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

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.

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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

Abstract

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.

Citovat

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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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. \textit{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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