Challenges for growth of beech and co-occurring conifers in a changing climate context
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F18%3A43913981" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/18:43913981 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.09.001" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.09.001</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.09.001" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.dendro.2018.09.001</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Challenges for growth of beech and co-occurring conifers in a changing climate context
Original language description
Given recent climatic trends, it is crucial to understand the plasticity and adaptiveness of forest trees in order to evaluate their current and future responses to changing climatic conditions. We investigated inter- and intra-annual xylem growth and its relation to weather factors in European beech (Fagus sylvatica) and a co-occurring conifer, either Norway spruce (Picea abies) or Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), at five sites with different elevations and climatic conditions, in Spain, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. The selected sites were located in central and marginal parts across the distribution range of the investigated species. The results showed that climate-growth relationships vary between different species at the same site and within the same species at different sites, indicating diverse survival strategies among the observed species but also high plastic capacity within the same species. Moreover, xylogenesis analysis revealed the capacity of trees to adapt the beginning and cessation of wood formation depending on conditions. In case of beech, shortening growth duration in dryer and warmer environments and the opposite in the case of conifers, with which the growing period was extended in such conditions. Consequently, the plasticity capacity of beech was limited due to short growth duration, while conifers (especially pine) proved to be able to compensate climatic constrictions by growing over a longer period and becoming more adapted to survival in drought-prone environments.
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
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0265" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0265: Indicators of trees vitality</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Dendrochronologia
ISSN
1125-7865
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
52
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
1-10
UT code for WoS article
000451071500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85053421636