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Leifsson C, Buras A, Klesse S, Baittinger C, Bat-Enerel B, Battipaglia G, Biondi F, Stajić B, Budeanu M, Čada V, Camarero JJ, Cavin L, Claessens H, Čufar K, de Luis M, Dorado-Liñán I, Dulamsuren C, Garamszegi B, Grabner M, Hacket-Pain A, Hansen JK, Hartl C, Huang W, Janda P, Jump AS, Kazimirović M, Knutzen F, Kreyling J, Land A, Latte N, Lebourgeois F, Leuschner C, Longares LA, Del Castillo EM, Menzel A, Motta R, Muffler-Weigel L, Nola P, Panayatov M, Petritan AM, Petritan IC, Popa I, Roibu CC, Rubio-Cuadrado Á, Rydval M, Scharnweber T, Svoboda M, Toromani E, Trotsiuk V, van der Maaten-Theunissen M, van der Maaten E, Weigel R, Wilmking M, Zlatanov T, Rammig A, Zang C. Identifying drivers of non-stationary climate-growth relationships of European beech. Sci Total Environ 2024:173321. [PMID: 38782287 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2024] [Revised: 05/15/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
Abstract
The future performance of the widely abundant European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) across its ecological amplitude is uncertain. Although beech is considered drought-sensitive and thus negatively affected by drought events, scientific evidence indicating increasing drought vulnerability under climate change on a cross-regional scale remains elusive. While evaluating changes in climate sensitivity of secondary growth offers a promising avenue, studies from productive, closed-canopy forests suffer from knowledge gaps, especially regarding the natural variability of climate sensitivity and how it relates to radial growth as an indicator of tree vitality. Since beech is sensitive to drought, we in this study use a drought index as a climate variable to account for the combined effects of temperature and water availability and explore how the drought sensitivity of secondary growth varies temporally in dependence on growth variability, growth trends, and climatic water availability across the species' ecological amplitude. Our results show that drought sensitivity is highly variable and non-stationary, though consistently higher at dry sites compared to moist sites. Increasing drought sensitivity can largely be explained by increasing climatic aridity, especially as it is exacerbated by climate change and trees' rank progression within forest communities, as (co-)dominant trees are more sensitive to extra-canopy climatic conditions than trees embedded in understories. However, during the driest periods of the 20th century, growth showed clear signs of being decoupled from climate. This may indicate fundamental changes in system behavior and be early-warning signals of decreasing drought tolerance. The multiple significant interaction terms in our model elucidate the complexity of European beech's drought sensitivity, which needs to be taken into consideration when assessing this species' response to climate change.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher Leifsson
- Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Professorship for Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Hans-Carl-v.-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany.
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- Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Professorship for Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Hans-Carl-v.-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- The National Museum of Denmark, Environmental Archaeology and Materials Science, I.C. Modewegs Vej 11, DK - 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Plant Ecology, University of Goettingen, 37073 Goettingen, Germany; Applied Vegetation Ecology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- DendroLab, Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
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- University of Belgrade, Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry Marin Dracea, 13 Closca street, Brasov, Romania
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, Praha 6, Suchdol 16521, Czech Republic
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE), CSIC, Avda. Montañana 1005, 50080 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
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- Forest is Life, ULiège, Passage des Déportés 2, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Wood Science and Technology, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Dpto. de Geografía y Ordenación del Territorio, IUCA, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna s/n, 50009 Zaragoza. Spain
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- Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Applied Vegetation Ecology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Geography and Planning, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Nature Rings - Environmental Research & Education, 55118 Mainz, Germany
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Sustainable Forestry in Southern China of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, Praha 6, Suchdol 16521, Czech Republic
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
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- Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
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- University of Greifswald, Experimental Plant Ecology, Soldmannstraße 15, 17498 Greifswald, Germany
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- University of Hohenheim, Institute of Biology (190a), Garbenstraße 30, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Forest is Life, ULiège, Passage des Déportés 2, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium
