Age-related drought sensitivity of Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) in the Moroccan Middle Atlas forests

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 88-96

  Linares, Juan Carlos ^a   Taïqui, Lahcen ^b   Sangüesa Barreda, Gabriel ^c   Seco, José Ignacio ^a   Camarero, Jesús Julio ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b ABDELMALEK ESSAADI UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^d FUNDACIÓN ARAID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cedrus atlantica; Dendroecology; Drought; Growth climate relationships; Linear mixed effects models; Standardized precipitation index

Indexed keywords

AGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH RATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STANDARDIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MOROCCO;

ATLAS CEDAR; CEDRUS; CEDRUS ATLANTICA;

EID: 84878016739     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Akaike H. A new look at statistical model identification. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 1974, 19:716-722.
2. Akkemik Ü. Tree rings of Cedrus libani at the northern boundary of its natural distribution. IAWA Journal 2003, 24:63-73.
3. Allen C.D., Breshears D.D. Drought-induced shift of a forest-woodland ecotone: rapid landscape response to climate variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1998, 95:14839-14842.
4. Allen C.D., Macalady A.K., Chenchouni H., Bachelet D., McDowell N., Vennetier M., Kitzberger T., Rigling A., Breshears D.D., Hogg E.H., Gonzalez P., Fensham R., Zhang Z., Castro J., Demidova N., Lim J.-H., Allard G., Running S.W., Semerci A., Cobb N. A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests. Forest Ecology and Management 2010, 259:660-684.
5. Aussenac G., Finkelstein D. Influence de la sécheresse sur la croissance et la photosynthèses du Cèdre. Annales des Sciences Forestières 1983, 40:67-77.
6. Benabid A. Biogéographie phytosociologie et phytodynamique des cédraies de l'Atlas (Cedrus atlantica, Manetti). Le cèdre de l'Atlas. Actes du séminaire international sur le cèdre de l'Atlas. Annales Recherche Forestière au Maroc 1994, 27:62-76.
7. Bentouati A. La situation du cèdre de l'Atlas en Algérie. Foret Méditerranéen 2008, 29:203-208.
8. Bigler C.J., Gricar J., Bugmann H., Cufar K. Growth patterns as indicators of impending tree death in silver fir. Forest Ecology and Management 2004, 199:183-190.
9. Biondi F., Waikul K. DENDROCLIM2002: a C++ program for statistical calibration of climate signals in tree-ring chronologies. Computers and Geosciences 2004, 30:303-311.
10. Bond B.J. Age-related changes in photosynthesis of woody plants. Trends Plant Sciences 2000, 5:349-353.
11. Bordi I., Frigio S., Parenti P., Speranza A., Sutera A. The analysis of the Standardized Precipitation Index in the Mediterranean area: large-scale patterns. Annali di Geofisica 2001, 44:965-978.
12. Borgaonkar H.P., Pant G.B., Kumar K.R. Tree-ring chronologies from western Himalaya and their dendroclimatic potential. IAWA Journal 1999, 20:295-309.
13. Burnham K.P., Anderson D.R. Model Selection and Multimodel Inference 2002, Springer-Verlag, New York, 488 pp.
14. Camarero J.J., Bigler C.J., Linares J.C., Gil-Pelegrín E. Synergistic effects of past historical logging and drought on the decline of Pyrenean silver fir forests. Forest Ecology and Management 2011, 262:759-769.
15. Camperio Ciani A., Martinoli C., Capiluppi C., Arahou M., Mouna M. Effects of water availability and habitat quality on bark-stripping behavior in Barbary macaques. Conservation Biology 2001, 15:259-265.
16. Candel-Pérez D., Linares J.C., Viñegla B., Lucas-Borja M.E. Assessing climate-growth relationships under contrasting stands of co-occurring Iberian pines along an altitudinal gradient. Forest Ecology and Management 2012, 274:48-57.
17. Carrer M., Urbinati C. Age-dependent tree ring growth responses to climate of Larix decidua and Pinus cembra in the Italian Alps. Ecology 2004, 85:730-740.
18. Cheddadi R., Fady B., François L., Hajar L., Suc J.-P., Huang K., Demateau M., Vendramin G., Ortu E. Putative glacial refugia of Cedrus atlantica deduced from quaternary pollen records and modern genetic diversity. Journal of Biogeography 2009, 36:1361-1371.
