J 2014

Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context

BÜNTGEN, Ulf; Willy TEGEL; Jed O KAPLAN; Marcus SCHAUB; Frank HAGEDORN et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context

Autoři

BÜNTGEN, Ulf; Willy TEGEL; Jed O KAPLAN; Marcus SCHAUB; Frank HAGEDORN; Matthias BÜRGI; Rudolf BRÁZDIL; Gerhard HELLE; Marco CARRER; Karl-Uwe HEUSSNER; Juta HOFMANN; Raymond KONTIC; Tomáš KYNCL; Josef KYNCL; J Julio CAMARERO; Willy TINNER; Jan ESPER a Andrew LIEBHOLD

Vydání

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2014, 1540-9295

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 7.441

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/14:00075418

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000332047100005

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-84903180549

Klíčová slova anglicky

silver fir; tree-ring; forest growth; temporal changes; Europe; Holocene

Štítky

Změněno: 27. 4. 2015 15:22, Ing. Andrea Mikešková

Anotace

V originále

Forest decline played a pivotal role in motivating Europe’s political focus on sustainability around 35 years ago. Silver fir (Abies alba) exhibited a particularly severe dieback in the mid-1970s, but disentangling biotic from abiotic drivers remained challenging because both spatial and temporal data were lacking. Here, we analyze 14 136 samples from living trees and historical timbers, together with 356 pollen records, to evaluate recent fir growth from a continent-wide and Holocene-long perspective. Land use and climate change influenced forest growth over the past millennium, whereas anthropogenic emissions of acidic sulfates and nitrates became important after about 1850. Pollution control since the 1980s, together with a warmer but not drier climate, has facilitated an unprecedented surge in productivity across Central European fir stands. Restricted fir distribution prior to the Mesolithic and again in the Modern Era, separated by a peak in abundance during the Bronze Age, is indicative of the long-term interplay of changing temperatures, shifts in the hydrological cycle, and human impacts that have shaped forest structure and productivity.