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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]

Tree growth, wood anatomy and carbon and oxygen isotopes responses to drought in Mediterranean riparian forests / J. Julio Camarero in Forest ecology and management, vol 529 (February-1 2023)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 529 (February-1 2023) . - n° 120710 Titre : Tree growth, wood anatomy and carbon and oxygen isotopes responses to drought in Mediterranean riparian forests Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : J. Julio Camarero, Auteur ; Michele Colangelo, Auteur ; Patricia M. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2023 Article en page(s) : n° 120710 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] anatomie du bois [Termes IGN] bois mort [Termes IGN] croissance des arbres [Termes IGN] dendrochronologie [Termes IGN] Espagne [Termes IGN] forêt méditerranéenne [Termes IGN] forêt ripicole [Termes IGN] Fraxinus angustifolia [Termes IGN] humidité du sol [Termes IGN] isotope [Termes IGN] Populus alba [Termes IGN] Populus nigra [Termes IGN] puits de carbone [Termes IGN] sécheresse [Termes IGN] Ulmus minor [Vedettes matières IGN] Végétation et changement climatique Résumé : (auteur) Mediterranean riparian forests have been altered by past use and are also negatively impacted by climate and hydrological droughts. However, we lack data on their historical changes in extent combined with multi-proxy, long-term assessments of tree growth and leaf gas exchange responses to climate, drought severity and river flow. These evaluations must also consider their current stand structure and the amount of lying deadwood which are proxies of river dynamics and forest maturity. To fill these research gaps, we studied four riparian tree species (Populus alba, Populus nigra, Fraxinus angustifolia and Ulmus minor) inhabiting a Mediterranean riparian forest located in north-eastern Spain. We quantified and analyzed: stand structure; lying deadwood; radial growth; relationships between growth, climate variables, the SPEI drought index and river flow; stable C (δ13C) and O (δ18O) isotopes in wood of P. alba, P. nigra and F. angustifolia; and earlywood anatomy in F. angustifolia. Mature sites were dominated by P. nigra and F. angustifolia and showed the highest amount of decayed lying deadwood. Radial growth was reduced by drought and low spring-summer river flow. We found the highest growth responses to 3- (P. nigra, r = 0.62; P. alba, r = 0.46) or 12-month SPEI (F. angustifolia, r = 0.54; U. minor, r = 0.53). The coordinated decrease in δ18O and intrinsic water-use efficiency (WUE) in P. alba and P. nigra could involve an increase in stomatal conductance rate. P. alba and P. nigra were more enriched in δ18O than F. angustifolia, suggesting the former used more enriched shallow groundwater in dry periods. The F. angustifolia WUE and P. nigra δ18O series were positively and negatively correlated with the SPEI, respectively. The F. angustifolia hydraulic diameter decreased in response to drought, whereas its vessel density and WUE were positively associated. Overall, P. nigra and F. angustifolia were the species most responsive to drought. Numéro de notice : A2023-106 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120710 Date de publication en ligne : 15/12/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120710 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=102438 [article]

Tree mortality caused by Diplodia shoot blight on Pinus sylvestris and other mediterranean pines / Maria Caballol in Forest ecology and management, vol 505 (February-1 2022)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 505 (February-1 2022) . - n° 119935 Titre : Tree mortality caused by Diplodia shoot blight on Pinus sylvestris and other mediterranean pines Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Maria Caballol, Auteur ; Maia Ridley, Auteur ; Michele Colangelo, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 119935 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] dendrochronologie [Termes IGN] dépérissement [Termes IGN] endophyte [Termes IGN] épidémie [Termes IGN] Espagne [Termes IGN] grêle [Termes IGN] houppier [Termes IGN] maladie cryptogamique [Termes IGN] mortalité [Termes IGN] Pinus halepensis [Termes IGN] Pinus nigra [Termes IGN] Pinus pinea [Termes IGN] Pinus sylvestris [Termes IGN] santé des forêts [Termes IGN] sécheresse [Vedettes matières IGN] Végétation et changement climatique Résumé : (auteur) Diplodia shoot blight is an emergent forest disease in Europe caused by Diplodia sapinea. The short-term impacts of the pathogen on tree physiology are well known, but its capacity to cause mortality has been poorly documented. We compared the survival of four pine species affected by Diplodia shoot blight following a hailstorm: Pinus sylvestris, P. nigra, P. pinea and P. halepensis. In the case of P. sylvestris, survival in the hail-affected sites was compared with survival in other sites affected by Diplodia shoot blight with no hailstorm records. Mortality and crown condition were recorded over two years. Dendrochronological analyses were conducted to assess growth responses to drought and to test the influence of radial growth before the outbreak of Diplodia shoot blight on survival. The endophytic community, as well as the abundance of D. sapinea, was quantified by metabarcoding and qPCR respectively, and were correlated with crown damage. Crown damage was the best predictor of mortality across species. Pinus sylvestris experienced a much higher rate of mortality than P. nigra, P. pinea and P. halepensis. Two years after the outbreak, P. halepensis was the only species that could recover crown condition. Mortality was found to be unrelated to radial growth prior the outbreak. Drought responses did not correlate with mortality differences across pine species or sites. In the case of P. sylvestris, mortality was initially higher amongst diseased trees in areas affected by hailstorms than in sites not affected by hailstorms, however it tended to equalise after two years. Amongst P. sylvestris trees, crown damage correlated with a higher abundance of the pathogen. Signs of competition amongst endophytes were observed between non-defoliated and defoliated Scots pine trees following hailstorms. Our study shows that D. sapinea can cause a significant mortality to P. sylvestris. The legacy effects of crown damage can last for at least two years after an outbreak. During this time, crown damage is a good predictor of survival, and can help managers decide which trees remove after an outbreak. Numéro de notice : A2022-042 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119935 Date de publication en ligne : 23/12/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119935 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99400 [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]