19. Chenchouni H., Abdelkrim S.B., Athmane B. The deterioration of the Atlas cedar, Cedrus atlantica, in Algeria. International Conference Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies, and Practices 2008.
20. Cook, E.R., 1985. A time series analysis approach to tree ring standardization. PhD Dissertation. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 171 pp.
21. Cook E.R., Peters K. The smoothing spline: a new approach to standardizing forest interior tree-ring width series for dendroclimatic studies. Tree-Ring Bulletin 1981, 4:45-53.
22. Cook E.R., Peters K. Calculating unbiased tree-ring indices for the study of climatic and environmental change. The Holocene 1997, 7:361-370.
23. CRU, 2008. University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). CRU Datasets, [Internet]. British Atmospheric Data Centre, 2008, 16 March 2012. Available from http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/cru.
24. Dobbertin M. Tree growth as indicator of tree vitality and of tree reaction to environmental stress: a review. European Journal of Forest Research 2005, 124:319-333.
25. Domec J.C., Gartner B.L. Age- and position-related changes in hydraulic versus mechanical dysfunction of xylem: inferring the design criteria for Douglas-fir wood structure. Tree Physiology 2002, 22:91-104.
26. Edwards D.C., McKee T.B. Characteristics of 20th Century Drought in the United States at Multiple Time Scales 1997, Fort Collins, Colorado, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA, 155 pp.
27. Esper J., Frank D.C., Büntgen U., Verstege A., Luterbacher J., Xoplaki E. Long-term drought severity variations in Morocco. Geophysical Research Letters 2007, 34:L17702.
28. Esper J., Niederer R., Bebi P., Frank D.C. Climate signal age effects - evidence from young and old trees in the Swiss Engadin. Forest Ecology and Management 2008, 255:3783-3789.
29. Farjon A. A Natural History of Conifers 2008, Timber Press, Portland, 304 pp.
30. Fritts H.C. Tree Rings and Climate 1976, Academic Press, London, 567 pp.
31. Galiano L., Martinez-Vilalta J., Lloret F. Drought-induced multifactor decline of Scots pine in the Pyrenees and potential vegetation change by the expansion of co-occurring oak species. Ecosystems 2010, 13:978-991.
32. Gonzalez P., Neilson R.P., Drapek R.J. Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography 2010, 19:755-768.
33. Hereş A.M., Martínez-Vilalta J., López B.C. Growth patterns in relation to drought-induced mortality at two Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sites in NE Iberian Peninsula. Trees 2012, 26:621-630.
34. Holmes R.L. Computer-assisted quality control in tree-ring dating and measurement. Tree-Ring Bulletin 1983, 43:68-78.
35. Hunt E.R., Lavigne M.B., Franklin S.E. Factors controlling the decline of net primary production with stand age for balsam fir in Newfoundland assessed using an ecosystem simulation model. Ecological Modeling 1999, 122:151-164.
36. Kolb T.E., Agee J.K., Fule P.Z., McDowell N.G., Pearson K., Sala A., Waring R.H. Perpetuating old ponderosa pine. Forest Ecology and Management 2007, 249:141-157.
37. Linares J.C., Taïqui L., Camarero J.J. Increasing drought sensitivity and decline of Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica) in the Moroccan Middle Atlas forests. Forests 2011, 2:777-796.
38. Linares J.C., Tíscar P.A. Climate change impacts and vulnerability of the southern populations of Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii. Tree Physiology 2010, 30:795-806.
39. Linares J.C., Camarero J.J. Growth patterns and sensitivity to climate predict silver fir decline in the Spanish Pyrenees. European Journal of Forest Research 2012, 131:1001-1012.
40. Litton C., Raich J.W., Ryan M.G. Carbon allocation in forest ecosystems. Global Change Biology 2007, 13:2089-2109.
41. Lloret F., Keeling E.G., Sala A. Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests. Oikos 2011, 120:1909-1920.
42. Magnani F., Mencuccini M., Grace J. Age-related decline in stand productivity: the role of structural acclimation under hydraulic constraints. Plant, Cell and Environment 2000, 23:251-263.
43. Martínez-Vilalta J., López B.C., Adell N., Badiella L., Ninyerola M. Twentieth century increase of Scots pine radial growth in NE Spain shows strong climate interactions. Global Change Biology 2008, 14:2868-2881.
44. McDowell N., Pockman W.T., Allen C.D., Breshears D.D., Cobb N., Kolb T., Sperry J., West A., Williams D., Yepez E.A. Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?. New Phytologist 2008, 178:719-739.
