Identifying drivers of non-stationary climate-growth relationships of European beech

Christopher Leifsson; Allan Buras; Stefan Klesse; Claudia Baittinger; Banzragch Bat-Enerel; Giovanna Battipaglia; Franco Biondi; Branko Stajić; Marius Budeanu; Vojtěch Čada; Liam Cavin; Hugues Claessens; Katarina Čufar; Martin de Luis; Isabel Dorado-Liñán; Choimaa Dulamsuren; Balázs Garamszegi; Michael Grabner; Andrew Hacket-Pain; Jon Kehlet Hansen; Claudia Hartl; Weiwei Huang; Pavel Janda; Alistair Jump; Marko Kazimirović; Florian Knutzen; Jürgen Kreyling; Alexander Land; Nicolas Latte; François Lebourgeois; Christoph Leuschner; Luis Longares; Edurne Martinez del Castillo; Annette Menzel; Renzo Motta; Lena Muffler-Weigel; Paola Nola; Momchil Panayatov; Any Mary Petritan; Ion Catalin Petritan; Ionel Popa; Cǎtǎlin-Constantin Roibu; Álvaro Rubio-Cuadrado; Miloš Rydval; Tobias Scharnweber; J. Julio Camarero; Miroslav Svoboda; Elvin Toromani; Volodymyr Trotsiuk; Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen; Ernst van der Maaten; Robert Weigel; Martin Wilmking; Tzvetan Zlatanov; Anja Rammig; Christian Zang

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321

Journal Articles Science of the Total Environment Year : 2024

Identifying drivers of non-stationary climate-growth relationships of European beech

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Christopher Leifsson

Function : Correspondent author

Technical University of Munich

Allan Buras

Function : Author

Technische Universität Munchen - Technical University Munich - Université Technique de Munich

Stefan Klesse

Function : Author

Swiss Federal Research Institute

Claudia Baittinger

Function : Author

Banzragch Bat-Enerel

Function : Author

Giovanna Battipaglia

Function : Author

Università degli studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" = University of the Study of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

Franco Biondi

Function : Author

University of Nevada [Reno]

Branko Stajić

Function : Author

SILVA

Marius Budeanu

Function : Author

Vojtěch Čada

Function : Author

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Liam Cavin

Function : Author

University of Stirling

Hugues Claessens

Function : Author

Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech [Gembloux]

Katarina Čufar

Function : Author

University of Ljubljana

Martin de Luis

Function : Author

University of Zaragoza - Universidad de Zaragoza [Zaragoza]

Isabel Dorado-Liñán

Function : Author

INIA-CIFOR

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Choimaa Dulamsuren

Function : Author

Balázs Garamszegi

Function : Author

Michael Grabner

Function : Author

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

Andrew Hacket-Pain

Function : Author

University of Liverpool

Jon Kehlet Hansen

Function : Author

University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet

Claudia Hartl

Function : Author

Weiwei Huang

Function : Author

Pavel Janda

Function : Author

Alistair Jump

Function : Author

Marko Kazimirović

Function : Author

Florian Knutzen

Function : Author

Jürgen Kreyling

Function : Author

Alexander Land

Function : Author

Nicolas Latte

Function : Author

François Lebourgeois

Function : Author

SILVA

Christoph Leuschner

Function : Author

Luis Longares

Function : Author

Edurne Martinez del Castillo

Function : Author

Annette Menzel

Function : Author

Renzo Motta

Function : Author

Lena Muffler-Weigel

Function : Author

Paola Nola

Function : Author

Momchil Panayatov

Function : Author

Any Mary Petritan

Function : Author

Ion Catalin Petritan

Function : Author

Ionel Popa

Function : Author

Cǎtǎlin-Constantin Roibu

Function : Author

Álvaro Rubio-Cuadrado

Function : Author

Miloš Rydval

Function : Author

Tobias Scharnweber

Function : Author

J. Julio Camarero

Function : Author

Miroslav Svoboda

Function : Author

Elvin Toromani

Function : Author

Volodymyr Trotsiuk

Function : Author

SILVA

Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen

Function : Author

Ernst van der Maaten

Function : Author

Robert Weigel

Function : Author

Martin Wilmking

Function : Author

Tzvetan Zlatanov

Function : Author

Anja Rammig

Function : Author

Christian Zang

Function : Author

Abstract

The future performance of the widely abundant European beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) across its ecological amplitude is uncertain. Although beech is considered drought -sensitive and thus negatively affected by drought events, scientific evidence indicating increasing drought vulnerability under climate change on a cross -regional scale remains elusive. While evaluating changes in climate sensitivity of secondary growth offers a promising avenue, studies from productive, closed -canopy forests suffer from knowledge gaps, especially regarding the natural variability of climate sensitivity and how it relates to radial growth as an indicator of tree vitality. Since beech is sensitive to drought, we in this study use a drought index as a climate variable to account for the combined effects of temperature and water availability and explore how the drought sensitivity of secondary growth varies temporally in dependence on growth variability, growth trends, and climatic water availability across the species ' ecological amplitude. Our results show that drought sensitivity is highly variable and non -stationary, though consistently higher at dry sites compared to moist sites. Increasing drought sensitivity can largely be explained by increasing climatic aridity, especially as it is exacerbated by climate change and trees ' rank progression within forest communities, as (co -)dominant trees are more sensitive to extra -canopy climatic conditions than trees embedded in understories. However, during the driest periods of the 20th century, growth showed clear signs of being decoupled from climate. This may indicate fundamental changes in system behavior and be early -warning signals of decreasing drought tolerance. The multiple significant interaction terms in our model elucidate the complexity of European beech 's drought sensitivity, which needs to be taken into consideration when assessing this species ' response to climate change.

Keywords

Climate sensitivity Dendroecology Drought Fagus sylvatica Forests Linear mixed-effects models.

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hal-04684844 , version 1 (03-09-2024)

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HAL Id : hal-04684844 , version 1
DOI : 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321
PUBMED : 38782287
WOS : 001250873900001

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Christopher Leifsson, Allan Buras, Stefan Klesse, Claudia Baittinger, Banzragch Bat-Enerel, et al.. Identifying drivers of non-stationary climate-growth relationships of European beech. Science of the Total Environment, 2024, 937, pp.173321. ⟨10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321⟩. ⟨hal-04684844⟩

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