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Environmental Sciences
Loic Francon, Christophe Corona, Irene Till-Bottraud, Philippe Choler, Erwan Roussel, Bradley Z. Carlson, Samuel Morin, Brigitte Girard, Markus Stoffel
Summary: This study analyzed shrubs dominated by Rhododendron ferrugineum at eight sites in the French Alps, representing different continentality, elevation, and slope aspect. The research found that snow-free growing degree days were a strong driver of shrub growth from 1960 until the late 1980s. Moreover, it documented a loss of sensitivity to increasing snow-free growing degree days since the 1990s, particularly at drier sites.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
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Forestry
Antonio M. Cachinero-Vivar, Guillermo Palacios-Rodriguez, Miguel A. Lara-Gomez, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo
Summary: The study found that thinning treatments can increase carbon sequestration capacity in Mediterranean pine species by altering tree growth patterns. There was a significant increase in biomass and soil organic carbon under higher thinning intensities, especially in P. nigra, P. sylvestris, and P. pinaster. These results can help improve silvicultural practices for carbon sequestration in dry Mediterranean forest plantations.
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Plant Sciences
Joana Vieira, Cristina Nabais, Filipe Campelo
Summary: The study reveals the importance of precipitation in Mediterranean pine forests and the influence of local site conditions on tree adaptation. Warmer spring temperatures promote growth in one area while inhibiting growth in another, showing the complex relationship between climate and tree growth.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
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Forestry
Mariusz Kormanek, Stanislaw Malek, Jacek Banach, Grzegorz Durlo
Summary: The quality of container-grown seedlings is influenced by the air and water properties of the substrate. Increase in substrate density leads to changes in air and water properties within containers, affecting different tree species in varying degrees. Precise control over water dosage during irrigation can reduce water consumption and improve seedling growth for certain species.
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Forestry
Jorge Aldea, Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado, Miren del Rio, Hans Pretzsch, Michael Heym, Gediminas Brazaitis, Aris Jansons, Marek Metslaid, Ignacio Barbeito, Kamil Bielak, Aksel Granhus, Stig-Olof Holm, Arne Nothdurft, Roman Sitko, Magnus Lof
Summary: Mixed forests are considered a strategic adaptation to climate change in forest management. Scots pine and Norway spruce, two valuable tree species for European forestry, coexist naturally but the ecological functioning of mixed stands and management strategies are not well understood. In mixed stands, interspecific size-asymmetric competition strongly influences tree growth, with Scots pine growth dependent on temperature and drought, and Norway spruce growth influenced mainly by drought.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Forestry
Valentina Vitali, Stefan Klesse, Rosemarie Weigt, Kerstin Treydte, David Frank, Matthias Saurer, Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Summary: The study investigated tree-ring width and stable isotope chronologies of Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica along a climate gradient in Central Europe, finding high sensitivity of stable isotopes to summer VPD and consistent responses across sites. There were no significant differences in isotopic responses to climate variability between dominant and suppressed trees, with high spatial coherence of δ¹⁸O variations observed over long distances. Applied dual-isotope approach indicated a general climate-driven decrease in stomatal conductance for these tree species.
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Forestry
Ruhong Xue, Liang Jiao, Changliang Qi, Ke Chen, Xiaoping Liu, Dashi Du, Xuan Wu
Summary: This study explored the climate-growth responses of Qinghai spruce and Chinese pine in the Qilian Mountains, finding significant differences in their radial growth patterns, climate dynamic responses, and temperature and soil moisture limitations. Different management and restoration measures should be taken based on these differences in ecological responses and physical and physiological properties to climate change in the subalpine forest ecosystems in Northwest China's semiarid and arid regions.