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- Dpto. de Geografía y Ordenación del Territorio, IUCA, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/ Pedro Cerbuna s/n, 50009 Zaragoza. Spain
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- Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Professorship for Ecoclimatology, Hans-Carl-v.-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Department of Agricoltural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
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- Ecological-Botanical Garden, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, Via S. Epifanio 14, I-27100 Pavia, Italy
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- University of Forestry, Dendrology Department, Forest Faculty, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry Marin Dracea, 13 Closca street, Brasov, Romania
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- Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Transilvania University of Braşov, Braşov, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry Marin Dracea, 13 Closca street, Brasov, Romania; Center for Mountain Economy (CE-MONT), Vatra Dornei, Romania
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- Forest Biometrics Laboratory, Faculty of Forestry, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Universitatii street, no. 13, Suceava RO720229, Romania
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- Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, Praha 6, Suchdol 16521, Czech Republic
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- Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Kamycka 129, Praha 6, Suchdol 16521, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forestry, Agricultural University Tirana, Tirana, Albania
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Ecological-Botanical Garden, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Gagarin Street, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Technical University of Munich School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Professorship for Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Hans-Carl-v.-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, Department of Forestry, Hans-Carl-v.-Carlowitz-Platz 3, 85354 Freising, Germany
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Jevšenak J, Klisz M, Mašek J, Čada V, Janda P, Svoboda M, Vostarek O, Treml V, van der Maaten E, Popa A, Popa I, van der Maaten-Theunissen M, Zlatanov T, Scharnweber T, Ahlgrimm S, Stolz J, Sochová I, Roibu CC, Pretzsch H, Schmied G, Uhl E, Kaczka R, Wrzesiński P, Šenfeldr M, Jakubowski M, Tumajer J, Wilmking M, Obojes N, Rybníček M, Lévesque M, Potapov A, Basu S, Stojanović M, Stjepanović S, Vitas A, Arnič D, Metslaid S, Neycken A, Prislan P, Hartl C, Ziche D, Horáček P, Krejza J, Mikhailov S, Světlík J, Kalisty A, Kolář T, Lavnyy V, Hordo M, Oberhuber W, Levanič T, Mészáros I, Schneider L, Lehejček J, Shetti R, Bošeľa M, Copini P, Koprowski M, Sass-Klaassen U, Izmir ŞC, Bakys R, Entner H, Esper J, Janecka K, Martinez Del Castillo E, Verbylaite R, Árvai M, de Sauvage JC, Čufar K, Finner M, Hilmers T, Kern Z, Novak K, Ponjarac R, Puchałka R, Schuldt B, Škrk Dolar N, Tanovski V, Zang C, Žmegač A, Kuithan C, Metslaid M, Thurm E, Hafner P, Krajnc L, Bernabei M, Bojić S, Brus R, Burger A, D'Andrea E, Đorem T, Gławęda M, Gričar J, Gutalj M, Horváth E, Kostić S, Matović B, Merela M, Miletić B, Morgós A, Paluch R, Pilch K, Rezaie N, Rieder J, Schwab N, Sewerniak P, Stojanović D, Ullmann T, Waszak N, Zin E, Skudnik M, Oštir K, Rammig A, Buras A. Incorporating high-resolution climate, remote sensing and topographic data to map annual forest growth in central and eastern Europe. Sci Total Environ 2024; 913:169692. [PMID: 38160816 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
Abstract
To enhance our understanding of forest carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation and drought impact on forest ecosystems, the availability of high-resolution annual forest growth maps based on tree-ring width (TRW) would provide a significant advancement to the field. Site-specific characteristics, which can be approximated by high-resolution Earth observation by satellites (EOS), emerge as crucial drivers of forest growth, influencing how climate translates into tree growth. EOS provides information on surface reflectance related to forest characteristics and thus can potentially improve the accuracy of forest growth models based on TRW. Through the modelling of TRW using EOS, climate and topography data, we showed that species-specific models can explain up to 52 % of model variance (Quercus petraea), while combining different species results in relatively poor model performance (R2 = 13 %). The integration of EOS into models based solely on climate and elevation data improved the explained variance by 6 % on average. Leveraging these insights, we successfully generated a map of annual TRW for the year 2021. We employed the area of applicability (AOA) approach to delineate the range in which our models are deemed valid. The calculated AOA for the established forest-type models was 73 % of the study region, indicating robust spatial applicability. Notably, unreliable predictions predominantly occurred in the climate margins of our dataset. In conclusion, our large-scale assessment underscores the efficacy of combining climate, EOS and topographic data to develop robust models for mapping annual TRW. This research not only fills a critical void in the current understanding of forest growth dynamics but also highlights the potential of integrated data sources for comprehensive ecosystem assessments.
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- Jernej Jevšenak
- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia.
