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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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Environmental Sciences
Fujie Zhao, Guojie Wang, Shijie Li, Daniel Fiifi Tawia Hagan, Waheed Ullah
Summary: Understanding the combined effects of heat and water stress on maize yield is crucial for food security in China. This study used historical and future climate data to predict the impact of vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and root-zone soil moisture on maize yield. The results showed that both VPD and soil moisture are representative indicators of heat and moisture stress on maize. Considering soil moisture in future projections significantly reduced the overestimated yield loss compared to only considering atmospheric moisture requirements. The findings emphasize the importance of considering both atmospheric moisture demand and supply in analyzing the effects of climate change on crop yield.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
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Ecology
Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Rasoul Yousefpour
Summary: The study indicates that mature European beech forests can store a significant amount of carbon and contribute to climate mitigation actions. Optimal management solutions vary by region, focusing on wood production or simultaneously promoting carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. Overall, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration act synergistically, while wood production may have trade-offs with other ecosystem services.
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xingcai Liu, Wenfeng Liu, Qiuhong Tang, Bo Liu, Yoshihide Wada, Hong Yang
Summary: Climate change has negative effects on water availability and food production. This study develops an integrated agricultural water scarcity index that shows future water scarcity will increase and highlights the importance of green water management for agriculture.
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Plant Sciences
Nina Skrk, Roberto Serrano-Notivoli, Martin de Luis, Katarina Cufar
Summary: Climate change is expected to affect the spatial distribution of tree species in Europe, including the drought-sensitive European beech. This study utilized forest inventory data and modeled climate data to explore the relationship between climate variables and the dominance of beech trees in forest stands.
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Environmental Sciences
Huanjiong Wang, Shaozhi Lin, Junhu Dai, Quansheng Ge
Summary: European beech trees can cope with climate change through phenotypic plasticity or local adaptation, but the relative contribution of these mechanisms to phenological change is still unclear. Our study on European beech leaf-out data showed that chilling accumulation, provenance, and their interactions affect the heat requirement for leaf-out, with provenances from southeastern Europe flushing earlier than those from northwestern regions. The parameters of the CA-PHR function were linked to climatic variables at the provenance origins.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
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Ecology
Yang Liu, Mingxin Men, Zhengping Peng, James H. Houx, Yunfeng Peng
Summary: Temperature and water availability are considered as primary controls over the effects of warming on ecosystem productivity, but soil nitrogen availability has a stronger influence over a broad geographical scale. The warming effect on productivity is mainly driven by its effect on soil nitrogen availability. Nitrogen addition weakens the positive warming effect, indicating that nitrogen regulates the warming effect.
Article
Forestry
Renato S. S. Pacaldo, Mirac Aydin
Summary: Climate change is projected to increase extreme hot temperatures and dry days, affecting the global carbon budget. Droughts are expected to change soil respiration (R-s) rates, but limited data hinder a reliable estimate and future trajectory. A field experiment in the Philippines revealed higher R-s rates in a natural forest (5.81 & mu;mol m(-2) s(-1)) compared to a plantation (1.82 & mu;mol m(-2) s(-1)) and control (3.23 & mu;mol m(-2) s(-1)). R-s rates showed negative relationships with air and soil temperatures, indicating a decrease as temperatures rise, while a positive relationship with soil moisture was observed. Further studies are needed to understand R-s rates during wet periods under different site conditions and vegetation types.
JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH
(2023)
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Forestry
Nevenka Celepirovic, Sanja Bogunovic, Aikaterini Dounavi, Florian Netzer, Monika Eiblmeier, Michael Dannenmann, Stephanie Rehschuh, Heinz Rennenberg, Mladen Ivankovic
Summary: This study characterized the physiological responses of Croatian beech saplings to experimentally applied water deprivation, finding that phosphorus availability in the soil rather than climatic conditions played a more significant role in controlling the response of beech saplings to water deprivation.
