Climatic impact on functional wood anatomy, seasonal wood formation, and tree growth along altitudinal gradients on Corsica
Final Report Abstract
The dendroecology project was one out of four projects within the bundle project CorsicArchive. It analysed tree growth of two native pine species rates along climatic gradients at different temporal resolutions and related long-term and seasonal growth variations to climatic variables and the controlling weather patterns. We found that the climate factors controlling tree growth generally shift from precipitation to temperature towards high elevations, but even close to the tree line tree growth is limited by moisture availability during the summer months. The wood anatomical investigations shed more light on IADF formation in co-occurring Mediterranean pine species and their environmental control. The combination between wood anatomical approaches, high-resolution dendrometer measurements and synoptic climatology led to new ways how to integrate tree growth data and regional weather patterns. The exact dating of intraannual stable isotope tree-ring data with the help of cambial growth models is a new approach that will improve the explanatory power of high-resolution stable isotope analyses in tree rings. Beside of scientific publications, project results were also presented to public stakeholders and policy makers during a workshop in Corsica that led to public awareness and media reconnection in local newspapers, but also in nationwide French newspapers such as Le Figaro. After the results will be published, all data sets of the dendroecology project’s publications will be made available on the open access long-term data repository PANGAEA (www.pangaea.de).
Publications
- (2019): Growth variability of two native pine species on Corsica as a function of altitude. Dendrochronologia 54: 49-55
Häusser, M., Szymczak, S., Garel, E., Santoni, S., Huneau, F., Bräuning, A.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.02.002) - (2019): The relationship between climate and the intra-annual oxygen isotope patterns from pine trees: a case study along an elevation gradient on Corsica, France. Annals of Forest Science 76
Szymczak, S., Bräuning, A., Häusser, M., Garel, E., Huneau, F., Santoni, S.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-019-0860-9) - (2020): A Dencroecological fire history for Central Corsica/France. Tree-Ring Research 76(1): 40–53
Szymczak, S., Bräuning, A., Häusser, M., Garel, E., Huneau, F., Santoni, S.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3959/TRR2019-2) - (2020): How do Mediterranean pine trees respond to drought and precipitation events along an elevation gradient? Forests 11, 758
Szymczak, S., Häusser, M., Garel, E., Santoni, S., Huneau, F., Knerr, I., Trachte, K., Bendix, J., Bräuning, A.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3390/f11070758) - (2020): “dendRoAnalyst”: A tool for processing and analysing dendrometer data. Dendrochronologia 64, 125772
Aryal, S., Häusser, M., Grießinger, J., Fan, Z., Bräuning, A.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125772) - (2021): The dry and the wet case: tree growth response in climatologically contrasting years on the island of Corsica. Forests 12, 1175
Häusser, M., Szymczak S., Knerr, I., Bendix, J, Garel, E., Huneau, F., Trachte, K, Santoni, S., Bräuning, A.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3390/f12091175)