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Silviculture and Forest Tree Genetics, Forest Research Institute, Poland
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea", Romania; Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea", Romania
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, Germany; Department of Forest Planning/Forest Research/Information Systems, Research Unit Silviculture and Forest Growth, Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Forest Biometrics Laboratory, Faculty of Forestry, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Germany
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Silviculture and Forest Tree Genetics, Forest Research Institute, Poland
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Utilisation, Faculty of Forest and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Silviculture Group, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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- Chair of Forest and Land Management and Wood Processing Technologies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department for Forest Technique and Economics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Chair of Forest and Land Management and Wood Processing Technologies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Silviculture Group, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department for Forest Technique and Economics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Nature Rings - Environmental Research and Education, Germany; Panel on Planetary Thinking, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
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- Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Department of Silviculture, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Ukraine
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- Chair of Forest and Land Management and Wood Processing Technologies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia; Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, Slovenia
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Geography, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
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- Department of Environment, Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic
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- Department of Environment, Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Management Planning and Informatics, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management (FEM), Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland; Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management (FEM), Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; van Hall Larenstein Applied University, the Netherlands
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- Department of Forest Botany, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
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- Department of Forestry, Kaunas Forestry and Environmental Engineering University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany; Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
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- Institute for Soil Sciences, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungary
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary; CSFK, MTA Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland; Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Hans Em, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius, University in Skopje, North Macedonia
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Department of Forestry, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Department of Forestry, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Department of Forest Planning/Forest Research/Information Systems, Research Unit Silviculture and Forest Growth, Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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- Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council, Italy
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy; National Biodiversity Future Centre - NBFC, Italy
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Stefan Żeromski High School No 2 with Bilingual Departments in Sieradz, Poland
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- Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute (IBL), Poland
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute (IBL), Poland
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- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
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- Centre for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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- Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute (IBL), Poland; Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden
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- Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia; Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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Pavlin J, Nagel TA, Svitok M, Di Filippo A, Mikac S, Keren S, Dikku A, Toromani E, Panayotov M, Zlatanov T, Haruta O, Dorog S, Chaskovskyy O, Bače R, Begović K, Buechling A, Dušátko M, Frankovič M, Janda P, Kameniar O, Kozák D, Marchand W, Mikoláš M, Rodrigo R, Svoboda M. Pathways and drivers of canopy accession across primary temperate forests of Europe. Sci Total Environ 2024; 906:167593. [PMID: 37802334 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Revised: 10/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/08/2023]
Abstract
Canopy accession strategies reveal much about tree life histories and forest stand dynamics. However, the protracted nature of ascending to the canopy makes direct observation challenging. We use a reconstructive approach based on an extensive tree ring database to study the variability of canopy accession patterns of dominant tree species (Abies alba, Acer pseudoplatanus, Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies) in temperate mountain forests of Europe and elucidate how disturbance histories, climate, and topography affect canopy accession. All four species exhibited high variability of radial growth histories leading to canopy accession and indicated varying levels of shade tolerance. Individuals of all four species survived at least 100 years of initial suppression. Fir and particularly beech, however, survived longer periods of initial suppression, exhibited more release events, and reached the canopy later on average, with a larger share of trees accessing the canopy after initially suppressed growth. These results indicate the superior shade tolerance of beech and fir compared to spruce and maple. The two less shade-tolerant species conversely relied on faster growth rates, revealing their competitive advantage in non-suppressed conditions. Additionally, spruce from higher-elevation spruce-dominated forests survived shorter periods of initial shading and exhibited fewer releases, with a larger share of trees reaching the canopy after open canopy recruitment (i.e. in absence of suppression) and no subsequent releases compared to spruce growing in lower-elevation mixed forests. Finally, disturbance factors were identified as the primary driver of canopy accession, whereby disturbances accelerate canopy accession and consequently regulate competitive interactions. Intensifying disturbance regimes could thus promote shifts in species composition, particularly in favour of faster-growing, more light-demanding species.
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- Jakob Pavlin
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 83, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Biology and General Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Masaryka 24, 96053 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Via SC de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Al. 29 Listopada 46, 31-425 Kraków, Poland
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- Faculty of Forestry Sciences, Agricultural University of Tirana, 1029 Koder-Kamez, Albania
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- Department of Dendrology, University of Forestry Sofia, Kliment Ohridski 10 Blvd., 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Gagarin Street 2, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Forestry and Forest Engineering Department, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
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- Forestry and Forest Engineering Department, University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania
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- Institute of Forest Management, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Vul. Henerala Chuprynky 103, 79031 Lviv, Ukraine
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcka 129, 165 21 Prague, Czech Republic
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Bosela M, Rubio-Cuadrado Á, Marcis P, Merganičová K, Fleischer P, Forrester DI, Uhl E, Avdagić A, Bellan M, Bielak K, Bravo F, Coll L, Cseke K, Del Rio M, Dinca L, Dobor L, Drozdowski S, Giammarchi F, Gömöryová E, Ibrahimspahić A, Kašanin-Grubin M, Klopčič M, Kurylyak V, Montes F, Pach M, Ruiz-Peinado R, Skrzyszewski J, Stajic B, Stojanovic D, Svoboda M, Tonon G, Versace S, Mitrovic S, Zlatanov T, Pretzsch H, Tognetti R. Empirical and process-based models predict enhanced beech growth in European mountains under climate change scenarios: A multimodel approach. Sci Total Environ 2023; 888:164123. [PMID: 37182772 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2023] [Revised: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
Abstract
Process-based models and empirical modelling techniques are frequently used to (i) explore the sensitivity of tree growth to environmental variables, and (ii) predict the future growth of trees and forest stands under climate change scenarios. However, modelling approaches substantially influence predictions of the sensitivity of trees to environmental factors. Here, we used tree-ring width (TRW) data from 1630 beech trees from a network of 70 plots established across European mountains to build empirical predictive growth models using various modelling approaches. In addition, we used 3-PG and Biome-BGCMuSo process-based models to compare growth predictions with derived empirical models. Results revealed similar prediction errors (RMSE) across models ranging between 3.71 and 7.54 cm2 of basal area increment (BAI). The models explained most of the variability in BAI ranging from 54 % to 87 %. Selected explanatory variables (despite being statistically highly significant) and the pattern of the growth sensitivity differed between models substantially. We identified only five factors with the same effect and the same sensitivity pattern in all empirical models: tree DBH, competition index, elevation, Gini index of DBH, and soil silt content. However, the sensitivity to most of the climate variables was low and inconsistent among the empirical models. Both empirical and process-based models suggest that beech in European mountains will, on average, likely experience better growth conditions under both 4.5 and 8.5 RCP scenarios. The process-based models indicated that beech may grow better across European mountains by 1.05 to 1.4 times in warmer conditions. The empirical models identified several drivers of tree growth that are not included in the current process-based models (e.g., different nutrients) but may have a substantial effect on final results, particularly if they are limiting factors. Hence, future development of process-based models may build upon our findings to increase their ability to correctly capture ecosystem dynamics.
