Two Nothofagus Species in Southernmost South America Are Recording Divergent Climate Signals

• Published in: Forests
• Main Authors: Soto-Rogel, Pamela, Aravena, Juan Carlos, Villalba, Ricardo, Bringas, Christian, Meier, Wolfgang Jens-Henrik, Gonzalez Reyes, Álvaro, Grießinger, Jussi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
• Subjects: ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION (AAO); CLIMATE; NOTHOFAGUS BETULOIDES; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO; RING-WIDTH INDEX; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Aravena; Cape Horn; Magallanes; Patagonia; Ricardo; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/203075

Recent climatic trends, such as warming temperatures, decrease in rainfall, and extreme weather events (e.g., heatwaves), are negatively affecting the performance of forests. In northern Patagonia, such conditions have caused tree growth reduction, crown dieback, and massive die-back events. However...