Drought-induced weakening of growth-temperature associations in high-elevation Iberian pines

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.011" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.011</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.011" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.011</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Drought-induced weakening of growth-temperature associations in high-elevation Iberian pines

Original language description

The growth/climate relationship of theoretically temperature-controlled high-elevation forests has been demonstrated to weaken over recent decades. This is likely due to new tree growth limiting factors, such as an increasing drought risk for ecosystem functioning and productivity across the Mediterranean Basin. In addition, declining tree growth sensitivity to spring temperature may emerge in response to increasing drought stress. Here, we evaluate these ideas by assessing the growth/climate sensitivity of 1500 tree-ring width (TRW) and 102 maximum density (MXD) measurement series from 711 and 74 Pinus uncinata trees, respectively, sampled at 28 high-elevation forest sites across the Pyrenees and two relict populations of the Iberian System. Different dendroclimatological standardization and split period approaches were used to assess the high- to low-frequency behavior of 20th century tree growth in response to temperature means, precipitation totals and drought indices. Long-term variations in TRW track summer temperatures until about 1970 but diverge afterwards, whereas MXD captures the recent temperature increase in the low-frequency domain fairly well. On the other hand summer drought has increasingly driven TRW along the 20th century. Our results suggest fading temperature sensitivity of Iberian high-elevation P. uncinata forest growth, and reveal the importance of summer drought that is becoming the emergent limiting factor of tree ring width formation in many parts of the Mediterranean Basin. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DG - Atmospheric sciences, meteorology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global and Planetary Change

ISSN

0921-8181

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

124

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JAN

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

95-106

UT code for WoS article

000349577800008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84949117668