Forest growth in Europe shows diverging large regional trends
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Forest growth in Europe shows diverging large regional trends. / Pretzsch, Hans; Río, Miren del; Arcangeli, Catia; Bielak, Kamil; Dudzinska, Malgorzata; Forrester, David Ian; Klädtke, Joachim; Kohnle, Ulrich; Ledermann, Thomas; Matthews, Robert; Nagel, Jürgen; Nagel, Ralf; Ningre, François; Nord-Larsen, Thomas; Biber, Peter.
In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 13, 15373, 2023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Forest growth in Europe shows diverging large regional trends
AU - Pretzsch, Hans
AU - Río, Miren del
AU - Arcangeli, Catia
AU - Bielak, Kamil
AU - Dudzinska, Malgorzata
AU - Forrester, David Ian
AU - Klädtke, Joachim
AU - Kohnle, Ulrich
AU - Ledermann, Thomas
AU - Matthews, Robert
AU - Nagel, Jürgen
AU - Nagel, Ralf
AU - Ningre, François
AU - Nord-Larsen, Thomas
AU - Biber, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Forests cover about one-third of Europe’s surface and their growth is essential for climate protection through carbon sequestration and many other economic, environmental, and sociocultural ecosystem services. However, reports on how climate change affects forest growth are contradictory, even for same regions. We used 415 unique long-term experiments including 642 plots across Europe covering seven tree species and surveys from 1878 to 2016, and showed that on average forest growth strongly accelerated since the earliest surveys. Based on a subset of 189 plots in Scots pine (the most widespread tree species in Europe) and high-resolution climate data, we identified clear large-regional differences; growth is strongly increasing in Northern Europe and decreasing in the Southwest. A less pronounced increase, which is probably not mainly driven by climate, prevails on large areas of Western, Central and Eastern Europe. The identified regional growth trends suggest adaptive management on regional level for achieving climate-smart forests.
AB - Forests cover about one-third of Europe’s surface and their growth is essential for climate protection through carbon sequestration and many other economic, environmental, and sociocultural ecosystem services. However, reports on how climate change affects forest growth are contradictory, even for same regions. We used 415 unique long-term experiments including 642 plots across Europe covering seven tree species and surveys from 1878 to 2016, and showed that on average forest growth strongly accelerated since the earliest surveys. Based on a subset of 189 plots in Scots pine (the most widespread tree species in Europe) and high-resolution climate data, we identified clear large-regional differences; growth is strongly increasing in Northern Europe and decreasing in the Southwest. A less pronounced increase, which is probably not mainly driven by climate, prevails on large areas of Western, Central and Eastern Europe. The identified regional growth trends suggest adaptive management on regional level for achieving climate-smart forests.
U2 - 10.1038/s41598-023-41077-6
DO - 10.1038/s41598-023-41077-6
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37716997
AN - SCOPUS:85171400727
VL - 13
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
SN - 2045-2322
M1 - 15373
ER -
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