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
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.