Climate relationships of growth and establishment across the altitudinal range of Fagus sylvatica in the Montseny Mountains, northeast Spain

Jump, Alistair S.; Hunt, Jenny; Peñuelas, Josep

doi:10.2980/1195-6860(2007)14[507:crogae]2.0.co;2

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“…The results published in this study align themselves with the results recorded in previous studies, which showed a negative correlation between the temperature of the growing season and the radial growth; and a positive correlation between rainfallespecially rainfall in the growing season -and growth (Jump et al, 2007;Leca, 2014;Piovesan et al, 2005;Tegel et al, 2014). The water available in the months of May-June is essential for the values of radial growth in the current year and for the survival of beech in the long-term (Czúcz et al, 2011;Di Filippo et al, 2007;Dittmar et al, 2003;Lebourgeois et al, 2005).…”

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“…xeric level) which is more difficult to determine than the upper limit, determined by temperature (Rasztovits, 2011). Special attention has been given to identifying some values that indicate beech resistance to drought in the context of climate change (Granier et al, 2007;Jump et al, 2007;Silva et al, 2012). Therefore, numerous temperature and precipitation indices have been established in order to project a lower altitudinal limit of beech distribution for the future.…”

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The Resistance of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) From the Eastern Natural Limit of Species to Climate Change

Budeanu

Petritan

Popescu

et al. 2016

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In this study, different approaches were used to investigate the vulnerability of beech forests, located at the eastern limit of their natural range, to climate change. To accomplish this, six 2500 m 2 plots were sampled in four European beech forest genetic resources, located in Romania at different altitudinal levels, varying from 230 to 580 m in the Bacău hills and between 650 and 1300 m in the Curvature Carpathian (Braşov region). The analysis of trees phenotypic traits, their radial growth, and the regeneration, did not indicate a vulnerability of the sampled stands to the fluctuations of the environmental factors from the 1950-2014 period. The growth indices of all three populations of Bacău hills are negatively correlated with both June air temperature of current year and September of the previous year. The precipitation amount of September previous year positively influenced the growth indices. The radial growth of plots in Braşov region is slightly linked to the climate. The temperature during the growing season represents a limiting factor for stands that are located outside of the optimal altitudinal species distribution (600-1200 m, in Romania), especially at low altitudes. Our results indicated that a rise of the temperature accompanied by a possible reduction of the precipitations (as is predicted for the coming years) could increase the sensibility of beech forests at lower altitude.

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The Resistance of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) From the Eastern Natural Limit of Species to Climate Change

Budeanu

Petritan

Popescu

et al. 2016

Not Bot Horti Agrobo

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“…Tree lines in many mountainous regions have already responded to recent temperature changes (MacDonald et al 1998, Klasner & Fagre 2002, Jump et al 2007, with trees invading into meadows (Wearne & Morgan 2001). The Norwegian mountain flora have shown analogous changes in species richness and altitudinal distributions over the last 70 yr in response to a relatively small change of 0.4 to 1.2°C in annual temperature (Klanderud & Birks 2003), and the high pine limit associated with the warm 20th century in the Swedish Scandes stands out as an anomaly in the Holocene record (Kullman 2002).…”

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Developing site scale projections of climate change in the Scottish Highlands

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Price³

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With recent warming trends projected to amplify over the coming century, there are concerns surrounding the impacts on mountain regions. Despite these concerns, global (GCMs) and regional climate models (RCMs) fail to capture local scale-dependent controls on upland climates. A modelling framework combining climate model outputs and station data is presented and used to explore possible future changes to temperature with altitude in the Scottish Highlands. The approach was extended by modelling shifts in seasonal isotherm values associated with existing vegetation zones. To achieve this, temperature lapse rate models (LRMs) were applied to 1961-1990 baseline (BL) observed station data for selected stations in the eastern Highlands using seasonally representative lapse rate values (LRVs) derived from paired station values. Tests against 3 upland station records ranging from 663 to 1245 m indicated a credible model performance for the mean seasonal maximum (T max ) and minimum (T min ) BL values evaluated. Following derivation of seasonal isotherm values for the present upper limit of vegetation zones via the LRMs, selected scenario data outputs from the corresponding Hadley Centre RCM (HadRM3H) 50 × 50 km grid cells were used to project future changes to BL values via the LRMs. The findings suggest substantial shifts in the isotherm associated with each zone for the scenarios selected, with shifts in T min more marked than those for T max , although substantial uncertainties remain. Following an exploration of the results for the region, we suggest that a refinement to the approach linked to a wider modelling effort incorporating other important controlling variables for upland species could inform future management initiatives for mountain areas more generally.

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“…However, despite this wide ecological tolerance, F. sylvatica is considered to be a drought-sensitive species (Charra-Vaskou et al 2012), and this may be particularly important towards its southern distribution edge where drought is more frequent (Czucz et al 2011;Penuelas et al 2007). Limitation of growth, regeneration, mortality and competitiveness in F. sylvatica have all been linked to climate and extreme events Jump et al 2007). The sensitivity to summer drought in particular appears to be largely a result of its shallow rooting system, which is concentrated in the upper layers of the soil (Packham et al 2012).…”

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Consistent limitation of growth by high temperature and low precipitation from range core to southern edge of European beech indicates widespread vulnerability to changing climate

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The aim of our study was to determine variation in the response of radial growth in Fagus sylvatica L (European Beech) to climate across the species full geographical distribution and climatic tolerance. We combined new and existing data to build a database of 140 tree-ring chronologies to investigate patterns in growth-climate relationships. Our novel meta-analysis approach has allowed the first investigation of the effect of climate on tree growth across the entire geographical distribution of the species. We identified key climate signals in tree-ring chronologies and then investigated how these varied geographically and according to mean local climate, and by tree age and size. We found that the most important climate variables significantly correlated with growth did not show strong geographical patterns. Growth of trees in the core and at the southern edge of the distribution was reduced by high temperature and low precipitation during the growing season, and by high temperatures in the previous summer. However, growth of trees growing in warmer and drier locations was more frequently significantly correlated with summer precipitation than other populations. Additionally, the growth of older and larger trees was more frequently significantly correlated with previous summer temperature than younger and smaller trees. Trees growing at the south of the species geographical distributions are often considered most at risk from climate change, but our results indicate that radial growth of populations in other areas of the distribution is equally likely to be significantly correlated with summer climate and may also be vulnerable. Additionally, tree-rings from older trees contain particular growth-climate relationships that are rarely found in younger trees. These results have important implications for predicting forest carbon balance, resource use and likely future changes to forest composition across the continent.

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Climate relationships of growth and establishment across the altitudinal range of Fagus sylvatica in the Montseny Mountains, northeast Spain

Cited by 87 publications

References 46 publications

The Resistance of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) From the Eastern Natural Limit of Species to Climate Change

The Resistance of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) From the Eastern Natural Limit of Species to Climate Change

Developing site scale projections of climate change in the Scottish Highlands

Consistent limitation of growth by high temperature and low precipitation from range core to southern edge of European beech indicates widespread vulnerability to changing climate

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