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- Michal Bosela
- Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia; National Forest Centre, T.G. Masaryka 22, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia.
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- Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia; Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia; National Forest Centre, T.G. Masaryka 22, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 3, P.O.BOX 254, Slovakia; Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia; Administration of Tatra National Park, Tatranska Lomnica, 05960 Vysoke Tatry, Slovakia
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences, Chair of Forest Growth and Yield Science, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Department of Forest Management and Urban greenery, University Sarajevo Faculty of Forestry, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, Brno 6130, Czech Republic
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- Department of Silviculture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
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- iuFOR, Instituto universitario de investigación en gestión forestal sostenible, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
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- Department of Agriculture and Forest Engineering - JRU CTFC-AGROTECNIO, University of Lleida, Spain
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- Forest Research Institute, University of Sopron, Sárvár, Hungary
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- Instituto de Ciencias Forestales (ICIFOR-INIA), CSIC, Spain
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea", Romania
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano, Piazza Università 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
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- Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Department of Forest Management and Urban greenery, University Sarajevo Faculty of Forestry, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- University of Belgrade, Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, Njegoseva 12, Belgrade, Serbia
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- University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Ukrainian National Forestry University, Gen. Chuprynka str. 103, Lviv 79057, Ukraine
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- Department of Ecology and Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Poland
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- University of Belgrade-Faculty of Forestry, Department for Forestry and Nature Protection, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bolzano, Piazza Università 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Italy
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- Institute of Forestry, Kneza Viseslava 3, 11030 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Life Sciences, Chair of Forest Growth and Yield Science, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Italy
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del Río M, Pretzsch H, Ruiz‐Peinado R, Jactel H, Coll L, Löf M, Aldea J, Ammer C, Avdagić A, Barbeito I, Bielak K, Bravo F, Brazaitis G, Cerný J, Collet C, Condés S, Drössler L, Fabrika M, Heym M, Holm S, Hylen G, Jansons A, Kurylyak V, Lombardi F, Matović B, Metslaid M, Motta R, Nord‐Larsen T, Nothdurft A, den Ouden J, Pach M, Pardos M, Poeydebat C, Ponette Q, Pérot T, Reventlow DOJ, Sitko R, Sramek V, Steckel M, Svoboda M, Verheyen K, Vospernik S, Wolff B, Zlatanov T, Bravo‐Oviedo A. Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect. J Appl Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.14267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Miren del Río
- Instituto de Ciencias Forestales (ICIFOR), INIA, CSIC, Ctra Madrid Spain
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- School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan Technical University of Munich Freising Germany
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- NRAE University of Bordeaux, Biogeco Cestas France
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- EAGROF University of Lleida Lleida Spain
- Joint Research Unit CTFC‐AGROTECNIO‐CERCA Solsona Spain
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Southern Swedish Forest Research Lomma Sweden
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Southern Swedish Forest Research Lomma Sweden
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- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the temperate zones University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany
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- Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the temperate zones University of Göttingen Göttingen Germany
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- Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada
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- Institute of Forest Sciences Warsaw University of Life Sciences Warsaw Poland
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- Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute (iuFOR) University of Valladolid Palencia Spain
- Unidad Asociada I+D+i al CSIC Gestión Forestal Sostenible
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- Forestry and Game Management Research Institute Jílovište Czech Republic
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- Université de Lorraine AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR Silva Nancy France
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- School of Natural Science and Engineering, Ilia State University Tbilisi Georgia
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- Technical University in Zvolen Faculty of Forestry Zvolen Slovakia
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- School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan Technical University of Munich Freising Germany
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- NIBIO Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research Ås Norway
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- Latvian State Forest Research Institute Silava Salaspils Latvia
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- AGRARIA Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria Reggio Calabria Italy
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- University of Novi Sad Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment Novi Sad Serbia
- University of East Sarajevo Faculty of Agriculture, East Sarajevo Republika Srpska Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering Estonian University of Life Sciences Tartu Estonia
