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FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.1046462
Keywords
Qinghai spruce; tree-ring width; hydrological gradient; tree species; drought; Hexi area
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- [42130511]
- [41602192]
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This study used dendrochronological approaches to investigate the response of radial growth of Qinghai spruce to climate factors. The findings suggest that Qinghai spruce in different locations in the Hexi area have different sensitivities to climate change, and drought conditions limit the growth of Qinghai spruce.
Radial growth is influenced by the local environment, regional climate, and tree species. Assessing the influence of these variables on radial growth can help to reveal the relationships between tree growth and the environment. Here, we used standard dendrochronological approach to explore the response of radial growth to climate factors. We reported ring-width (TRW) residual chronologies from five sites along a longitudinal gradient in the Hexi area, arid northwestern China, based on a total of 249 Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) ring-width records. We found that Qinghai spruce in the west of the Hexi area is more sensitive to climate change than in the east, and that drought condition in the previous growing season and the early growing season (March to June) limits spruce growth. Comparison between the regional standard chronologies of Qinghai spruce and Qilian juniper (Juniperus przewalskii) in the Hexi area during 1813-2001 showed that both chronologies were more consistent in the high-frequency domain than in the low-frequency domain. The findings emphasize the impacts of local environment, regional climate and tree species on radial growth, suggesting that accounting for these variables could improve large-scale and multi-species dendrochronological studies.
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