Effect of the outbreak of horse-chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella Deschka & Dimić) on tree-ring width in common horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum L.)

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.21203/rs.3.rs-466202/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Anna Cedro ◽

Grzegorz Nowak

Keyword(s):

Growth Rate ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Insect Pest ◽

Ring Width ◽

Leaf Miner ◽

Horse Chestnut ◽

Climate Response ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

Temperature And Precipitation ◽

Chestnut Leaf

Abstract Common horse-chestnut is frequently infested by the insect pest horse-chestnut leaf miner [HCLM; Cameraria ohridella (Deschka & Dimić, 1986), Gracillariidae, Lepidoptera]. The larvae, feeding on leaf parenchyma, cause browning and dehydration of leaves, which may be shed as early as in summer. The major aims of this study were: (1) to assess the effect of infestation by HCLM on ring-width dynamics in common horse-chestnut; (2) to determine the date of invasion of the pest; and (3) to compare the growth-climate response in the period before and after the invasion of HCLM. In 2017 in north-western Poland, samples from 30 horse-chestnut trees for the dendrochronological analysis were taken with help of a Pressler increment borer. The ring-width chronology was developed using standard dendrochronological methods. Dendroclimatological analyses were made in 2 periods: before the determined date of HCLM invasion (till the year 1999) and after the invasion (in 20002016). In 2000, in spite of favourable weather conditions, a reduced growth rate was observed in 91% of the analysed trees. The period of strong reductions lasted till 2010. Before the invasion, radial growth rate was dependent on temperature and precipitation in May and June of the current year, whereas after the invasion, the growth-climate response was dependent on temperature and precipitation in the preceding year and the correlation was stronger. Surprisingly, in recent years (2011–2016), in spite of infestation by HCLM every year, the health condition of the analysed trees has improved and tree-ring width has increased.

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Different Wood Anatomical and Growth Responses in European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at Three Forest Sites in Slovenia

Frontiers in Plant Science ◽

10.3389/fpls.2021.669229 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Domen Arnič ◽

Jožica Gričar ◽

Jernej Jevšenak ◽

Gregor Božič ◽

Georg von Arx ◽

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Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Climatic Factors ◽

Ring Width ◽

European Beech ◽

Growing Season ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

Maximum Temperature ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

Vessel Area ◽

Temperature And Precipitation

European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) adapts to local growing conditions to enhance its performance. In response to variations in climatic conditions, beech trees adjust leaf phenology, cambial phenology, and wood formation patterns, which result in different tree-ring widths (TRWs) and wood anatomy. Chronologies of tree ring width and vessel features [i.e., mean vessel area (MVA), vessel density (VD), and relative conductive area (RCTA)] were produced for the 1960–2016 period for three sites that differ in climatic regimes and spring leaf phenology (two early- and one late-flushing populations). These data were used to investigate long-term relationships between climatic conditions and anatomical features of four quarters of tree-rings at annual and intra-annual scales. In addition, we investigated how TRW and vessel features adjust in response to extreme weather events (i.e., summer drought). We found significant differences in TRW, VD, and RCTA among the selected sites. Precipitation and maximum temperature before and during the growing season were the most important climatic factors affecting TRW and vessel characteristics. We confirmed differences in climate-growth relationships between the selected sites, late flushing beech population at Idrija showing the least pronounced response to climate. MVA was the only vessel trait that showed no relationship with TRW or other vessel features. The relationship between MVA and climatic factors evaluated at intra-annual scale indicated that vessel area in the first quarter of tree-ring were mainly influenced by climatic conditions in the previous growing season, while vessel area in the second to fourth quarters of tree ring width was mainly influenced by maximum temperature and precipitation in the current growing season. When comparing wet and dry years, beech from all sites showed a similar response, with reduced TRW and changes in intra-annual variation in vessel area. Our findings suggest that changes in temperature and precipitation regimes as predicted by most climate change scenarios will affect tree-ring increments and wood structure in beech, yet the response between sites or populations may differ.

