Growth of Abies sachalinensis Along an Urban Gradient Affected by Environmental Pollution in Sapporo, Japan
Urban tree growth is often affected by reduced water availability, higher temperatures, small and compacted planting pits, as well as high nutrient and pollution inputs. Despite these hindering growth conditions, recent studies found a surprisingly better growth of urban trees compared to trees at r...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:e7a3b9607f414e078f626177d528db58 2023-05-15T18:09:16+02:00 Growth of Abies sachalinensis Along an Urban Gradient Affected by Environmental Pollution in Sapporo, Japan Astrid Moser-Reischl Thomas Rötzer Peter Biber Matthias Ulbricht Enno Uhl Laiye Qu Takayoshi Koike Hans Pretzsch 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/f10080707 https://doaj.org/article/e7a3b9607f414e078f626177d528db58 EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/8/707 https://doaj.org/toc/1999-4907 1999-4907 doi:10.3390/f10080707 https://doaj.org/article/e7a3b9607f414e078f626177d528db58 Forests, Vol 10, Iss 8, p 707 (2019) air pollution climate change implications oxides urbanity tree growth Plant ecology QK900-989 article 2019 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/f10080707 2022-12-31T14:40:11Z Urban tree growth is often affected by reduced water availability, higher temperatures, small and compacted planting pits, as well as high nutrient and pollution inputs. Despite these hindering growth conditions, recent studies found a surprisingly better growth of urban trees compared to trees at rural sites, and an enhanced growth of trees in recent times. We compared urban versus rural growing Sakhalin fir ( Abies sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) Mast.) trees in Sapporo, northern Japan and analyzed the growth differences between growing sites and the effects of environmental pollution (NO 2 , NO X , SO 2 and O X ) on tree growth. Tree growth was assessed by a dendrochronological study across a gradient from urban to rural sites and related to high detailed environmental pollution data with mixed model approaches and regression analyses. A higher growth of urban trees compared to rural trees was found, along with an overall accelerated growth rate of A. sachalinensis trees over time. Moreover, environmental pollution seems to positively affect tree growth, though with the exception of oxides O X which had strong negative correlations with growth. In conclusion, higher temperatures, changed soil nutrient status, higher risks of water-logging, increased oxide concentrations, as well as higher age negatively affected the growth of rural trees. The future growth of urban A. sachalinensis will provide more insights as to whether the results were induced by environmental pollution and climate or biased on a higher age of rural trees. Nevertheless, the results clearly indicate that environmental pollution, especially in terms of NO 2 and NO X poses no threat to urban tree growth in Sapporo. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sakhalin Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Forests 10 8 707 |
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Urban tree growth is often affected by reduced water availability, higher temperatures, small and compacted planting pits, as well as high nutrient and pollution inputs. Despite these hindering growth conditions, recent studies found a surprisingly better growth of urban trees compared to trees at rural sites, and an enhanced growth of trees in recent times. We compared urban versus rural growing Sakhalin fir ( Abies sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) Mast.) trees in Sapporo, northern Japan and analyzed the growth differences between growing sites and the effects of environmental pollution (NO 2 , NO X , SO 2 and O X ) on tree growth. Tree growth was assessed by a dendrochronological study across a gradient from urban to rural sites and related to high detailed environmental pollution data with mixed model approaches and regression analyses. A higher growth of urban trees compared to rural trees was found, along with an overall accelerated growth rate of A. sachalinensis trees over time. Moreover, environmental pollution seems to positively affect tree growth, though with the exception of oxides O X which had strong negative correlations with growth. In conclusion, higher temperatures, changed soil nutrient status, higher risks of water-logging, increased oxide concentrations, as well as higher age negatively affected the growth of rural trees. The future growth of urban A. sachalinensis will provide more insights as to whether the results were induced by environmental pollution and climate or biased on a higher age of rural trees. Nevertheless, the results clearly indicate that environmental pollution, especially in terms of NO 2 and NO X poses no threat to urban tree growth in Sapporo. |
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