Physiological meaning of bimodal tree growth-climate response patterns
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/24:00136249
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-024-02706-5" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-024-02706-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-024-02706-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00484-024-02706-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Physiological meaning of bimodal tree growth-climate response patterns
Original language description
Correlation coefficients are widely used to identify and quantify climate signals in proxy archives. Significant relationships between tree-ring chronologies and meteorological measurements are typically applied by dendroclimatologists to distinguish between more or less relevant climate variation for ring formation. While insignificant growth-climate correlations are usually found with cold season months, we argue that weak relationships with high summer temperatures not necessarily disprove their importance for xylogenesis. Here, we use maximum latewood density records from ten treeline sites between northern Scandinavia and southern Spain to demonstrate how monthly growth-climate correlations change from narrow unimodal to wide bimodal seasons when vegetation periods become longer and warmer. Statistically meaningful relationships occur when minimum temperatures exceed 'biological zero' at around 5 degrees C. We conclude that the absence of evidence for statistical significance between tree growth and the warmest summer temperatures at Mediterranean sites is no evidence of absence for the physiological importance of high summer temperatures for ring formation. Since correlation should never be confused with causation, statistical values require mechanistic understanding, and different interpretations are needed for insignificant correlations within and outside the growing season.
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
10610 - Biophysics
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
International Journal of Biometeorology
ISSN
0020-7128
e-ISSN
1432-1254
Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
1897-1902
UT code for WoS article
001236072700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85194703937