45. McKee T.B., Doesken N.J., Kleist J. The relationship of drought frecuency and duration to time scales. Eighth Conference on Applied Climatology 1993, 179-184. American Meteorological Society, Anaheim.
46. McKee, T.B., Doesken, N.J., Kleist, J., 1993b. Drought monitoring with multiple timescales. Paper presented at the Preprints, Eighth Conference on Applied Climatology, Anaheim, California, USA, pp. 233-236.
47. Mhirit O. Le cèdre de l'Atlas (Cedrus atlantica Manetti). Présentation générale et état des connaissances à travers le reseau Silva Mediterranea 'Le Cèdre'. Annales de la Recherche Forestière au Maroc 1994, 27:4-21.
48. Mokrim A. Dépérisement du cèdre de l' Atlas: Ambiance climatique et bilan de la croissance radiale. Annales de la Recherche Forestière au Maroc 2009, 41:48-68.
49. Osborn T.J., Briffa K.R., Jones P.D. Adjusting variance for sample size in treering chronologies and other regional mean time series. Dendrochronologia 1997, 15:89-99.
50. Phillips N., Bond B.J., McDowell N.G., Ryan M.G. Canopy and hydraulic conductance in young, mature and old Douglas fir trees. Tree Physiology 2002, 22:205-211.
51. Pinheiro J., Bates D., DebRoy S., Sarkar D. nlme: Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models. R Package Version 3.1-92 2011.
52. R Development Core Team R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing 2012, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
53. 2 flux. Global Change Biology 2006, 12:1378-1389.
54. Rossi S., Deslauriers A., Anfodillo T., Carrer M. Age-dependent xylogenesis in timberline conifers. New Phytologist 2008, 177:199-208.
55. Ryan M.G., Binkley D., Fownes J.H. Age-related decline in forest productivity: patterns and process. Advances in Ecological Research 1997, 27:213-262.
56. Ryan M.G., Phillips N., Bond B.J. The hydraulic limitation hypothesis revisited. Plant, Cell and Environment 2006, 29:367-381.
57. Ryan M.G., Yoder B.J. Hydraulic limits to tree height and tree growth. BioScience 1997, 47:235-242.
58. Till C. The summary response function of Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) Carriere in Morocco. Tree-Ring Bulletin 1987, 47:23-36.
59. Till C., Guiot J. Reconstruction of precipitation in Morocco since 1100 AD based on Cedrus atlantica tree-ring widths. Quaternary Research 1999, 33:337-351.
60. Touchan R., Anchukaitis K.J., Meko D.M., Attalah S., Baisan C., Aloui A. Long term context for recent drought in northwestern Africa. Geophysical Research Letters 2008, 35:L13705.
61. Touchan R., Xoplaki E., Funkhouser E., Luterbacher J., Hughes M.K., Erkan N., Akkemik U., Stephan J. Reconstructions of spring/summer precipitation for the Eastern Mediterranean from tree-ring widths and its connection to large-scale atmospheric circulation. Climate Dynamics 2005, 25:75-98.
62. Vaganov E.A., Hughes M.K., Shashkin A.V. Growth Dynamics of Conifer Tree rings: Images of Past and Future Environments 2006, Springer, Berlin, 354 pp.
63. van der Schrier G., Briffa K.R., Jones P.D., Osborn T.J. Summer moisture variability across Europe. Journal of Climate 2006, 19:2818-2834.
64. van Mantgem P.J., Stephenson N.L., Byrne J.C., Daniels L.D., Franklin J.F., Fulé P.Z., Harmon M.E., Larson A.J., Smith J.M., Taylor A.H., Veblen T.T. Widespread increase of tree mortality rates in the western United States. Science 2009, 323:521-524.
65. Voelker S.L. Age-dependent changes in environmental influences on tree growth and their implications for forest responses to climate change. Size- and Age-related Changes in Tree Structure and Function 2011, 455-479. Springer, Dordrecht. F.C. Meinzer, B. Lachenbruch, T.E. Dawson (Eds.).
66. Wharton S., Schroeder M., Bible K., Falk M., Paw U.K.T. Stand-level gas-exchange responses to seasonal drought in very young versus old Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Tree Physiology 2009, 29:959-974.
67. Yoder B.J., Ryan M.G., Waring R.H., Schoettle A.W., Kaufmann M.R. Evidence of reduced photosynthetic rates in old trees. Forest Science 1994, 40:513-527.
68. Zweifel R., Eugster W., Etzold S., Dobbertin M., Buchmann N., Häsler R. Link between continuous stem radius changes and net ecosystem productivity of a subalpine Norway spruce forest in the Swiss Alps. New Phytologist 2010, 187:819-830.