Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests
Abstract Forest research has addressed the importance of an improved understanding of drought–stocks interactions in the dry edge of tree species range. Nonetheless, more efforts are still critically needed to link up the multiple ways by which climatic stressors can trigger tree mortality, includin...
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crwiley:10.1002/ecs2.3201 2024-09-15T18:23:45+00:00 Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests Madrigal‐González, Jaime Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan A. Zavala, Miguel A. Morales‐Molino, César Stoffel, Markus Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3201 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fecs2.3201 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3201 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ecs2.3201 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3201 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Ecosphere volume 11, issue 8 ISSN 2150-8925 2150-8925 journal-article 2020 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3201 2024-08-15T04:20:16Z Abstract Forest research has addressed the importance of an improved understanding of drought–stocks interactions in the dry edge of tree species range. Nonetheless, more efforts are still critically needed to link up the multiple ways by which climatic stressors can trigger tree mortality, including population‐level determinants and management. Here, we analyze the interactive effects of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a surrogate of climatic variability in southwestern Europe, and forest stocks on tree mortality in dry‐edge populations of the most widespread Eurasian tree species, Pinus sylvestris L., in the forest of Valsaín (central Spain). Specifically, we use tree mortality data gathered since 1941 in six multiannual periods. Results suggest that the main mortality risks in these forests can occur either in positive or negative NAO phases, but that their relative impacts are critically mediated by forest structure. In NAO + periods, commonly associated with warm–dry conditions in the Iberian Peninsula, a peak of mortality was found in closed forest sections, whereas the second peak, found in open forest sections, was related to NAO ‐ periods, correlated with temperate‐rainy weather conditions. This finding reinforces the key role of management—through its control on forest structure—as a driver of forest vulnerability to climate. Accounting for the multiple ways in which stocks modulate tree responses to different risks emerges as a critical element when it comes to the design of efficient adaptation measures in managed dry‐edge forests. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Wiley Online Library Ecosphere 11 8 |
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Abstract Forest research has addressed the importance of an improved understanding of drought–stocks interactions in the dry edge of tree species range. Nonetheless, more efforts are still critically needed to link up the multiple ways by which climatic stressors can trigger tree mortality, including population‐level determinants and management. Here, we analyze the interactive effects of North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a surrogate of climatic variability in southwestern Europe, and forest stocks on tree mortality in dry‐edge populations of the most widespread Eurasian tree species, Pinus sylvestris L., in the forest of Valsaín (central Spain). Specifically, we use tree mortality data gathered since 1941 in six multiannual periods. Results suggest that the main mortality risks in these forests can occur either in positive or negative NAO phases, but that their relative impacts are critically mediated by forest structure. In NAO + periods, commonly associated with warm–dry conditions in the Iberian Peninsula, a peak of mortality was found in closed forest sections, whereas the second peak, found in open forest sections, was related to NAO ‐ periods, correlated with temperate‐rainy weather conditions. This finding reinforces the key role of management—through its control on forest structure—as a driver of forest vulnerability to climate. Accounting for the multiple ways in which stocks modulate tree responses to different risks emerges as a critical element when it comes to the design of efficient adaptation measures in managed dry‐edge forests. |
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Madrigal‐González, Jaime Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan A. Zavala, Miguel A. Morales‐Molino, César Stoffel, Markus Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests |
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Madrigal‐González, Jaime Ballesteros‐Cánovas, Juan A. Zavala, Miguel A. Morales‐Molino, César Stoffel, Markus |
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Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests |
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Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests |
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Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests |
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Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests |
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Forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in Scots pine dry‐edge forests |
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forest stocks control long‐term climatic mortality risks in scots pine dry‐edge forests |
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