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| Dynamic relationships between Picea crassifolia growth and climate at upper treeline in the Qilian Mts., Northeast Tibetan Plateau, China | |
Zhang, Yongxiang1; Shao, Xuemei2 ; Wilmking, Martin1
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| 2011 | |
| Source Publication | DENDROCHRONOLOGIA
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| Volume | 29Issue:4Pages:185-199 |
| Abstract | Knowledge of the spatial pattern and temporal relationships between tree-growth and climatic factors are important not only for the projection of forest growth under varying climate but for dendroclimatology in general. Here, we systematically investigated tree-growth climate relationships of Picea crassifolia at upper treeline in the Qilian Mts., northwestern China. 297 trees from eleven sites, covering a large part of the natural range of this species, show increasing and partly divergent correlations with temperature in the most recent decades. The dominant signal at all sites was a strengthening of negative correlations of annual radial growth with summer temperature. In a subset of trees at six sites, a strengthening positive correlation with summer temperatures existed as well. Wetter and high altitude sites tended to show a higher percentage of trees that are positively correlated with warming temperatures, indicating that some individuals there may take advantage of warmer conditions. Divergent responses between the two sub-populations clustered by their response to climate factor were significantly stronger in the last 30 years compared to earlier time slices. In the same time frame, hydrothermal conditions of the investigation area changed to a drier and warmer combination. Drought conditions, most likely affecting the radial growth of most P. crassifolia, have been intensifying over time and expanding spatially from the middle Qilian Mts. to most of our study area during the last half century. While explanations such as methodological effects due to trend removal or human disturbance at the sampling sites might be able to explain the result at single sites, the spatial and temporal co-occurrence of large scale changes in climate and tree growth suggests a causal link between them. (C) 2011 Istituto Italiano di Dendrocronologia. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved. |
| Subtype | Article |
| Keyword | Picea Crassifolia Recent Warming Instable Climate-growth Relationships Response Divergence Drought Stress Northeast Tibet Plateau |
| WOS Headings | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| WOS Subject Extended | Plant Sciences ; Forestry |
| WOS Keyword | NORTHWESTERN CHINA ; DIVERGENCE PROBLEM ; WHITE SPRUCE ; TEMPERATURE ; RESPONSES ; SENSITIVITY ; QINGHAI ; RECONSTRUCTION ; 20TH-CENTURY ; MOUNTAINS |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Subject | Plant Sciences ; Forestry |
| WOS ID | WOS:000297183200002 |
| Publisher | ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/68018 |
| Collection | 中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所 |
| Corresponding Author | Zhang, Yongxiang |
| Affiliation | 1.Ernst Moritz Arndt Univ Greifswald, Inst Bot & Landscape Ecol, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Yongxiang,Shao, Xuemei,Wilmking, Martin. Dynamic relationships between Picea crassifolia growth and climate at upper treeline in the Qilian Mts., Northeast Tibetan Plateau, China[J]. DENDROCHRONOLOGIA,2011,29(4):185-199. |
| APA | Zhang, Yongxiang,Shao, Xuemei,&Wilmking, Martin.(2011).Dynamic relationships between Picea crassifolia growth and climate at upper treeline in the Qilian Mts., Northeast Tibetan Plateau, China.DENDROCHRONOLOGIA,29(4),185-199. |
| MLA | Zhang, Yongxiang,et al."Dynamic relationships between Picea crassifolia growth and climate at upper treeline in the Qilian Mts., Northeast Tibetan Plateau, China".DENDROCHRONOLOGIA 29.4(2011):185-199. |
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