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Tree-Ring Width and Carbon Isotope Chronologies Track Temperature, Humidity, and Baseflow in the Tianshan Mountains, Central Asia

Forests ◽

10.3390/f11121308 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 1308

Author(s):

Yuting Fan ◽

Huaming Shang ◽

Ye Wu ◽

Qian Li

Keyword(s):

Stable Isotopes ◽

Tree Ring ◽

Ring Width ◽

River Basins ◽

Tianshan Mountains ◽

Limiting Factor ◽

Source Water ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

The North ◽

Temperature And Precipitation

Concerns have been raised about the negative impacts of global warming on the hydrological climate change and ecosystems of Asia. Research on the high-altitude mountainous regions of Asia with relatively short meteorological and hydrological records relies on paleoclimate proxy data with long time scales. The stable isotopes of tree-rings are insightful agents that provide information on pre-instrumental climatic and hydrological fluctuations, yet the variability of these data from different regions along the Tianshan Mountains has not been fully explored. Herein, we related climate data with tree-ring width (TRW) chronologies and δ13C (stable carbon isotope discrimination) series to discern if the Picea schrenkiana in the Ili and Manas River Basins are sensitive to climatic factors and baseflow (BF). The results show significant correlations between temperature and TRW chronologies, temperature and δ13C, relative humidity and TRW chronologies, and BF and δ13C. Temperature, particularly the mean late summer to early winter temperature, is a pronounced limiting factor for the tree-ring and the δ13C series in the Manas River Basin, located in the middle of the North Tianshan Mountains. Meanwhile, mean early spring to early autumn temperature is a limiting factor for that of the Ili River Basin, located on the southern slope of the North Tianshan Mountains. We conclude that different seasonal variations in temperature and precipitation of the two river basins exerted significant control on tree growth dynamics. Tree-ring width and tree-ring δ13C differ in their sensitivity to climate and hydrological parameters to which tree-ring δ13C is more sensitive. δ13C showed significant lag with precipitation, and the lag correlation showed that BF, temperature, and precipitation were the most affected factors that are often associated with source water environments. δ13C series correlated positively to winter precipitation, suggesting baseflow was controlling the length of the growing season. The tree-ring δ13C provided information that coincided with TRW chronologies, and supplied some indications that were different from TRW chronologies. The carbon stable isotopes of tree-rings have proven to be powerful evidence of climatic signals and source water variations.

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Climate response of tree-ring width in Larix sibirica growing in the drought-stressed forest-steppe ecotone of northern Mongolia

Annals of Forest Science ◽

10.1007/s13595-011-0043-9 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 68 (2) ◽

pp. 275-282 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Choimaa Dulamsuren ◽

Markus Hauck ◽

Hanns Hubert Leuschner ◽

Christoph Leuschner

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Ring Width ◽

Larix Sibirica ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Climate Response ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

Northern Mongolia

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Evaluation of a dendroclimatic process-based model (MAIDEN) over the last century using the PAGES2k tree-ring width database

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8247 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jeanne Rezsöhazy ◽

Hugues Goosse ◽

Joël Guiot

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Ring Width ◽

Climatic Conditions ◽

System Model ◽

Test Case ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

Modeling And Analysis ◽

Temperature And Precipitation ◽

Wide Range ◽

Statistical Approaches

Trees are one of the main archives to reconstruct the climate of the last millennium at high resolution. The links between tree-ring proxies and climate have usually been estimated on the basis of statistical approaches, assuming linear and stationary relationships. Both assumptions can be inadequate and this issue can be overcome by ecophysiological models such as MAIDEN (Modeling and Analysis In DENdroecology), which simulates tree-ring growth starting from temperature and precipitation daily inputs. A protocol for the application of MAIDEN to potentially any site with tree-ring width data in the extratropical region has been developed in Rezs&#246;hazy et al. (2019) (in review). In this study, the applicability of the model has been tested over the twentieth century using as a test case tree-ring observations from twenty-one Eastern Canadian taiga sites and three European sites. The paper highlights the potential of MAIDEN as a complex mechanistic proxy system model to analyse the links between tree growth and climatic conditions in paleoclimatic applications. Following on from this recent work, MAIDEN is here applied to the PAGES2k tree-ring width database over the last century using the protocol developed in Rezs&#246;hazy et al. (2019) (in review). We show how this larger network allows refining our protocol. We identify the regions and sites where MAIDEN can be successfully applied, as well as estimate the uncertainty associated with the use of MAIDEN for a wide range of sites.&#160;Rezs&#246;hazy, J., Goosse, H., Guiot, J., Gennaretti, F., Boucher, E., Andr&#233;, F., and Jonard, M.: Application and evaluation of the dendroclimatic process-based model MAIDEN during the last century in Canada and Europe, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-140, in review, 2019.

