Beyond maximum density: multi-parameter insights into Scots pine climate sensitivity

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00468-025-02681-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00468-025-02681-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beyond maximum density: multi-parameter insights into Scots pine climate sensitivity

Original language description

As one of Eurasia's most widely distributed conifer species, Pinus sylvestris L. is frequently used in dendroclimatological reconstructions based on tree-ring width (TRW) and maximum latewood density (MXD). However, the climatic signals of additional parameters such as earlywood/latewood density (EWD/LWD) or minimum density (MND) are often overlooked, leaving their skill unexplored. Here, we investigate the growth responses of multiple P. sylvestris tree-ring parameters to ongoing climate change at two sites with contrasting climatic conditions using well-replicated density data from Scotland and Sweden. Correlations with mean, minimum, and maximum temperatures are strongest for LWD and MXD at both sites, with coefficients ranging from 0.5 to 0.7 for July, August, and the June-August season (p < 0.05). A significant (p < 0.05) negative correlation between MND and July temperatures was identified in the Swedish Tornetr & auml,sk (TOR) data (p < 0.05), which diminished since the late twentieth century. A comparable inverse MND temperature signal and change into the twenty-first century is not reflected in northern Scotland's overall wetter and warmer site, suggesting a fundamental physiological change in tree-ring formation under global warming. A shift in the sensitivity of tree growth at northern European sites could reduce the effectiveness of proxies from such locations, posing implications for high-resolution climate reconstructions.

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

40102 - Forestry

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

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Trees: structure and function

ISSN

0931-1890

e-ISSN

1432-2285

Volume of the periodical

39

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

101

UT code for WoS article

001577275600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105016791378