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- Department of Forest‐ and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Growth University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Wageningen University of Environmental Sciences Wageningen The Netherlands
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- Faculty of Forestry University of Agriculture in Krakow Kraków Poland
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- Instituto de Ciencias Forestales (ICIFOR), INIA, CSIC, Ctra Madrid Spain
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- INRAE – UR EFNO ‐ Centre de recherche Val de Loire Nogent‐Sur‐Vernisson France
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- Technical University in Zvolen Faculty of Forestry Zvolen Slovakia
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- Forestry and Game Management Research Institute Jílovište Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Czech Republic
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- Forest & Nature Lab Ghent University Melle‐Gontrode Belgium
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- Department of Forest‐ and Soil Sciences, Institute of Forest Growth University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (HNEE), FG Waldinventur und Planung Eberswalde Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia Bulgaria
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Kostić S, Wagner W, Orlović S, Levanič T, Zlatanov T, Goršić E, Kesić L, Matović B, Tsvetanov N, Stojanović DB. Different tree-ring width sensitivities to satellite-based soil moisture from dry, moderate and wet pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) stands across a southeastern distribution margin. Sci Total Environ 2021; 800:149536. [PMID: 34392225 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2021] [Revised: 08/04/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Associations of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.) radial growth with satellite-based soil moisture (SM) during the intensive tree growth period over a 30-year time span (1980-2010) were analyzed. This study included tree-ring width (TRW) chronologies from 22 stands located in four southeastern (SE) European countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria), which were grouped into three wetness groups (WGs): dry (<650 mm), moderate (650-750 mm), and wet (>750 mm), following the annual sum of precipitation. High correlation strengths during the intensive growth period-late spring and early summer months (April to June) was noted, which was opposite to the trend in late summer months. Variations in detrended TRW (TRWi) sensitivity to SM were also observed among the WGs. Specifically, the TRWi chronologies from the dry and wet WGs provided a greater number of significant correlations (p < 0.01) than trees from the moderate WG did. In wetter stands, TRWi correlated more negatively in the wettest (spring) months, while the correlation was weaker in summer months; these trends were opposite to those of trees growing in drier conditions that had the strongest responses to SM. A generalized additive mixed model (GAMM) based on 38 variables indicated that the fit for SM and radial growth was as strong as the fits for other traditionally measured parameters (temperature, precipitation, and river water level) and calculated drought indices (standardized precipitation index and the Ellenberg index) and TRW. Additionally, radial growth chronologies from drier sites had stronger fits with surrounding environmental factors. In conclusion, our findings suggest that SM can potentially be used as a reliable remote sensing indicator of the soil wetness in oak forests, which affects tree productivity and radial growth patterns and provides a new opportunity in dendrochronology research on larger scales.
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- Saša Kostić
- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Antona Čehova 13d, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
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- TU Wien, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria.
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Antona Čehova 13d, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
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- Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Gagarin Street, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Management Planning and Inventory, University of Zagreb, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia.
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Antona Čehova 13d, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Antona Čehova 13d, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
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- University of Forestry - Sofia, 10 Kliment Ohridski Blvd., 1797 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Antona Čehova 13d, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
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Angelstam P, Albulescu AC, Andrianambinina ODF, Aszalós R, Borovichev E, Cardona WC, Dobrynin D, Fedoriak M, Firm D, Hunter ML, de Jong W, Lindenmayer D, Manton M, Monge JJ, Mezei P, Michailova G, Brenes CLM, Pastur GM, Petrova OV, Petrov V, Pokorny B, Rafanoharana SC, Rosas YM, Seymour BR, Waeber PO, Wilmé L, Yamelynets T, Zlatanov T. Frontiers of protected areas versus forest exploitation: Assessing habitat network functionality in 16 case study regions globally. Ambio 2021; 50:2286-2310. [PMID: 34657275 PMCID: PMC8563882 DOI: 10.1007/s13280-021-01628-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
Exploitation of natural forests forms expanding frontiers. Simultaneously, protected area frontiers aim at maintaining functional habitat networks. To assess net effects of these frontiers, we examined 16 case study areas on five continents. We (1) mapped protected area instruments, (2) assessed their effectiveness, (3) mapped policy implementation tools, and (4) effects on protected areas originating from their surroundings. Results are given as follows: (1) conservation instruments covered 3-77%, (2) effectiveness of habitat networks depended on representativeness, habitat quality, functional connectivity, resource extraction in protected areas, time for landscape restoration, "paper parks", "fortress conservation", and data access, (3) regulatory policy instruments dominated over economic and informational, (4) negative matrix effects dominated over positive ones (protective forests, buffer zones, inaccessibility), which were restricted to former USSR and Costa Rica. Despite evidence-based knowledge about conservation targets, the importance of spatial segregation of conservation and use, and traditional knowledge, the trajectories for biodiversity conservation were generally negative.
