress

Original language description

From an economic perspective, Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) is one of Europe's most important tree species. It is characterized by its wide ecological adaptability across its natural range. This research aimed to evaluate the forest structure, productivity and especially radial growth of heterogenous pine stands in 16 research plots in the Czech Republic, Poland, Spain and Great Britain. The study assessed the tree-ring formation and its relationship to climate change for each country, using 163 dendrochronological samples. The stand volume of mature pine forest ranged between 91 and 510 m(3) ha(-1), and the carbon sequestration in the tree biomass was 40-210 t ha(-1). The stands had a prevailing random distribution of trees, with a high vertical structure close to selection forests (forest stands with typical very diverse height, diameter and age structure). Spectral analyses showed a substantial decrease in fluctuations in the tree-ring index and a loss in natural growth cyclicity in the last thirty years. The results also evinced that mean air temperature was the most important factor influencing the radial growth compared to precipitation totals. Pine thrives in precipitation-stable locations, as shown by the results from Great Britain. The conclusions of this study confirm the fundamental effect of ongoing global climate change on the dynamics and growth of pine forests in Europe.

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

40100 - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

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

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1.0

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

1-22

UT code for WoS article

001151985900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85183320140