A single-tree approach to determine climate-growth patterns of European beech and their seasonality in the species southern distribution area

作者：Roberto Serrano‐Notivoli, Jernej Jevšenak, Edurne Martínez del Castillo, Katarina Čufar, Nina Škrk, Giovanna Battipaglia, J. Julio Camarero, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Alistair S. Jump, Renzo Motta, Paola Nola, Momchil Panayotov, Ion Cătălin Petrițan, Andreï Popa, Ionel Popa, Cătălin-Constantin Roibu, Miroslav Svoboda, Christian Zang, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Angela Balzano, Franco Biondi, Vojtěch Čada, Dimitar Dimitrov, Jožica Gričar, Pavel Janda, Srđan Keren, François Lebourgeois, Guangqi Li, Luis Alberto Longares Aladrén, Ivan Lukić, Maks Merela, Stjepan Mikac, Klemen Novak, Any Mary Petriţan, Peter Prislan, Ana-Maria Roibu, Álvaro Rubio‐Cuadrado, Miloš Rydval, Miguel Ángel Saz, Ernesto Tejedor, Willy Tegel, Roberto Tognetti, Elvin Toromani, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Daniel O. Turcu, Martín de Luis · 发表于：Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110644 · 被引用次数：6 · 研究领域：Tree-ring climate responses、Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics、Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

Dry and warm climate conditions in southern Europe represent clear limits for European beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) growth near the species southern distribution limit, but it is unclear how aridification and changes in seasonal precipitation regimes will affect these forests at the individual level. We explored climate-growth relationships and the seasonality of peak climate signals in European beech using daily climate data and a large collection of tree-ring width series from southern and southeastern Europe through Generalised Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs). In most cases we found a positive and significant influence of precipitation on tree growth, and a significant negative effect of maximum temperature. Predictions from the GLMMs revealed a positive impact of precipitation during an 88 day window from spring to early summer (mid-April to mid-July), for an average tree across our network. This critical growing time window ranged from 75 days in warmer and drier conditions, and extended up to 100 days in areas with mild temperatures and moderate summer precipitation. Maximum temperatures negatively affected trees for an average of 27 day window in summer (June-July). This period was reduced to <10 days in locations with wetter and colder summers, rising up to 45 days in sites with drier and warmer summers. The positive effect of precipitation on growth was stronger and commenced earlier in larger trees. Similarly, the negative effects of maximum temperatures were more pronounc...