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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/27941| Appears in Collections: | Biological and Environmental Sciences Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species |
| Author(s): | Hacket-Pain, Andrew J Ascoli, Davide Vacchiano, Giorgio Biondi, Franco Cavin, Liam Conedera, Marco Drobyshev, Igor Liñán, Isabel Dorado Friend, Andrew D Grabner, Michael Hartl, Claudia Kreyling, Juergen Lebourgeois, François Levanič, Tom Menzel, Annette |
| Keywords: | Dendrochronology drought European beech Fagus sylvatica forest growth masting path analysis SEM structural equation modelling trade‐off |
| Issue Date: | 31-Dec-2018 |
| Date Deposited: | 10-Oct-2018 |
| Citation: | Hacket-Pain AJ, Ascoli D, Vacchiano G, Biondi F, Cavin L, Conedera M, Drobyshev I, Liñán ID, Friend AD, Grabner M, Hartl C, Kreyling J, Lebourgeois F, Levanič T & Menzel A (2018) Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species. Ecology Letters, 21 (12), pp. 1833-1844. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13158 |
| Abstract: | Climatically controlled allocation to reproduction is a key mechanism by which climate influences tree growth and may explain lagged correlations between climate and growth. We used continent‐wide datasets of tree‐ring chronologies and annual reproductive effort in Fagus sylvatica from 1901 to 2015 to characterise relationships between climate, reproduction and growth. Results highlight that variable allocation to reproduction is a key factor for growth in this species, and that high reproductive effort (‘mast years’) is associated with stem growth reduction. Additionally, high reproductive effort is associated with previous summer temperature, creating lagged climate effects on growth. Consequently, understanding growth variability in forest ecosystems requires the incorporation of reproduction, which can be highly variable. Our results suggest that future response of growth dynamics to climate change in this species will be strongly influenced by the response of reproduction. |
| DOI Link: | 10.1111/ele.13158 |
| Rights: | © 2018 The Authors Ecology Letters published by CNRS and John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Notes: | Additional co-authors: Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten‐Theunissen, Lena Muffler, Renzo Motta, Catalin‐Constantin Roibu, Ionel Popa, Tobias Scharnweber, Robert Weigel, Martin Wilmking, Christian S Zang |
| Licence URL(s): | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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