Climate and wildfire effects on radial growth of Pinus sylvestris in the Khan Khentii Mountains, north-central Mongolia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F20%3A43918184" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/20:43918184 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/86652079:_____/20:00532502
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104223" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104223</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104223" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104223</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Climate and wildfire effects on radial growth of Pinus sylvestris in the Khan Khentii Mountains, north-central Mongolia
Original language description
The warming climate of recent decades has led to further aridity of the Mongolian landscape and has had major effects on forest growth and wildfire occurrence. Here, we investigated drought and wildfire effects on the growth of Pinus sylvestris along an ecologically diverse transect in semiarid north-central Mongolia using two separate subsets. Tree-ring width series of the first subset, represented by trees without fire scars, were clustered into three regional chronologies reflecting environmental differences of delineated geo-vegetation zones. Tree-ring growth reflected June drought signal at all three zones. The increasing radial growth trend was found in the dark taiga zone, likely supported by permafrost summer thawing, primarily caused by temperature increases. The second subset, represented by injured trees, showed that most wildfires occurred during the dormant season and in the forest-steppe zone; April-May drought conditions substantially contributed to triggering wildfires. Nevertheless, an increased frequency of wildfires in the study area was not observed, despite temperature increases since 1940. Our study highlights the significance of the effect of the ongoing temperature increase on north-central Mongolian pine forests, and, correspondingly, the need to conserve an endangered ecosystem of the dark taiga and to undertake afforestation activities in devastated pine forests.
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/EF16_019%2F0000797" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000797: SustES - Adaptation strategies for sustainable ecosystem services and food security under adverse environmental conditions</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Arid Environments
ISSN
0140-1963
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
182
Issue of the periodical within the volume
November
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
104223
UT code for WoS article
000564509500004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85088799532