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Development of the tree-ring width chronology ofBetula tianschanicafor the Kaiduhe River watershed and its climate response

Acta Ecologica Sinica ◽

10.5846/stxb201306111650 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 35 (9) ◽

Author(s):

张同文 ZHANG Tongwen ◽

袁玉江 YUAN Yujiang ◽

魏文寿 WEI Wenshou ◽

张瑞波 ZHANG Ruibo ◽

喻树龙 YU Shulong ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Ring Width ◽

Climate Response ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

River Watershed

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Tree Ring and Climate change in Langtang National Park, Central Nepal

Our Nature ◽

10.3126/on.v8i1.4321 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 139-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

P.K. Chhetri ◽

S. Thapa

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Growth Rate ◽

Tree Ring ◽

National Park ◽

Environmental Changes ◽

Ring Width ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

Central Nepal ◽

Old Trees ◽

Mean Sensitivity

In present study 120 tree cores from 60 trees of Abies spectabilis from two different sites Chandanbari and Cholangpati area of Langtang National Park were collected. Analysis of increment cores showed that trees in those stands were 100-300 years old. Trees of Chandanbari site were found to be older than Cholangpati. Mean tree ring width of Chandanbari was 2.34 mm and that of Cholangpati site 1.70 mm. Growth rate was higher (2.34 mm/yr) at the Chandanbari than that of Cholangpati (1.70 mm/yr). Series intercorrelation and mean sensitivity were 0.457 and 0.223 for Chandanbari and 0.499 and 0.203 for Cholangpati, respectively. The high mean sensitivity value indicated that high inter-annual variability was present in the ring widths and that the chronology was sensitive to yearly environmental changes; ring width was negatively correlated with minimum monthly temperature and positively correlated with total monthly precipitation.DOI: 10.3126/on.v8i1.4321

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Climate Signals in Earlywood, Latewood and Tree-Ring Width Chronologies of Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) from Majdanpek, North–Eastern Serbia

Drvna industrija ◽

10.5552/drvind.2021.2016 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 79-87

Author(s):

Nenad Radaković ◽

Branko Stajić

Keyword(s):

Tree Ring ◽

Ring Width ◽

Quercus Petraea ◽

Tree Ring Width ◽

Climate Data ◽

Climate Conditions ◽

Sessile Oak ◽

Pointer Years ◽

Temperature And Precipitation ◽

North Eastern

In this article, the dependence of the sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) radial growth (tree-ring, earlywood, and latewood widths) on climate (the mean monthly temperature and precipitation totals) was studied in the Majdanpek area, north-eastern Serbia. The growth response of the oak trees to the prevailing climate conditions was dendroecologically investigated, by applying the correlation and response function, as well as by pointer years analysis. The site chronology covered 159 years (1855-2013). We found that latewood and total tree-ring width contain the imprinted positive response to the amount of precipitation in summer months (June and July) of the current growing season. The earlywood width showed no direct dependence on climate data, but it was significantly affected by the previous-year latewood width. Moreover, 40 % of the variation in the latewood width is explained by the earlywood variation in the same season. The temperature was not found to have any significant effect on the growth of oak at the study site. The use of pointer years, determined by applying several calculation procedures, has highlighted previous results, indicating that the precipitation in summer months was the deciding climate factor leading to the occurrence of the years with exceptionally wide or narrow tree-rings and latewood. To enhance our understanding of the response of the sessile oak growth at south-oriented sites with a shallow soil profile to precipitation and temperature variations, and expand the current database and knowledge, future studies should be undertaken.

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