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Journal Articles Global Change Biology Year : 2016

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

Maxime Cailleret (1) , Steven Jansen (2) , Elisabeth M. R. Robert (3) , Lucia Desoto (4) , Tuomas Aakala (5) , Joseph A. Antos (6) , Barbara Beikircher (7) , Christof Bigler (1) , Harald Bugmann (1) , Marco Caccianiga (8) , Vojtech Cada (9) , Jesus J. Camarero (10) , Paolo Cherubini (11) , Hervé Cochard (12) , Marie R. Coyea (13) , Katarina Cufar (14) , Adrian J. Das (15) , Hendrik Davi (16) , Sylvain Delzon (17) , Michael Dorman (18) , Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo (19) , Sten Gillner (20) , Laurel J. Haavik (21) , Henrik Hartmann (22) , Ana-Maria Heres (3) , Kevin R. Hultine (23) , Pavel Janda (9) , Jeffrey M. Kane (24) , Vyacheslav I. Kharuk (25) , Thomas Kitzberger (26) , Tamir Klein (27) , Koen Kramer (28) , Frederic Lens (29) , Tom Levanic (30) , Juan C. Linares Calderon (31) , Francisco Lloret (3) , Raquel Lobo-Do-Vale (32) , Fabio Lombardi (33) , Rosa Ana Lopez Rodriguez (12) , Harri Makinen (34) , Stefan Mayr (7) , Ilona Meszaros (35) , Juha M. Metsaranta (36) , Francesco Minunno (37) , Walter Oberhuber (7) , Andreas Papadopoulos (37) , Mikko Peltoniemi (34) , Any M. Petritan (11) , Brigitte Rohner (38) , Gabriel Sanguesa-Barreda (10) , Dimitrios Sarris (39) , Jeremy M. Smith (40) , Amanda B. Stan (41) , Frank Sterck (28) , Dejan B. Stojanovic (42) , Maria L. Suarez (43) , Miroslav Svoboda (9) , Roberto Tognetti (44) , Jose Manuel Torres Ruiz (17) , Volodymyr Trotsiuk (9) , Ricardo Villalba (45) , Floor Vodde (46) , Alana R. Westwood (47) , Peter H. Wyckoff (48) , Nikolay Zafirov (49) , Jordi Martinez-Vilalta (3)
1 ITES - Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems
2 Universität Ulm - Ulm University [Ulm, Allemagne]
3 CREAF - Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals
4 University of Coimbra
5 Helsingin yliopisto = Helsingfors universitet = University of Helsinki
6 UVIC - University of Victoria [Canada]
7 Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck - University of Innsbruck
8 UNIMI - Università degli Studi di Milano = University of Milan
9 CZU - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
10 IPE - CSIC - Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologìa = Pyrenean Institute of Ecology [Zaragoza]
11 Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
12 PIAF - Laboratoire de Physique et Physiologie Intégratives de l'Arbre Fruitier et Forestier
13 ULaval - Université Laval [Québec]
14 University of Ljubljana
15 Western Ecological Research Center
16 URFM - Ecologie des Forêts Méditerranéennes
17 BioGeCo - Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés
18 BGU - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
19 INIA - Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria = National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology
20 Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology
21 University of Arkansas [Fayetteville]
22 MPI-BGC - Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
23 Desert Botanical Garden
24 HSU - Humboldt State University
25 Sukachev Institute of Forest
26 UNCOMA - Universidad Nacional del Comahue [Neuquén]
27 Agricultural Research Organization
28 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
29 Universiteit Leiden = Leiden University
30 Slovenian Forestry Institute
31 UPO - Universidad Pablo de Olavide [Sevilla]
32 ULISBOA - Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon = Université de Lisbonne
33 Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria
34 LUKE - Natural Resources Institute Finland
35 University of Debrecen
36 Northern Forestry centre
37 Technological Educational Institute of Kavala
38 Institute of Terretrial Ecosystems
39 Open University of Cyprus
40 Department of Physics [Boulder]
41 Northern Arizona University [Flagstaff]
42 University of Novi Sad
43 CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires]
44 UNIMOL - Università degli Studi del Molise = University of Molise
45 Instituto Argentino de Nivologia
46 EMU - Estonian University of Life Sciences
47 University of Alberta
48 UMN - University of Minnesota System
49 Софийски университет = Sofia University
Maxime Cailleret
Harald Bugmann
Hendrik Davi
Tamir Klein
Ricardo Villalba

Abstract

Tree mortality is a key factor influencing forest functions and dynamics, but our understanding of the mechanisms leading to mortality and the associated changes in tree growth rates are still limited. We compiled a new pan-continental tree-ring width database from sites where both dead and living trees were sampled (2970 dead and 4224 living trees from 190 sites, including 36 species), and compared early and recent growth rates between trees that died and those that survived a given mortality event. We observed a decrease in radial growth before death in ca. 84% of the mortality events. The extent and duration of these reductions were highly variable (1-100years in 96% of events) due to the complex interactions among study species and the source(s) of mortality. Strong and long-lasting declines were found for gymnosperms, shade- and drought-tolerant species, and trees that died from competition. Angiosperms and trees that died due to biotic attacks (especially bark-beetles) typically showed relatively small and short-term growth reductions. Our analysis did not highlight any universal trade-off between early growth and tree longevity within a species, although this result may also reflect high variability in sampling design among sites. The intersite and interspecific variability in growth patterns before mortality provides valuable information on the nature of the mortality process, which is consistent with our understanding of the physiological mechanisms leading to mortality. Abrupt changes in growth immediately before death can be associated with generalized hydraulic failure and/or bark-beetle attack, while long-term decrease in growth may be associated with a gradual decline in hydraulic performance coupled with depletion in carbon reserves. Our results imply that growth-based mortality algorithms may be a powerful tool for predicting gymnosperm mortality induced by chronic stress, but not necessarily so for angiosperms and in case of intense drought or bark-beetle outbreaks.
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hal-01506661 , version 1 (01-01-2024)

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Maxime Cailleret, Steven Jansen, Elisabeth M. R. Robert, Lucia Desoto, Tuomas Aakala, et al.. A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality. Global Change Biology, 2016, 23 (4), 16 p. ⟨10.1111/gcb.13535⟩. ⟨hal-01506661⟩
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