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ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE
卷 70, 期 2, 页码 185-193出版社
SPRINGER FRANCE
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-012-0241-0
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Tree rings; Dendrochronology; Climate-growth relationships
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- Landesgraduiertenforderung Baden-Wurttemberg
- EU-FP7 project MOTIVE [226544]
For Central Europe, climate projections foresee an increase in temperature combined with decreasing summer precipitation, resulting in drier conditions during the growing season. This might negatively affect forest growth, especially at sites that are already water-limited, i.e., at low elevation. At higher altitudes trees might profit from increasing temperatures. We analyzed variations in radial growth of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) along an altitudinal gradient from 400 until 1,140 m a.s.l. in the Black Forest, to assess climate responses with increasing elevation. Climate-growth relationships were analyzed retrospectively using tree-ring and climate data. In total, we sampled stem discs of 135 trees to build 27 species- and site-specific chronologies (n (fir) = 13, n (spruce) = 14). Our results indicate distinct differences in climate-growth relations between fir and spruce along the gradient. Growth of high-altitude fir was positively related to temperature from January till March. Growth of low-altitude fir and spruce at all elevations was positively related to precipitation and negatively to temperature during the growing season, particularly in July. A self-calibrating Palmer drought severity index underlined summer drought sensitivity of these trees. Overall, we found that climatic control of tree growth changes over altitude for fir. For spruce, a remarkable synchrony in growth variation and climate response was shown, which indicates that this species is drought sensitive at all studied elevations. In a future warmer climate, the growth of low-altitude fir and spruce along the entire studied gradient may be negatively affected in the Black Forest, if an increased evaporative demand cannot be compensated by increased water supply.
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