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Radial-Growth and Wood Anatomical Responses to Climate Change
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Radial-Growth and Wood Anatomical Responses to Climate Change

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Wood Science and Forest Products".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 December 2021) | Viewed by 14819

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jesús Julio Camarero

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Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: treeline ecotone; dendrochronology; wood anatomy; biodiversity & conservation; climate change
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Dr. Raúl Sánchez-Salguero

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Dpt. Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. Utrera Km 1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: forest management; dendroecology; biogeography, forest dynamics; tree decline; ecological models; global change
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Dr. Angela Luisa Prendin

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Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture, and Forestry, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Interests: ecophysiology; wood anatomy; plant ecology; tree physiology; dendroecology; dendroclimatology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Forests play a significant role as terrestrial carbon sinks and they could mitigate climate warming by absorbing anthropogenic emissions. Wood is a major biotic reservoir for long-term carbon sequestration. Therefore, we need a better understanding on how trees and other woody plants (shrubs) respond to climate change. Studies on radial growth and quantitative wood anatomy are two relevant sources of information on the responses of woody plants to climate.

This issue of Forests calls for studies on the responses of radial growth and the wood anatomy of forests and scrublands to climate change. We expect contributions focused on dendroecology, dendroclimatology and wood anatomy investigating the responses of trees and shrubs to climate trends and to extreme climate events as droughts or frosts. We encourage studies on the broad field of tree-ring and wood anatomy sciences, providing research on observed and projected tree performances under climate change. Studies addressing ecological aspects based on these disciplines and contributing mitigation, resilience and adaptation strategies for woody communities and tree and shrub populations as related to climate change will be considered. Contributions including experimental, observational, modeling and theoretical studies focusing on woody plants are welcome. 

Dr. Jesús Julio Camarero
Dr. Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Dr. Angela Luisa Prendin
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • dendroecology
  • tree rings
  • wood anatomy
  • xylem
  • xylogenesis
  • secondary growth

