Climate-growth relationships in forest trees are increasingly the focus of research aimed at understanding and assessing responses to climate change. Many studies have been confined to annual radial growth at breast height as an easy-to-measure dendrological standard variable, although its validity ...
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Rubio-Cuadrado, Á.; Bravo-Oviedo, A.; Mutke, S.; Río, M. del
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Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, Parma, Italy
Citation
iForest, 2018, 11, pp 237-242
Climate warming and increasing aridity may negatively impact forest productivity across southern Europe. A better understanding of growth responses to climate and drought in southernmost populations could provide insight on the vulnerability of those forests to aridification. Here we investigate...
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Caminero, L.; Génova, M.; Camarero, J. J.; Sánchez-Salguero, R.
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Elsevier GmbH, München, Germany
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Dendrochronologia, 2018, 48, pp 20-29
The Azores Archipelago, located in the North Atlantic Ridge, experiences heavy rainfall and mild temperatures with weak seasonal differences due to oceanic influence. To our knowledge, there have been no dendrochronological studies in the Azores. The aim of this study is to explore the...
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Vieira, J.; Campelo, F.; Nabais, C.
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Elsevier GmbH, München, Germany
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Dendrochronologia, 2017, 45, pp 73-80
It is predicted that changes in climate will lead to episodes of large forest decline and mortality. Therefore, the distributions of forest plantations and natural stands might already be facing such impacts. We selected the most arid zone of south-eastern Europe (eastern Andalusia) to assess how...
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Silvério, E.; Duque-Lazo, J.; Navarro-Cerrillo, R. M.; Pereña, F.; Palacios-Rodríguez, G.
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Oxford University Press, New York, USA
Citation
Forest Science, 2020, 66, 2, pp 178-190
The effect of fire severity on Pinus pinaster growth and ecophysiological responses was evaluated in four burned sites of Vesuvio National Park, Southern Italy. After the wildfire of 2017, when over 1300 hectares of vegetation, mainly P. pinaster woods, were destroyed, four sites were selected...
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Niccoli, F.; Esposito, A.; Altieri, S.; Battipaglia, G.
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Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019, 10, April, pp 539
Forests are widely affected by disturbances, both abiotic, climate related, and biotic, like insect outbreaks. However, the impact of the interaction of these disturbances on tree growth is still not well understood. On the present work the impact of climatic and long-term defoliation by ...
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Campôa, J.; Calvão, T.; Firmino, P. N.; Pimentel, C. S.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
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Forest Ecology and Management, 2021, 498,
Forests are key elements in mitigating the effects of climate change due to the fact of their carbon sequestration capacity. Forest management can be oriented to optimise the carbon sequestration capacity of forest stands, in line with other productive objectives and the generation of ecosystem...
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Cachinero-Vivar, A. M.; Palacios-Rodríguez, G.; Lara-Gómez, M. A.; Navarro-Cerrillo, R. M.
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MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
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Forests, 2021, 12, 11,
Drought stress causes a reduction in tree growth and forest productivity, which could be aggravated by climate warming and defoliation due to moth outbreaks. We investigate how European gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar L., Lepidoptera: Erebidae) outbreak and related climate conditions affected...
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Camarero, J. J.; Álvarez-Taboada, F.; Hevia, A.; Castedo-Dorado, F.
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Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018, 9, October, pp 1582
Quantifying intraspecific genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity of traits involved in drought tolerance is essential to forecast forest tree vulnerability to climate change. Tree ring analysis was applied to retrospectively assess the resistance, recovery and resilience of a Mediterranean...
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Zas, R.; Sampedro, L.; Solla, A.; Vivas, M.; Lombardero, M. J.; Alía, R.; Rozas, V.
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Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2020, 291,
Droughts are a recurrent phenomenon in the Mediterranean basin with negative consequences for society, economic activities, and natural systems. Nevertheless, the study of drought recurrence and severity in Spain has been limited so far due to the relatively short instrumental period. In this work, ...
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Tejedor, E.; Luis, M. de; Cuadrat, J. M.; Esper, J.; Saz, M. Á.
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Springer-Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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International Journal of Biometeorology, 2016, 60, 3, pp 361-372