期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 28, 期 5, 页码 1870-1883出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16028
关键词
cavitation resistance; climate change; dendroecology; forest ecology; growth resistance; hotter drought; stomatal control; temperate forests; tree rings; delta C-13
资金
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [319936945/GRK2324]
- Bundesamt fur Naturschutz
- Bundesministerium fur Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit
In 2018, most tree species did not experience reduced growth due to water supply in floodplain forests, but in 2019, all tree species showed significant decreases in growth. The hotter drought in 2018 led to drought legacies in tree growth, which were not observed in former drought years.
Droughts increasingly threaten the world's forests and their potential to mitigate climate change. In 2018-2019, Central European forests were hit by two consecutive hotter drought years, an unprecedented phenomenon that is likely to occur more frequently with climate change. Here, we examine tree growth and physiological stress responses (increase in carbon isotope composition; Delta delta C-13) to this consecutive drought based on tree rings of dominant tree species in a Central European floodplain forest. Tree growth was not reduced for most species in 2018, indicating that water supply in floodplain forests can partly buffer meteorological water deficits. Drought stress responses in 2018 were comparable to former single drought years but the hotter drought in 2018 induced drought legacies in tree growth while former droughts did not. We observed strong decreases in tree growth and increases in Delta delta C-13 across all tree species in 2019, which are likely driven by the cumulative stress both consecutive hotter droughts exerted. Our results show that consecutive hotter droughts pose a novel threat to forests under climate change, even in forest ecosystems with comparably high levels of water supply.
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