Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient

Key message The ongoing global warming tends to reduce Larix decidua radial growth and ring wood density at the bottom of an elevational gradient in the French Alps, while it has a less marked effect at the top. Context: The ongoing climate warming affects most tree species across their biogeographi...

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Main Authors: Rozenberg, Philippe, Chauvin, Thibaud, Escobar-Sandoval, Margarita, Huard, Frédéric, Shishov, Vladimir, Charpentier, Jean-Paul, Sergent, Anne Sophie, Vargas-Hernandez, José Jesus, Martinez Meier, Alejandro, Pâques, Luc
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13595-020-00958-w
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author Rozenberg, Philippe
Chauvin, Thibaud
Escobar-Sandoval, Margarita
Huard, Frédéric
Shishov, Vladimir
Charpentier, Jean-Paul
Sergent, Anne Sophie
Vargas-Hernandez, José Jesus
Martinez Meier, Alejandro
Pâques, Luc
author_browse Charpentier, Jean-Paul
Chauvin, Thibaud
Escobar-Sandoval, Margarita
Huard, Frédéric
Martinez Meier, Alejandro
Pâques, Luc
Rozenberg, Philippe
Sergent, Anne Sophie
Shishov, Vladimir
Vargas-Hernandez, José Jesus
author_facet Rozenberg, Philippe
Chauvin, Thibaud
Escobar-Sandoval, Margarita
Huard, Frédéric
Shishov, Vladimir
Charpentier, Jean-Paul
Sergent, Anne Sophie
Vargas-Hernandez, José Jesus
Martinez Meier, Alejandro
Pâques, Luc
author_sort Rozenberg, Philippe
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description Key message The ongoing global warming tends to reduce Larix decidua radial growth and ring wood density at the bottom of an elevational gradient in the French Alps, while it has a less marked effect at the top. Context: The ongoing climate warming affects most tree species across their biogeographic distribution range. The bottom and the top of an elevational gradient are appropriate environments to observe the effect of climate warming in contrasted temperature conditions. Aims: To retrospectively study the effect of the ongoing climate warming on Larix decidua trees located in warm and cold conditions, i.e., at the bottom (1200 m) and the top (2300 m) of an elevational gradient, respectively. Methods: Dendroecological analysis of two groups of Larix decidua trees located at very low (1200 m) and very high (2300 m) elevations. Construction of climatic response curves for annual ring variables. Decomposition of the variance of the response models into their high and low frequency components. Results: At Briançon, in the French Alps, the increase of the daily maximum temperature during the last 50 years is already almost 3 °C for the March–October period. The results reveal contrasted behaviors at both ends of the investigated elevational gradient. Basal area increment, ring width, and their earlywood and latewood components increase or level off at the top of the gradient, while they all strongly decrease at the bottom. At the bottom, the low frequency warming effect explains the recent ring width decrease, with no influence of the high frequency temperature variation. At the top, both the low frequency warming effect and the high frequency temperature effect explain each about half of the ring width variation encompassed by the model. Latewood density displays the same trend as ring width, while earlywood density decreases at both ends of the gradient. Conclusion: Such opposed trends of the radial growth time trends between the top (2300 m) and the bottom (1200 m) of the gradient reflects the respectively favorable and unfavorable effects of climate warming at such ends of this Larix decidua elevational gradient. We propose that the strong ring width decrease observed at the warmer bottom announces a coming dieback. The corresponding wood density decrease will affect wood hydraulic properties in a way that is unclear.
