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 and Andrew LIEBHOLD. Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2014, vol. 12, No 2, p. 100-106. ISSN 1540-9295. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/130089.
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Original name Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context
Authors BÜNTGEN, Ulf (756 Switzerland, guarantor), Willy TEGEL (276 Germany), Jed O KAPLAN (756 Switzerland), Marcus SCHAUB (756 Switzerland), Frank HAGEDORN (756 Switzerland), Matthias BÜRGI (756 Switzerland), Rudolf BRÁZDIL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Gerhard HELLE (276 Germany), Marco CARRER (380 Italy), Karl-Uwe HEUSSNER (276 Germany), Juta HOFMANN (276 Germany), Raymond KONTIC (756 Switzerland), Tomáš KYNCL (203 Czech Republic), Josef KYNCL (203 Czech Republic), J Julio CAMARERO (724 Spain), Willy TINNER (756 Switzerland), Jan ESPER (276 Germany) and Andrew LIEBHOLD (840 United States of America).
Edition Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2014, 1540-9295.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 7.441
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/14:00075418
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/130089
UT WoS 000332047100005
Keywords in English silver fir; tree-ring; forest growth; temporal changes; Europe; Holocene
Tags AKR, rivok
Changed by Changed by: Ing. Andrea Mikešková, učo 137293. Changed: 27/4/2015 15:22.
Abstract
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.
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