Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species.
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Authors
Hacket-Pain, Andrew J
Ascoli, Davide
Vacchiano, Giorgio
Biondi, Franco
Cavin, Liam
Conedera, Marco
Drobyshev, Igor
Liñán, Isabel Dorado
Friend, Andrew D
Grabner, Michael
Hartl, Claudia
Kreyling, Juergen
Lebourgeois, François
Levanič, Tom
Menzel, Annette
van der Maaten, Ernst
van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marieke
Muffler, Lena
Motta, Renzo
Roibu, Catalin-Constantin
Popa, Ionel
Scharnweber, Tobias
Weigel, Robert
Wilmking, Martin
Zang, Christian S
Publication Date
2018-12Journal Title
Ecol Lett
ISSN
1461-023X
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
21
Issue
12
Pages
1833-1844
Language
eng
Type
Article
Physical Medium
Print-Electronic
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Hacket-Pain, A. J., Ascoli, D., Vacchiano, G., Biondi, F., Cavin, L., Conedera, M., Drobyshev, I., et al. (2018). Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species.. Ecol Lett, 21 (12), 1833-1844. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13158
Abstract
Climatically controlled allocation to reproduction is a key mechanism by which climate influences tree growth and may explain lagged correlations between climate and growth. We used continent-wide datasets of tree-ring chronologies and annual reproductive effort in Fagus sylvatica from 1901 to 2015 to characterise relationships between climate, reproduction and growth. Results highlight that variable allocation to reproduction is a key factor for growth in this species, and that high reproductive effort ('mast years') is associated with stem growth reduction. Additionally, high reproductive effort is associated with previous summer temperature, creating lagged climate effects on growth. Consequently, understanding growth variability in forest ecosystems requires the incorporation of reproduction, which can be highly variable. Our results suggest that future response of growth dynamics to climate change in this species will be strongly influenced by the response of reproduction.
Keywords
Fagus sylvatica, SEM, Dendrochronology, European beech, drought, forest growth, masting, path analysis, structural equation modelling, trade-off, Climate Change, Fagus, Forests, Reproduction, Trees
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13158
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285576
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