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- Per Angelstam
- School for Forest Management, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 43, 73921 Skinnskatteberg, Sweden
- Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Campus Evenstad, 2480 Koppang, Norway
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- Department of Geography, Faculty of Geography and Geology, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Carol I Boulevard No. 11, 700506 Iasi, Romania
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- Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Alkotmány u. 2-4, Vácrátót, 2163 Hungary
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- Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of the Kola Science Center of RAS, Akademgorodok Street 14a, Apatity, Murmansk, Russia
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- International Union for Conservation of Nature-Project Integration of Protected Areas from Amazon Biome, República del Salvador Av. N 34-127 and Suiza, PO Box 170515, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
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- Department of Ecology and Biomonitoring, Institute of Biology, Chemistry and Bioresources, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, 2 Kotsyubynskyi Street, Chernivtsi, 58012 Ukraine
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- New Zealand Forest Research Institute-Scion, 49 Sala Street, Rotorua, 3010 New Zealand
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, 5755 Nutting Hall, Room 226, Orono, ME 04469-5775 USA
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- Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachichou, Sakyoku, Kyoto, 606‐8501 Japan
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia
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- Faculty of Forest Science and Ecology, Vytautas Magnus University, Studentu˛ g. 13, Akademija, Kauno r., 53362 Kaunas, Lithuania
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- Market Economics Ltd, Digital Basecamp, 1132 Hinemoa Street, Rotorua, 3010 New Zealand
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľ. Štúra 2, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia
- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research, Russian Academy of Science (FCIArctic RAS), 23 Northern Dvina Embankment, Arkhangel’sk, Russia 163000
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- Social Science, Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science, Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22202 USA
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Houssay, 200 (9410) Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Argentina
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- Institute of the Industrial Ecology Problems of the North of the Kola Science Center of RAS, Akademgorodok Street 14a, Apatity, Murmansk, Russia
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- Kola Biodiversity Conservation Center, Lenina st. 6-29, Apatity, Murmansk, Russia 184209
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- Waldbau-Institut, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- World Resources Institute Africa, Madagascar Program, Hôtel Colbert, Business Center Area, 29 Lalana Printsy Ratsimamanga, BP 3884, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Centro Austral de Investigaciones Científicas (CADIC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Houssay, 200 (9410) Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Argentina
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- Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, University of Maine, 5755 Nutting Hall, Room 226, Orono, ME 04469-5775 USA
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- Forest Management and Development, Department of Environmental Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Universitätsstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- World Resources Institute Africa, Madagascar Program, Hôtel Colbert, Business Center Area, 29 Lalana Printsy Ratsimamanga, BP 3884, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Madagascar Research & Conservation Program, BP 3391, 101 Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- Faculty of Geography, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Doroshenko Street 41, L’viv, 79000 Ukraine
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Gagarin Street, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
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Sabatini FM, Keeton WS, Lindner M, Svoboda M, Verkerk PJ, Bauhus J, Bruelheide H, Burrascano S, Debaive N, Duarte I, Garbarino M, Grigoriadis N, Lombardi F, Mikoláš M, Meyer P, Motta R, Mozgeris G, Nunes L, Ódor P, Panayotov M, Ruete A, Simovski B, Stillhard J, Svensson J, Szwagrzyk J, Tikkanen O, Vandekerkhove K, Volosyanchuk R, Vrska T, Zlatanov T, Kuemmerle T. Protection gaps and restoration opportunities for primary forests in Europe. DIVERS DISTRIB 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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- Francesco M. Sabatini
- Institut für Biologie Martin‐Luther‐Universität Halle‐Wittenberg Halle Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Germany
- Geography Department Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources University of Vermont Burlington VT USA
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- Resilience Programme European Forest Institute Bonn Germany
