Harvey, Jill and Smiljanić, Marko and Scharnweber, Tobias and Buras, Allan and Cedro, Anna and Cruz Garcia, Roberto and Drobyshev, Igor and Janecka, Karolina and Jansons, Aris and Kaczka, Ryszard and Klisz, Marcin and Läänelaid, Alar and Matisons, Roberts and Muffler, Lena and Sohar, Kristina and Spyt, Barbara and Stolz, Juliane and van der Maaten, Ernst and van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marieke and Vitas, Adomas and Weigel, Robert and Kreyling, Jürgen and Wilmking, Martin
(2020).
Tree growth influenced by warming winter climate and summer moisture availability in northern temperate forests.
Global Change Biology. 26
, 2505-2518
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Abstract
The role of future forests in global biogeochemical cycles will depend on how different tree species respond to climate. Interpreting the response of forest growth to climate change requires an understanding of the temporal and spatial patterns of seasonal climatic influences on the growth of common tree species. We constructed a new network of 310 tree‐ring width chronologies from three common tree species (Quercus robur , Pinus sylvestris and Fagus sylvatica ) collected for different ecological, management and climate purposes in the south Baltic Sea region at the border of three bioclimatic zones (temperate continental, oceanic, southern boreal). The major climate factors (temperature, precipitation, drought) affecting tree growth at monthly and seasonal scales were identified. Our analysis documents that 20th century Scots pine and deciduous species growth is generally controlled by different climate parameters, and that summer moisture availability is increasingly important for the growth of deciduous species examined. We report changes in the influence of winter climate variables over the last decades, where a decreasing influence of late winter temperature on deciduous tree growth and an increasing influence of winter temperature on Scots pine growth was found. By comparing climate–growth responses for the 1943–1972 and 1973–2002 periods and characterizing site‐level growth response stability, a descriptive application of spatial segregation analysis distinguished sites with stable responses to dominant climate parameters (northeast of the study region), and sites that collectively showed unstable responses to winter climate (southeast of the study region). The findings presented here highlight the temporally unstable and nonuniform responses of tree growth to climate variability, and that there are geographical coherent regions where these changes are similar. Considering continued climate change in the future, our results provide important regional perspectives on recent broad‐scale climate–growth relationships for trees across the temperate to boreal forest transition around the south Baltic Sea.
Authors/Creators: | Harvey, Jill and Smiljanić, Marko and Scharnweber, Tobias and Buras, Allan and Cedro, Anna and Cruz Garcia, Roberto and Drobyshev, Igor and Janecka, Karolina and Jansons, Aris and Kaczka, Ryszard and Klisz, Marcin and Läänelaid, Alar and Matisons, Roberts and Muffler, Lena and Sohar, Kristina and Spyt, Barbara and Stolz, Juliane and van der Maaten, Ernst and van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marieke and Vitas, Adomas and Weigel, Robert and Kreyling, Jürgen and Wilmking, Martin | ||||||
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Title: | Tree growth influenced by warming winter climate and summer moisture availability in northern temperate forests | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2020 | ||||||
Volume: | 26 | ||||||
Page range: | 2505-2518 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||||
ISSN: | 1354-1013 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Climate Research (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 4 Agricultural Sciences > 401 Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries > Forest Science | ||||||
Keywords: | Baltic Sea, climate change, climate-growth relationships, dendroecology, Europe, tree growth, tree-ring network, winter climate | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-107851 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-107851 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 17590 | ||||||
Faculty: | S - Faculty of Forest Sciences | ||||||
Department: | (S) > Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 24 Sep 2020 13:45 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 15 Jan 2021 19:22 |
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