Tree growth patterns associated with extreme longevity: Implications for the ecology and conservation of primeval trees in Mediterranean mountains

• Published in: Anthropocene
• Main Authors: Gianluca Piovesan, Franco Biondi, Michele Baliva, Anna Dinella, Luca Di Fiore, Vittoria Marchiano, Emanuele Presutti Saba, Giuseppe De Vivo, Aldo Schettino, Alfredo Di Filippo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: old trees; cliff habitat; tree growth pattern; North Atlantic Oscillation; Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; rewilding; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Stepping Stones
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100199

We dendrochronologically analyzed 177 Heldreich’s pines growing on the Pollino Massif, in southern Italy, for understanding climatic and human impacts on old trees. Most of the large diameter trees currently living became established in the late Medieval to Renaissance periods under a snowy wet clim...