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha 6 – Suchdol Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources University of Freiburg Freiburg Germany
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- Institut für Biologie Martin‐Luther‐Universität Halle‐Wittenberg Halle Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Germany
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- Department of Environmental Biology Sapienza University of Rome Rome Italy
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- Centre for Applied Ecology “Professor Baeta Neves” (CEABN) InBIO School of Agriculture University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA) University of Torino Grugliasco Italy
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- Department of Agraria Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria – Feo Di Vito Reggio Calabria Italy
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Praha 6 – Suchdol Czech Republic
- PRALES Rosina Slovakia
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- Northwest German Forest Research Institute Göttingen Germany
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA) University of Torino Grugliasco Italy
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- Agriculture Academy Institute of Forest Management and Wood Science Vytautas Magnus University Akademija Lithuania
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- Centre for Applied Ecology “Professor Baeta Neves” (CEABN) InBIO School of Agriculture University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal
- CITAB Centre of the Research and Technology of Agro‐Environmental and Biological Science University of Trás‐os‐Montes and Alto Douro Vila Real Portugal
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- Centre for Ecological Research Institute of Ecology and Botany Vácrátót Hungary
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- Hans Em Faculty of Forest Sciences Landscape Architecture and Environmental Engineering Department of Botany and Dendrology Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje Skopje North Macedonia
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- Forest Resources and Management Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå Sweden
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- Department of Forest Biodiversity University of Agriculture in Krakow Krakow Poland
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- Silva Tarouca Research Institute Brno Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia Bulgaria
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- Geography Department Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
- Integrative Research Institute on Transformation in Human‐Environment Systems Humboldt‐Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany
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Dorado-Liñán I, Piovesan G, Martínez-Sancho E, Gea-Izquierdo G, Zang C, Cañellas I, Castagneri D, Di Filippo A, Gutiérrez E, Ewald J, Fernández-de-Uña L, Hornstein D, Jantsch MC, Levanič T, Mellert KH, Vacchiano G, Zlatanov T, Menzel A. Geographical adaptation prevails over species-specific determinism in trees' vulnerability to climate change at Mediterranean rear-edge forests. Glob Chang Biol 2019; 25:1296-1314. [PMID: 30548989 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Climate change may reduce forest growth and increase forest mortality, which is connected to high carbon costs through reductions in gross primary production and net ecosystem exchange. Yet, the spatiotemporal patterns of vulnerability to both short-term extreme events and gradual environmental changes are quite uncertain across the species' limits of tolerance to dryness. Such information is fundamental for defining ecologically relevant upper limits of species tolerance to drought and, hence, to predict the risk of increased forest mortality and shifts in species composition. We investigate here to what extent the impact of short- and long-term environmental changes determines vulnerability to climate change of three evergreen conifers (Scots pine, silver fir, Norway spruce) and two deciduous hardwoods (European beech, sessile oak) tree species at their southernmost limits of distribution in the Mediterranean Basin. Finally, we simulated future forest growth under RCP 2.6 and 8.5 emission scenarios using a multispecies generalized linear mixed model. Our analysis provides four key insights into the patterns of species' vulnerability to climate change. First, site climatic marginality was significantly linked to the growth trends: increasing growth was related to less climatically limited sites. Second, estimated species-specific vulnerability did not match their a priori rank in drought tolerance: Scots pine and beech seem to be the most vulnerable species among those studied despite their contrasting physiologies. Third, adaptation to site conditions prevails over species-specific determinism in forest response to climate change. And fourth, regional differences in forests vulnerability to climate change across the Mediterranean Basin are linked to the influence of summer atmospheric circulation patterns, which are not correctly represented in global climate models. Thus, projections of forest performance should reconsider the traditional classification of tree species in functional types and critically evaluate the fine-scale limitations of the climate data generated by global climate models.
