Tree growth response of Fokienia hodginsii to recent climate warming and drought in southwest China

To date, few attempts have been made to assess the influence of climate change on forest ecosystems and on the relationship between tree growth and climate in humid areas of low latitudes. In this paper, we studied the response of tree growth and forest ecosystem to climate change by using Fokienia...

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Published in:International journal of biometeorology 2017-12, Vol.61 (12), p.2085-2096
Main Authors: Su, Jiajia, Gou, Xiaohua, Deng, Yang, Zhang, Ruibo, Liu, Wenhuo, Zhang, Fen, Lu, Ming, Chen, Yao, Zheng, Wuji
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal Physiology
Biological and Medical Physics
Biophysics
Climate change
Climate change influences
Climatic conditions
Cores
Correlation analysis
Drought
Earth and Environmental Science
Environment
Environmental Health
Fokienia hodginsii
Forest ecosystems
Forests
Global warming
Humid areas
Humid climates
Limiting factors
Mean temperatures
Meteorological data
Meteorology
Mortality
Original Paper
Plant Physiology
Precipitation
Reduction
Spring temperatures
Temperature effects
Terrestrial ecosystems
Tree growth
Trees
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Summary:To date, few attempts have been made to assess the influence of climate change on forest ecosystems and on the relationship between tree growth and climate in humid areas of low latitudes. In this paper, we studied the response of tree growth and forest ecosystem to climate change by using Fokienia hodginsii tree-ring cores from the northern Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest of China. Tree growth correlates the highest ( r = − 0.64, p  
ISSN:0020-7128
1432-1254
DOI:10.1007/s00484-017-1409-y