Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) depicts annual and decadal oscillatory modes of variability responsible for dry spells over the European continent. The NAO therefore holds a great potential to evaluate the role, as carbon sinks, of water-limited forests under climate change. However, uncertaint...
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ftunivgeneve:oai:unige.ch:aou:unige:101054 2023-10-01T03:57:52+02:00 Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations Madrigal Gonzalez, Jaime Ballesteros Canovas, Juan Antonio Herrero, Asier Ruiz-Benito, Paloma Stoffel, Markus Lucas-Borja, Manuel E. Andivia, Enrique Sancho-García, Cesar Zavala, Miguel A. 2017 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:101054 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1038/s41467-017-02319-0 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:101054 unige:101054 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ISSN: 2041-1723 Nature Communications, vol. 8, no. 1 (2017) 22 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7-333.9 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Text Article scientifique info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftunivgeneve https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02319-0 2023-09-07T07:42:27Z The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) depicts annual and decadal oscillatory modes of variability responsible for dry spells over the European continent. The NAO therefore holds a great potential to evaluate the role, as carbon sinks, of water-limited forests under climate change. However, uncertainties related to inconsistent responses of long-term forest productivity to NAO have so far hampered firm conclusions on its impacts. We hypothesize that, in part, such inconsistencies might have their origin in periodical sea surface temperature anomalies in the Atlantic Ocean (i.e., Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, AMO). Here we show strong empirical evidence in support of this hypothesis using 120 years of periodical inventory data from Iberian pine forests. Our results point to AMO+ NAO+ and AMO−NAO− phases as being critical for forest productivity, likely due to decreased winter water balance and abnormally low winter temperatures, respectively. Our findings could be essential for the evaluation of ecosystem functioning vulnerabilities associated with increased climatic anomalies under unprecedented warming conditions in the Mediterranean. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Université de Genève: Archive ouverte UNIGE Nature Communications 8 1 |
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info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7-333.9 info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550 Madrigal Gonzalez, Jaime Ballesteros Canovas, Juan Antonio Herrero, Asier Ruiz-Benito, Paloma Stoffel, Markus Lucas-Borja, Manuel E. Andivia, Enrique Sancho-García, Cesar Zavala, Miguel A. Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations |
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The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) depicts annual and decadal oscillatory modes of variability responsible for dry spells over the European continent. The NAO therefore holds a great potential to evaluate the role, as carbon sinks, of water-limited forests under climate change. However, uncertainties related to inconsistent responses of long-term forest productivity to NAO have so far hampered firm conclusions on its impacts. We hypothesize that, in part, such inconsistencies might have their origin in periodical sea surface temperature anomalies in the Atlantic Ocean (i.e., Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, AMO). Here we show strong empirical evidence in support of this hypothesis using 120 years of periodical inventory data from Iberian pine forests. Our results point to AMO+ NAO+ and AMO−NAO− phases as being critical for forest productivity, likely due to decreased winter water balance and abnormally low winter temperatures, respectively. Our findings could be essential for the evaluation of ecosystem functioning vulnerabilities associated with increased climatic anomalies under unprecedented warming conditions in the Mediterranean. |
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Madrigal Gonzalez, Jaime Ballesteros Canovas, Juan Antonio Herrero, Asier Ruiz-Benito, Paloma Stoffel, Markus Lucas-Borja, Manuel E. Andivia, Enrique Sancho-García, Cesar Zavala, Miguel A. |
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Madrigal Gonzalez, Jaime Ballesteros Canovas, Juan Antonio Herrero, Asier Ruiz-Benito, Paloma Stoffel, Markus Lucas-Borja, Manuel E. Andivia, Enrique Sancho-García, Cesar Zavala, Miguel A. |
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Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations |
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Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations |
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Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations |
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Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations |
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Forest productivity in southwestern Europe is controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations |
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forest productivity in southwestern europe is controlled by coupled north atlantic and atlantic multidecadal oscillations |
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