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- Isabel Dorado-Liñán
- Forest Research Centre (INIA-CIFOR), Madrid, Spain
- Forest Genetics and Ecophysiology Research Group, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Ecoclimatology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
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- DendrologyLab, DAFNE, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
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- Ecoclimatology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
- Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Ecoclimatology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
- Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
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- DendrologyLab, DAFNE, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
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- Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Faculty of Forestry, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan Triesdorf, Freising, Germany
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- Faculty of Forestry, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan Triesdorf, Freising, Germany
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- Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Forest Nutrition and Water Resources, University of Technology, Munich, Freising, Germany
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Ecoclimatology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
- Institute for Advanced Study, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany
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Sabatini FM, Burrascano S, Keeton WS, Levers C, Lindner M, Pötzschner F, Verkerk PJ, Bauhus J, Buchwald E, Chaskovsky O, Debaive N, Horváth F, Garbarino M, Grigoriadis N, Lombardi F, Marques Duarte I, Meyer P, Midteng R, Mikac S, Mikoláš M, Motta R, Mozgeris G, Nunes L, Panayotov M, Ódor P, Ruete A, Simovski B, Stillhard J, Svoboda M, Szwagrzyk J, Tikkanen OP, Volosyanchuk R, Vrska T, Zlatanov T, Kuemmerle T. Where are Europe’s last primary forests? DIVERS DISTRIB 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 183] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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- Department of Environmental Biology; Sapienza, Università di Roma; Rome Italy
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources; University of Vermont; Burlington Vermont USA
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- Geography Department; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Berlin Germany
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- Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources; University of Freiburg; Freiburg Germany
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- Institute of Forest Management; National University of Forestry and Wood Technology; Lviv Ukraine
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- Institute of Ecology and Botany; MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót Hungary
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA); University of Torino; Grugliasco Italy
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- Department of Agraria; Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria; Reggio Calabria Italy
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- Centre for Applied Ecology “Professor Baeta Neves” (CEABN); InBio; School of Agriculture; University of Lisbon; Lisbon Portugal
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- Northwest German Forest Research Institute; Göttingen Germany
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- Faculty of Forestry; Department of Forest Ecology and Silviculture; University of Zagreb; Zagreb Croatia
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; Praha-Suchdol Czech Republic
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- Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA); University of Torino; Grugliasco Italy
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- Institute of Forest Management and Wood Science; Aleksandras Stulginskis University; Akademija Lithuania
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- Centre for Applied Ecology “Professor Baeta Neves” (CEABN); InBio; School of Agriculture; University of Lisbon; Lisbon Portugal
- CITAB Centre of the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Science; University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro; Vila Real Portugal
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- Institute of Ecology and Botany; MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót Hungary
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- Faculty of Forestry in Skopje; Department of Botany and Dendrology; Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje; Skopje Republic of Macedonia
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- WSL Swiss Federal Institute of Forest; Snow and Landscape Research; Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences; Czech University of Life Sciences Prague; Praha-Suchdol Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry; Institute of Forest Ecology and Silviculture; University of Agriculture; Kraków Poland
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- Forest Ecology Department; Silva Tarouca Research Institute; Brno Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Sofia Bulgaria
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- Geography Department; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Berlin Germany
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Dimitrakov J, Tchitalov J, Zlatanov T, Dikov D, Rawadi G. Corticotropin-releasing hormone perturbations in interstitial cystitis patients: evidence for abnormal sympathetic activity. Urology 2002; 57:128. [PMID: 11378124 DOI: 10.1016/s0090-4295(01)01098-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- J Dimitrakov
- Justus-Liebig University, Urology Clinic, Giessen, Germany
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Dimitrakov J, Tchitalov J, Zlatanov T, Dikov D, Rawadi G. Recombinant human nerve growth factor in the treatment of interstitial cystitis: preliminary results. Urology 2001; 57:118-9. [PMID: 11378099 DOI: 10.1016/s0090-4295(01)01067-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- J Dimitrakov
- Justus-Liebig University, Urology Clinic, Giessen, Germany
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Dimitrakov J, Ganev V, Zlatanov T, Detchev I, Horvat A, Kirov S, Vatchkova I, Dimitrakov D. PCR studies on the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis in the upper urinary tract of patients with obstructive pyelonephritis. Folia Med (Plovdiv) 2000; 40:24-8. [PMID: 10658351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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Chlamydia trachomatis infections are among the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the world and it is only logical to hypothesize that it alone or in association with mycoplasmas can participate in the initiation and persistence of upper urinary tract infections. Having in mind the inconclusive evidence regarding the role of C. trachomatis in upper urinary tract infections we decided to study the presence of C. trachomatis in the upper urinary tract of patients with obstructive pyelonephritis using the polymerase chain reaction. We studied 20 patients (12 female and 8 male, aged 20-60 years) with symptoms and signs of acute pyelonephritis in accordance with Kunin's criteria (1997). Samples were taken during surgery of the upper urinary tract by aspirating urine from the renal pelvis or the ureter above the level of the obstruction and analyzed for the presence of bacterial pathogens using routine microbiological techniques and employing the "AMPLICOR CT/NG" test (Roche Diagnostic Systems, Branchburg, NJ, USA) for the presence of C. trachomatis. Chlamydia trachomatis was found in the aspirated urine of 5 patients (25%). In 3 of the patients the microbiological tests of the aspirated urine did not establish any other microbial agent. In the other two Escherichia coli and Proteus mirabilis were cultured. The analysis of the clinical and laboratory findings in the patients with Chlamydia trachomatis infection alone and those with an associated bacterial pathogen failed to reach statistical significance. Following the operation all of the patients received treatment with Ofloxacin 200 mg bid for 7 days with a favorable clinical and laboratory outcome. In our opinion, the AMPLICOR CT/NG test is a sensitive and specific method for diagnosing low-number Chlamydia trachomatis infections of the upper urinary tract in patients with obstructive pyelonephritis. Chlamydia trachomatis should be considered as a possible etiologic agent in acute pyelonephritis and the therapeutic regimen in such patients should be targeted at its possible underlying presence.
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- J Dimitrakov
- Clinic of Nephrology, Higher Medical Institute, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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