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Pyrenean silver fir forests retain legacies of past disturbances and climate change in their growth, structure and composition / Antonio Gazol in Forests, vol 14 n° 4 (April 2023)  

Public [article]  inForests > vol 14 n° 4 (April 2023) . - n° 713 Titre : Pyrenean silver fir forests retain legacies of past disturbances and climate change in their growth, structure and composition Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Antonio Gazol, Auteur ; Ester González-de-Andrés, Auteur ; Michele Colangelo, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : n° 713 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Abies alba [Termes IGN] croissance des arbres [Termes IGN] dendrochronologie [Termes IGN] dépérissement [Termes IGN] échantillonnage [Termes IGN] Espagne [Termes IGN] historique [Termes IGN] Pyrénées (montagne) [Termes IGN] sécheresse [Termes IGN] sous-étage [Vedettes matières IGN] Végétation et changement climatique Résumé : (auteur) Recent drought-induced dieback alters forest dynamics, which are also shaped by past management. In western Pyrenean silver fir (Abies alba) stands, dieback concurs in space and time with the legacies of past management, but the impacts on forest growth, structure and composition are unknown. We aim to disentangle how dieback interacts with the legacies of past human use and modulates the recent dynamics of silver fir forests. To this end, we sampled eleven silver fir forests across wide climatic gradients and included declining and non-declining sites. We measured radial growth, structure, composition, understory cover and type and amount of deadwood. Silver fir growth declines in response to late-summer drought. In declining sites, most defoliated stands showed the lowest silver fir density and were those where growth depended more on water availability. Tree death enhanced the cover of dominant understory plants such as Buxus sempervirens. Past management activities leave an imprint in the growth of silver fir, such as releases due to past logging, but also affect the number of stumps and snags and the current tree density. A more extensive monitoring will be required to fully disentangle the multiple influences of past management legacies and current climate change on forest dynamics. Numéro de notice : A2023-202 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/f14040713 Date de publication en ligne : 30/03/2023 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/f14040713 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=103104 [article]

Shifting precipitation patterns drive growth variability and drought resilience of European Atlas cedar plantations / J. Julio Camarero in Forests, vol 12 n° 12 (December 2021)  

Public [article]  inForests > vol 12 n° 12 (December 2021) . - n° 1751 Titre : Shifting precipitation patterns drive growth variability and drought resilience of European Atlas cedar plantations Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : J. Julio Camarero, Auteur ; Antonio Gazol, Auteur ; Michele Colangelo, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2021 Article en page(s) : n° 1751 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] Cedrus atlantica [Termes IGN] croissance des arbres [Termes IGN] dendroécologie [Termes IGN] Espagne [Termes IGN] France (administrative) [Termes IGN] précipitation [Termes IGN] saison [Termes IGN] sécheresse [Termes IGN] stress hydrique [Vedettes matières IGN] Végétation et changement climatique Résumé : (auteur) Tree plantations have been proposed as suitable carbon sinks to mitigate climate change. Drought may reduce their carbon uptake, increasing their vulnerability to stress and affecting their growth recovery and resilience. We investigated the recent growth rates and responses to the climate and drought in eight Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) plantations located along a wide climate gradient from wetter sites in south-eastern France and north Spain to dry sites in south-eastern Spain. The cedar growth increased in response to the elevated precipitation from the prior winter to the current summer, but the influence of winter precipitation on growth gained importance in the driest sites. The growth responsiveness to climate and drought peaked in those dry sites, but the growth resilience did not show a similar gradient. The Atlas cedar growth was driven by the total precipitation during the hydrological year and this association strengthened from the 1980s onwards, a pattern related to the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). High winter NAO indices and drier conditions were associated with lower growth. At the individual level, growth resilience was related to tree age, while growth recovery and year-to-year growth variability covaried. Plantations’ resilience to drought depends on both climate and tree-level features. Numéro de notice : A2021-126 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/f12121751 Date de publication en ligne : 11/12/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/f12121751 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99319 [article]