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spelling INTA74202020-06-16T17:09:13Z Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient Rozenberg, Philippe Chauvin, Thibaud Escobar-Sandoval, Margarita Huard, Frédéric Shishov, Vladimir Charpentier, Jean-Paul Sergent, Anne Sophie Vargas-Hernandez, José Jesus Martinez Meier, Alejandro Pâques, Luc Larix decidua Pinales Anillo de Crecimiento Bosques Cambio Climático Adaptación al Cambio Climático Growth Rings Forests Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation Gradientes Altitudinales Key message The ongoing global warming tends to reduce Larix decidua radial growth and ring wood density at the bottom of an elevational gradient in the French Alps, while it has a less marked effect at the top. Context: The ongoing climate warming affects most tree species across their biogeographic distribution range. The bottom and the top of an elevational gradient are appropriate environments to observe the effect of climate warming in contrasted temperature conditions. Aims: To retrospectively study the effect of the ongoing climate warming on Larix decidua trees located in warm and cold conditions, i.e., at the bottom (1200 m) and the top (2300 m) of an elevational gradient, respectively. Methods: Dendroecological analysis of two groups of Larix decidua trees located at very low (1200 m) and very high (2300 m) elevations. Construction of climatic response curves for annual ring variables. Decomposition of the variance of the response models into their high and low frequency components. Results: At Briançon, in the French Alps, the increase of the daily maximum temperature during the last 50 years is already almost 3 °C for the March–October period. The results reveal contrasted behaviors at both ends of the investigated elevational gradient. Basal area increment, ring width, and their earlywood and latewood components increase or level off at the top of the gradient, while they all strongly decrease at the bottom. At the bottom, the low frequency warming effect explains the recent ring width decrease, with no influence of the high frequency temperature variation. At the top, both the low frequency warming effect and the high frequency temperature effect explain each about half of the ring width variation encompassed by the model. Latewood density displays the same trend as ring width, while earlywood density decreases at both ends of the gradient. Conclusion: Such opposed trends of the radial growth time trends between the top (2300 m) and the bottom (1200 m) of the gradient reflects the respectively favorable and unfavorable effects of climate warming at such ends of this Larix decidua elevational gradient. We propose that the strong ring width decrease observed at the warmer bottom announces a coming dieback. The corresponding wood density decrease will affect wood hydraulic properties in a way that is unclear. Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche Fil: Rozenberg, Philippe. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); Francia Fil: Chauvin, Thibaud. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); Francia Fil: Escobar-Sandoval, Margarita. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); Francia Fil: Huard, Frédéric. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); Francia Fil: Shishov, Vladimir. Siberian Federal University. Institute of Economics and Trade. Math Methods and IT Department; Rusia Fil: Charpentier, Jean-Paul. nstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); Francia Fil: Sergent, Anne Sophie. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Vargas-Hernandez, José Jesus. Colegio de Postgraduados. Ciencias Forestales; Mexico Fil: Martinez Meier, Alejandro. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Área de Recursos Forestales. Grupo de Ecología Forestal; Argentina Fil: Pâques, Luc. Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA); Francia 2020-06-16T16:55:15Z 2020-06-16T16:55:15Z 2020-06 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7420 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13595-020-00958-w 1286-4560 1297-966X https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-020-00958-w eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf Springer Annals of Forest Science 77 : art. 54 (June 2020)
spellingShingle Larix decidua
Pinales
Anillo de Crecimiento
Bosques
Cambio Climático
Adaptación al Cambio Climático
Growth Rings
Forests
Climate Change
Climate Change Adaptation
Gradientes Altitudinales
Rozenberg, Philippe
Chauvin, Thibaud
Escobar-Sandoval, Margarita
Huard, Frédéric
Shishov, Vladimir
Charpentier, Jean-Paul
Sergent, Anne Sophie
Vargas-Hernandez, José Jesus
Martinez Meier, Alejandro
Pâques, Luc
Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient
title Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient
title_full Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient
title_fullStr Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient
title_full_unstemmed Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient
title_short Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient
title_sort climate warming differently affects larix decidua ring formation at each end of a french alps elevational gradient
topic Larix decidua
Pinales
Anillo de Crecimiento
Bosques
Cambio Climático
Adaptación al Cambio Climático
Growth Rings
Forests
Climate Change
Climate Change Adaptation
Gradientes Altitudinales
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7420
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13595-020-00958-w
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-020-00958-w
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