Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s
Growing evidence suggests environmental change to be most severe across the semi-arid subtropics, with past, present and projected drying of the Mediterranean Basin posing a key multidisciplinary challenge. Consideration of a single climatic factor, however, often fails to explain spatiotemporal gro...
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ftdatacite:10.7892/boris.49651 2023-05-15T17:33:29+02:00 Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s Rigling, Andreas Fatton, Vincent Büntgen, Ulf Aldea, Jorge Egli, Simon Martínez-Peña, Fernando Camarero, J. Julio Hayes, Michael J. Fischer, Erich M. 2013 application/pdf https://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.49651 http://boris.unibe.ch/49651/ en eng Elsevier Science info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess 910 Geography & travel CreativeWork article 2013 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.49651 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Growing evidence suggests environmental change to be most severe across the semi-arid subtropics, with past, present and projected drying of the Mediterranean Basin posing a key multidisciplinary challenge. Consideration of a single climatic factor, however, often fails to explain spatiotemporal growth dynamics of drought-prone ecosystems. Here, we present annually resolved and absolutely dated ring width measurements of 871 Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris) from 18 individual plot sites in the Central Spanish Pinar Grande forest reserve. Although comprising tree ages from 6 to 175 years, this network correlates surprisingly well with the inverse May–July diurnal temperature range (r = 0.84; p < 0.00011956–2011). Ring width extremes were triggered by pressure anomalies of the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the long-term growth decline coincided with Iberian-wide drying since the mid-1970s. Climate model simulations not only confirm this negative trend over the last decades but also project drought to continuously increase over the 21st century. Associated ecological effects and socio-economic consequences should be considered to improve adaptation strategies of agricultural and forest management, as well as biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Growing evidence suggests environmental change to be most severe across the semi-arid subtropics, with past, present and projected drying of the Mediterranean Basin posing a key multidisciplinary challenge. Consideration of a single climatic factor, however, often fails to explain spatiotemporal growth dynamics of drought-prone ecosystems. Here, we present annually resolved and absolutely dated ring width measurements of 871 Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris) from 18 individual plot sites in the Central Spanish Pinar Grande forest reserve. Although comprising tree ages from 6 to 175 years, this network correlates surprisingly well with the inverse May–July diurnal temperature range (r = 0.84; p < 0.00011956–2011). Ring width extremes were triggered by pressure anomalies of the North Atlantic Oscillation, and the long-term growth decline coincided with Iberian-wide drying since the mid-1970s. Climate model simulations not only confirm this negative trend over the last decades but also project drought to continuously increase over the 21st century. Associated ecological effects and socio-economic consequences should be considered to improve adaptation strategies of agricultural and forest management, as well as biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service. |
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Rigling, Andreas Fatton, Vincent Büntgen, Ulf Aldea, Jorge Egli, Simon Martínez-Peña, Fernando Camarero, J. Julio Hayes, Michael J. Fischer, Erich M. |
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Rigling, Andreas Fatton, Vincent Büntgen, Ulf Aldea, Jorge Egli, Simon Martínez-Peña, Fernando Camarero, J. Julio Hayes, Michael J. Fischer, Erich M. |
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Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s |
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Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s |
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Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s |
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Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s |
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Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s |
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declining pine growth in central spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s |
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Elsevier Science |
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2013 |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.7892/boris.49651 http://boris.unibe.ch/49651/ |
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North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation |
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North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation |
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