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Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts

Jürgen Bauhus
Matthias Cuntz
Marc Hanewinkel
James Ryder
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Julien Sainte‐marie
Julia Schwarz
Rasoul Yousefpour

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Extreme droughts are expected to increase in frequency and severity in many regions of the world, threatening multiple ecosystem services provided by forests. Effective strategies to adapt forests to such droughts require comprehensive information on the effects and importance of the factors influencing forest resistance and resilience. We used a unique combination of inventory and dendrochronological data from a longterm (>30 years) silvicultural experiment in mixed silver fir and Norway spruce mountain forests along a temperature and precipitation gradient in southwestern Germany. We aimed at examining the mechanisms and forest stand characteristics underpinning the resistance and resilience to past mild and severe droughts. We found that (i) fir benefited from mild droughts and showed higher resistance (i.e., lower growth loss during drought) and resilience (i.e., faster return to pre-drought growth levels) than spruce to all droughts; (ii) species identity determined mild drought responses while species This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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hal-03516934 , version 1 (07-01-2022)

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Alessandra Bottero, David I Forrester, Maxime Cailleret, Ulrich Kohnle, Arthur Gessler, et al.. Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts. Global Change Biology, 2021, 27 (18), pp.4403 - 4419. ⟨10.1111/gcb.15737⟩. ⟨hal-03516934⟩
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