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Wood Anatomical Traits Respond to Climate but More Individualistically as Compared to Radial Growth: Analyze Trees, Not Means
by Angelo Rita, Jesús Julio Camarero, Michele Colangelo, Ester González de Andrés and Marín Pompa-García
Forests 2022, 13(6), 956; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13060956 - 18 Jun 2022
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Wood encodes environmental information that can be recovered through the study of tree-ring width and wood anatomical variables such as lumen area or cell-wall thickness. Anatomical variables often provide a stronger hydroclimate signal than tree-ring width, but they show a low tree-to-tree coherence. [...] Read more.
Wood encodes environmental information that can be recovered through the study of tree-ring width and wood anatomical variables such as lumen area or cell-wall thickness. Anatomical variables often provide a stronger hydroclimate signal than tree-ring width, but they show a low tree-to-tree coherence. We investigate the sources of variation in tree-ring width, lumen area, and cell-wall thickness in three pine species inhabiting sites with contrasting climate conditions: Pinus lumholtzii in wet-summer northern Mexico, and Pinus halepensis and Pinus sylvestris in dry-summer north-eastern Spain. We quantified the amount of variance of these three variables explained by spring and summer water balance and how it varied among trees. Wood anatomical variables accounted for a larger inter-individual variability than tree-ring width data. Anatomical traits responded to hydroclimate more individualistically than tree-ring width. This individualistic response represents an important issue in long-term studies on wood anatomical characteristics. We emphasized the degree of variation among individuals of the same population, which has far-reaching implications for understanding tree species’ responses to climate change. Dendroclimatic and wood anatomical studies should focus on trees rather than on the mean population series. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radial-Growth and Wood Anatomical Responses to Climate Change)
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Shifting Precipitation Patterns Drive Growth Variability and Drought Resilience of European Atlas Cedar Plantations
by Jesús Julio Camarero, Antonio Gazol, Michele Colangelo, Juan Carlos Linares, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Álvaro Rubio-Cuadrado, Fernando Silla, Pierre-Jean Dumas and François Courbet
Forests 2021, 12(12), 1751; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12121751 - 11 Dec 2021
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Tree plantations have been proposed as suitable carbon sinks to mitigate climate change. Drought may reduce their carbon uptake, increasing their vulnerability to stress and affecting their growth recovery and resilience. We investigated the recent growth rates and responses to the climate and [...] Read more.
Tree plantations have been proposed as suitable carbon sinks to mitigate climate change. Drought may reduce their carbon uptake, increasing their vulnerability to stress and affecting their growth recovery and resilience. We investigated the recent growth rates and responses to the climate and drought in eight Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) plantations located along a wide climate gradient from wetter sites in south-eastern France and north Spain to dry sites in south-eastern Spain. The cedar growth increased in response to the elevated precipitation from the prior winter to the current summer, but the influence of winter precipitation on growth gained importance in the driest sites. The growth responsiveness to climate and drought peaked in those dry sites, but the growth resilience did not show a similar gradient. The Atlas cedar growth was driven by the total precipitation during the hydrological year and this association strengthened from the 1980s onwards, a pattern related to the winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). High winter NAO indices and drier conditions were associated with lower growth. At the individual level, growth resilience was related to tree age, while growth recovery and year-to-year growth variability covaried. Plantations’ resilience to drought depends on both climate and tree-level features. Full article
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Intra- and Inter-Annual Growth Patterns of a Mixed Pine-Oak Forest under Mediterranean Climate
by Elisabet Martínez-Sancho, Emilia Gutiérrez, Cristina Valeriano, Montse Ribas, Margarita I. Popkova, Vladimir V. Shishov and Isabel Dorado-Liñán
Forests 2021, 12(12), 1746; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12121746 - 10 Dec 2021
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Temperature and precipitation variability throughout the year control the intra-annual dynamics of tree-ring formation. Physiological adaptation of trees to climate change is among the key issues to better understand and predict future forest performance and composition. In this study, we investigated the species’ [...] Read more.
Temperature and precipitation variability throughout the year control the intra-annual dynamics of tree-ring formation. Physiological adaptation of trees to climate change is among the key issues to better understand and predict future forest performance and composition. In this study, we investigated the species’ coexistence and performance of Scots pine and pubescent oak growing in a mixed sub-Mediterranean forest in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula. We assessed intra-annual cumulative growth patterns derived from band dendrometers during four consecutive growing seasons and long-term changes in basal area increment for the period 1950–2014. Our results revealed that Scots pine followed an intra-annual bimodal growth pattern. Scots pine growth was mainly limited by water availability at intra-annual, interannual and decadal time scales, which resulted in a negative long-term growth trend. Conversely, oak displayed a unimodal growth pattern, which was less climatically constrained. A significant increase in basal area of oak denotes an overall better potential acclimation to prevailing climatic conditions at the expenses of a higher risk of physiological failure during extreme climate events. Full article
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Allometry and Post-Drought Growth Resilience of Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur L.) Varieties
by Saša Kostić, Saša Orlović, Velisav Karaklić, Lazar Kesić, Martina Zorić and Dejan B. Stojanović
Forests 2021, 12(7), 930; https://doi.org/10.3390/f12070930 - 16 Jul 2021
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This paper presents an analysis of the radial growth, tree dimensions, and allometry of three phenological pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.; QURO) varieties (early (E-QURO), typical (T-QURO), and late (L-QURO)), from a common garden experiment. We focused on the resistance and resilience [...] Read more.
This paper presents an analysis of the radial growth, tree dimensions, and allometry of three phenological pedunculate oak (Quercus robur L.; QURO) varieties (early (E-QURO), typical (T-QURO), and late (L-QURO)), from a common garden experiment. We focused on the resistance and resilience of each variety to drought events, which occurred in 2012 and 2017, as well as their recovery potential during juvenile and mature growth phases, with the goal of clarifying how QURO drought sensitivity is influenced by tree phenology and growth stage. Our results indicate that E-QURO is more drought resistant, while T-QURO and L-QURO exhibit greater recovery potential after a drought event. Hence, typical and late QURO varieties are better prepared to withstand climate change. We also noted differences in the physical dimensions and the allometry of the studied QURO varieties. On average, 21-year-old QURO specimens from the analyzed stand are 9.35 m tall, have a crown width (CW) of 8.05 m, and a diameter at breast height (DBH) of 23.71 cm. Although T-QURO varieties had the greatest DBH and CW, they were shorter than E- and L-QURO, which are similar in height. T-QURO is also shorter relative to DBH, while L-QURO has a wider crown relative to tree height (TH). Intra-variety variations are higher than variations among half-sib (open-pollinated) families of each variety. Moreover, the adopted regression model provided a better fit to the CW/DBH ratio than to TH/DBH and CW/TH. Full article
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Disentangling Mechanisms of Drought-Induced Dieback in Pinus nigra Arn. from Growth and Wood Isotope Patterns
by Ester González de Andrés and Jesús Julio Camarero
Forests 2020, 11(12), 1339; https://doi.org/10.3390/f11121339 - 16 Dec 2020
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The increased frequency and intensity of warming-induced droughts have triggered dieback episodes affecting many forest types and tree species worldwide. Tree plantations are not exempt as they can be more vulnerable to drought than natural forests because of their lower structural and genetic [...] Read more.
The increased frequency and intensity of warming-induced droughts have triggered dieback episodes affecting many forest types and tree species worldwide. Tree plantations are not exempt as they can be more vulnerable to drought than natural forests because of their lower structural and genetic diversity. Therefore, disentangling the physiological mechanisms leading to growth decline and tree mortality can provide tools to adapt forest management to climate change. In this study, we investigated a Pinus nigra Arn. plantation situated in northern Spain, in which some trees showed canopy dieback and radial-growth decline. We analyzed how radial growth and its responses to drought events differed between non-declining (ND) and declining (D) trees showing low and high canopy defoliation, respectively, in combination with carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotope ratios in tree rings. The radial growth of P. nigra was constrained by water availability during the growing season and the previous autumn. The radial growth of D trees showed higher sensitivity to drought than ND trees. This fact is in accordance with the lower drought resilience and negative growth trends observed in D trees. Both tree classes differed in their growth from 2012 onwards, with D trees showing a reduced growth compared to ND trees. The positive δ13C-δ18O relationship together with the uncoupling between growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency suggest that D trees have less tight stomatal regulation than ND trees, which could involve a high risk of xylem embolism in the former class. Our results suggest that different water use strategies between coexisting ND and D trees were behind the differences in growth patterns and point to hydraulic failure as a possible mechanism triggering dieback and growth decline. Full article
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