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Forestry
Dario Martin-Benito, Juan Alberto Molina-Valero, Cesar Perez-Cruzado, Christof Bigler, Harald Bugmann
Summary: The study examined disturbance and recruitment dynamics in two forests with different management histories in the Western Pyrenees. The results showed differences in disturbance regimes between the two forests, but no evidence of stand replacing disturbances. The old-growth forest had low disturbance rates and continuous recruitment of beech and fir, while the long-untouched forest was intensively disturbed in the past and had lower natural disturbance rates thereafter. The recruitment of beech and fir preferred to occur after more intense disturbances, despite their high shade tolerance. The simulation model ForClim closely matched the potential natural vegetation of the forests, but overestimated the presence of less shade-tolerant species.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Forestry
Agnes Foerster, Heike Culmsee, Christoph Leuschner
Summary: This study compared aboveground biomass carbon pools and net primary productivity of broadleaf forests with natural development to nearby pine forests in northern Germany, finding that pine forests had lower biomass carbon storage and ANPP compared to broadleaf forests due to differences in tree species.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Forestry
Robert Jandl, Cecilie Birgitte Foldal, Thomas Ledermann, Georg Kindermann
Summary: This study evaluates the role and habitat expansion of European beech in Central Europe under climate change. The results show that the habitat of beech may significantly increase in the next 60 years, but vulnerability to drought and pathogens are limiting factors. The future habitat will depend on factors such as forest resilience, market opportunities, and adaptive forest management.
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Biodiversity Conservation
A. Correa-Diaz, J. Villanueva-Diaz, A. Gomez-Guerrero, H. Martinez-Bautista, L. U. Castruita-Esparza, W. R. Horwath, L. C. R. Silva
Summary: This study used a tree-ring database to evaluate the overall resilience of tree species to drought events in the last century. It found that pointer years occurred during 11.3% of the 20th century, with an average decrease in tree growth of 66%. Different tree species showed varying levels of resilience and recovery rates, with species inhabiting xeric conditions showing higher recovery rates. On average, tree species needed 2.7 years to recover from drought events, with extreme cases requiring more than a decade.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
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Agronomy
W. Marchand, A. Buechling, M. Rydval, V Cada, A. Stegehuis, A. Fruleux, M. Polacek, J. Hofmeister, J. Pavlin, D. Ralhan, M. Dusatko, P. Janda, M. Mikolas, O. Vostarek, R. Bace, M. Frankovic, D. Kozak, C-C Roibu, O. Chaskovskyy, S. Mikac, T. Zlatanov, M. Panayotov, A. Diku, E. Toromani, M. Svoboda
Summary: The demography of juvenile trees has a strong influence on the outcomes of global change for forests. Our study in Europe reveals the relationships between climate factors and growth rates in sapling trees of two dominant species, Norway spruce and European beech. We found that spruce has higher growth potential and is more sensitive to water availability, while beech is more tolerant of moisture limitation. Long-term warming may have positively affected juvenile tree growth, but future warming and drought may inhibit growth due to thermal thresholds and differential water stress tolerance.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Linar Akhmetzyanov, Raul Sanchez-Salguero, Ignacio Garcia-Gonzalez, Marta Dominguez-Delmas, Ute Sass-Klaassen
Summary: The study explores the potential of using tree-ring blue intensity (BI) measurements to reconstruct long-term climate and water availability changes in Mediterranean conifer forests. The results show that BI variables, particularly latewood blue intensity (LWBI) and delta blue intensity (dBI), are more sensitive to drought indicators and precipitation compared to traditional ring-width variables. This novel study has important implications for understanding and reconstructing environmental changes in drought-prone regions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Asier Herrero, Raquel Gonzalez-Gascuena, Patricia Gonzalez-Diaz, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Enrique Andivia
Summary: Drought-induced tree mortality has impacted forest ecosystems worldwide, but the individual vulnerability to this mortality is still not well understood. In this study, we compared radial growth patterns between alive and recently dead Pinus sylvestris trees in central Spain, and found that as drought intensity increased, all trees exhibited increased growth synchrony and sensitivity to water availability. Dead trees showed lower growth synchrony and sensitivity to water availability 20 years before death, suggesting a decoupling between tree growth and climate, which could lead to hydraulic failure and carbon starvation under arid conditions.
FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
(2023)
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Agronomy
Yanyan Ni, Wenfa Xiao, Jianfeng Liu, Zunji Jian, Maihe Li, Jin Xu, Lei Lei, Jianhua Zhu, Qi Li, Lixiong Zeng, Paolo Cherubini
Summary: Through a study on the relationship between the radial growth of Pinus massoniana and climate variability in natural forests and planted forests in subtropical China, it was found that the growth-climate relationships are largely similar in both types of forests. The effects of climate variables on tree growth vary among different sites and latitudinal gradients. These findings not only enrich our understanding of the impacts of climate on forest growth, but also provide implications for future forest sustainable management in subtropical regions of central China.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
(2023)
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Forestry
Nicolas Latte, Francois Lebourgeois, Hugues Claessens
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Forestry
Maude Toigo, Patrick Vallet, Valene Tuilleras, Francois Lebourgeois, Philippe Rozenberg, Sandrine Perret, Benoit Courbaud, Thomas Perot
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2015)
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Forestry
Raphael Trouve, Jean-Daniel Bontemps, Ingrid Seynave, Catherine Collet, Francois Lebourgeois
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Forestry
Nicolas Latte, Francois Lebourgeois, Hugues Claessens
TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
(2016)
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Plant Sciences
Christian Piedallu, Jean-Claude Gegout, Francois Lebourgeois, Ingrid Seynave
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
(2016)
Article
Forestry
Raphaeel Trouve, Jean-Daniel Bontemps, Catherine Collet, Ingrid Seynave, Francois Lebourgeois
TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
(2017)
Article
Forestry
Nicolas Latte, Jerome Perin, Vincent Kint, Francois Lebourgeois, Hugues Claessens
Review
Forestry
Ingrid Seynave, Alain Bailly, Philippe Balandier, Jean-Daniel Bontemps, Priscilla Cailly, Thomas Cordonnier, Christine Deleuze, Jean-Francois Dhote, Christian Ginisty, Francois Lebourgeois, Dominique Merzeau, Eric Paillassa, Sandrine Perret, Claudine Richter, Celine Meredieu
ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE
(2018)
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Forestry
Francois Lebourgeois, Nicolas Delpierre, Eric Dufrene, Sebastien Cecchini, Sebastien Mace, Luc Croise, Manuel Nicolas
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH
(2018)
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Ecology
Andrew J. Hacket-Pain, Davide Ascoli, Giorgio Vacchiano, Franco Biondi, Liam Cavin, Marco Conedera, Igor Drobyshev, Isabel Dorado Linan, Andrew D. Friend, Michael Grabner, Claudia Hartl, Juergen Kreyling, Francois Lebourgeois, Tom Levanic, Annette Menzel, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Lena Muffler, Renzo Motta, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Ionel Popa, Tobias Scharnweber, Robert Weigel, Martin Wilmking, Christian S. Zang
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Forestry
Raphael Trouve, Jean-Daniel Bontemps, Catherine Collet, Ingrid Seynave, Francois Lebourgeois
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2019)
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Biophysics
Remy Denechere, Nicolas Delpierre, Ecaterina Nicoleta Apostol, Daniel Berveiller, Fabrice Bonne, Ella Cole, Sylvain Delzon, Eric Dufrene, Eliana Gressler, Frederic Jean, Francois Lebourgeois, Guohua Liu, Jean-Marc Louvet, Julien Parmentier, Kamel Soudani, Gaelle Vincent
Summary: Leaf phenology is a major driver of ecosystem functioning in temperate forests and a robust indicator of climate change. This study found that the within-population variability of leaf phenology can affect the estimation of average budburst or leaf senescence dates at the population scale. Warmer temperatures during budburst period and late average budburst date were associated with lower variability, while later senescence and warm temperatures during senescence period were linked with higher variability, with a strong species effect observed in both cases. Additional factors besides temperature likely influence within-population variation in leaf phenology, as indicated by modest variance explained by the models.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY
(2021)
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Forestry
M. Jourdan, F. Lebourgeois, X. Morin
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2019)
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Forestry
Anna Schmitt, Raphael Trouve, Ingrid Seynave, Francois Lebourgeois
ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE
(2020)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Didier Bert, Francois Lebourgeois, Stephane Ponton, Brigitte Musch, Alexis Ducousso