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Regional climate moderately influences species-mixing effect on tree growth-climate relationships and drought resistance for beech and pine across Europe

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dc.creator de Streel, G.
dc.creator Lebourgeois, François
dc.creator Ammer, Christian
dc.creator Barbeito, I.
dc.creator Bielak, Kamil
dc.creator Bravo-Oviedo, A.
dc.creator Brazaitis, G.
dc.creator Coll Mir, Lluís
dc.date 2022
dc.date.accessioned 2025-10-20T08:34:03Z
dc.date.available 2025-10-20T08:34:03Z
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120317
dc.identifier 0378-1127
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/463486
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/22944
dc.description Increasing species diversity is considered a promising strategy to mitigate the negative impacts of global change on forests. However, the interactions between regional climate conditions and species-mixing effects on climate-growth relationships and drought resistance remain poorly documented. In this study, we investigated the patterns of species-mixing effects over a large gradient of environmental conditions throughout Europe for European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), two species with contrasted ecological traits. We hypothesized that across large geographical scales, the difference of climate-growth relationships and drought resistance between pure and mixed stands would be dependent on regional climate. We used tree ring chronologies derived from 1143 beech and 1164 pine trees sampled in 30 study sites, each composed of one mixed stand of beech and pine and of the two corresponding pure stands located in similar site conditions. For each site and stand, we used Bootstrapped Correlation Coefficients (BCCs) on standardized chronologies and growth reduction during drought years on raw chronologies to analyze the difference in climate-tree growth relationships and resistance to drought between pure and mixed stands. We found consistent large-scale spatial patterns of climate-growth relationships. Those patterns were similar for both species. With the exception of the driest climates where pure and mixed beech stands tended to display differences in growth correlation with the main climatic drivers, the mixing effects on the BCCs were highly variable, resulting in the lack of a coherent response to mixing. No consistent species-mixing effect on drought resistance was found within and across climate zones. On average, mixing had no significant effect on drought resistance for neither species, yet it increased pine resistance in sites with higher climatic water balance in autumn. Also, beech and pine most often differed in the timing of their drought response within similar sites, irrespective of the regional climate, which might increase the temporal stability of growth in mixed compared to pure stands. Our results showed that the impact of species mixing on tree response to climate did not strongly differ between groups of sites with distinct climate characteristics and climate-growth relationships, indicating the interacting influences of species identity, stand characteristics, drought events characteristics as well as local site conditions.
dc.description The main author obtained a PhD grant from the ‘Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique’ (FNRS-FRIA) and additional funding support from the Walloon forest service (Service Public de Wallonie— Départment de la Nature et des Forêts) through the 5-year research programme “Accord-cadre de recherches et de vulgarisation forestières”. Bratislav Matovic was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Advancement of the Republic of Serbia (877 451-03-68/2020-14/ 200197). M.G. Pereira was supported by the National Funds from FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UIDB/04033/2020. All other contributors thank their national funding agencies.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120317
dc.relation Forest Ecology and Management, 2022, vol. 520, 120317
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) Elsevier, 2022
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Dendrochronology
dc.subject Ecological gradient
dc.subject Species mixture
dc.subject Fagus sylvatica
dc.subject Pinus sylvestris
dc.title Regional climate moderately influences species-mixing effect on tree growth-climate relationships and drought resistance for beech and pine across Europe
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion


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