Article
Ecology
Likulunga Emmanuel Likulunga, Simon Clausing, Jaane Krueger, Friederike Lang, Andrea Polle
Summary: The seasonal patterns of fine root biomass are influenced by climate factors and soil depth, resulting in differences in fine root biomass among different soil layers. Fine root biomass in the mineral soil tends to be more affected by climate, while soil moisture is more important for fine root biomass in the organic layer.
FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
(2022)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Marjana Westergren, Juliette Archambeau, Marko Bajc, Rok Damjanic, Adelaide Theraroz, Hojka Kraigher, Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio, Santiago C. Gonzalez-Martinez
Summary: This study examined the response of European beech to selection under field conditions. The results showed that larger trees with higher fruit production and early male flowering had higher total fecundity, while trees with longer growth season had lower total fecundity (directional selection). Stabilizing selection on spring phenology was found for female fecundity, indicating the impact of late frosts on selection. Compared to other studies, this research found relatively low to moderate heritability and evolvability for most traits. The study suggests that forest tree populations, such as European beech, can locally adapt even at short time scales.
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Ecology
Adriane Aupic-Samain, Virginie Baldy, Ninon Delcourt, Paul Henning Krogh, Thierry Gauquelin, Catherine Fernandez, Mathieu Santonja
Summary: This study evaluated how simulated climate change and predation alter a collembolan community under laboratory conditions, highlighting soil moisture as the major driver with significant impacts on the community structure and predator-prey interactions.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(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.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Megan L. Purchase, Gary D. Bending, Ryan M. Mushinski
Summary: This study provides a unique investigation of NOy fluxes on a landscape scale, considering land-use types, human influence, and seasonality, to determine large-scale heterogeneity and provide a basis for future modeling and hypothesis generation. The study finds significant differences in functional potential and activity of nitrifying and denitrifying soil microbes linked to NOy emissions, and suggests that human influence is a more significant effector of soil NOy emissions than land-use type.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Agronomy
Karin Potthast, Alexander Tischer, Martina Herrmann, Alexander Weinhold, Kirsten Kusel, Nicole M. van Dam, Beate Michalzik
Summary: The study found that aphids significantly increase inputs of OC within throughfall. Honeydew on infested leaves had little impact on total phyllosphere bacterial abundances, but did affect the community structure. In all soil compartments, cold-water extractable OC pools declined significantly due to frequent inputs of readily available OC, potentially related to reductions in rhizodepositions and altered microbial processing.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jens Schirmel, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, Dorothea Gauger, Irmgard Blindow
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2015)
Article
Biology
Vanessa Minden, Christoph Scherber, Miguel A. Cebrian Piqueras, Juliane Trinogga, Anastasia Trenkamp, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, Patrick Lienin, Michael Kleyer
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2016)
Article
Ecology
Piotr Hulisz, Agnieszka Piernik, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, Tiina Elvisto
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lena M. Reibelt, Torsten Richter, Antje Rendigs, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras
Article
Forestry
Jasmin Lendzion, Christoph Leuschner
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH
(2009)
Article
Forestry
Jasmin Lendzion, Christoph Leuschner
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2008)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jens Schirmel, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, Irmgard Blindow, Thomas Fartmann
JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION
(2011)
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Plant Sciences
Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, Jens Schirmel, Stefan Zerbe
JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY
(2012)
Article
Plant Sciences
Christoph Leuschner, Jasmin Lendzion
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
(2009)
Article
Plant Sciences
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino, Victor Cardona, Ernest I. Hennig, Isabell Hensen, Doreen Hoffmann, Jasmin Lendzion, Daniel Soto, Sebastian K. Herzog, Michael Kessler
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stephanie Stiegel, Martin H. Entling, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Julia T. Treitler, Joern Buse, Giuseppe M. Carpaneto, Stefan Zerbe, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2017)
Article
Environmental Studies
Dorothea Pietzsch, Sabine Ochsner, Jasmin Mantilla-Contreras, Ulrich Hampicke
LANDSCAPE RESEARCH
(2013)