PMID- 29909329
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190319
LR  - 20190319
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 642
DP  - 2018 Nov 15
TI  - Disentangling the relative role of climate change on tree growth in an extreme 
      Mediterranean environment.
PG  - 619-628
LID - S0048-9697(18)32135-1 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.064 [doi]
AB  - Climate change can impair ecosystem functions and services in extensive dry 
      forests worldwide. However, attribution of climate change impacts on tree growth 
      and forest productivity is challenging due to multiple inter-annual patterns of 
      climatic variability associated with atmospheric and oceanic circulations. 
      Moreover, growth responses to rising atmospheric CO(2), namely carbon 
      fertilization, as well as size ontogenetic changes can obscure the climate change 
      signature as well. Here we apply Structural Equation Models (SEM) to investigate 
      the relative role of climate change on tree growth in an extreme Mediterranean 
      environment (i.e., extreme in terms of the combination of sandy-unconsolidated 
      soils and climatic aridity). Specifically, we analyzed potential direct and 
      indirect pathways by which different sources of climatic variability (i.e. 
      warming and precipitation trends, the North Atlantic Oscillation, [NAO]; the 
      Mediterranean Oscillation, [MOI]; the Atlantic Mediterranean Oscillation, [AMO]) 
      affect aridity through their control on local climate (in terms of mean annual 
      temperature and total annual precipitation), and subsequently tree productivity, 
      in terms of basal area increments (BAI). Our results support the predominant role 
      of Diameter at Breast Height (DHB) as the main growth driver. In terms of 
      climate, NAO and AMO are the most important drivers of tree growth through their 
      control of aridity (via effects of precipitation and temperature, respectively). 
      Furthermore and contrary to current expectations, our findings also support a net 
      positive role of climate warming on growth over the last 50 years and suggest 
      that impacts of climate warming should be evaluated considering multi-annual and 
      multi-decadal periods of local climate defined by atmospheric and oceanic 
      circulation in the North Atlantic.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Madrigal-Gonzalez, Jaime
AU  - Madrigal-Gonzalez J
AD  - Grupo de Ecologia y Restauracion Forestal, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, 
      Universidad de Alcala, ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33.4, 28805, Alcala de Henares, 
      Spain; Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute 
      for Environmental Sciences (IES), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, 
      CH-1205, Switzerland. Electronic address: ecojmg@hotmail.com.
FAU - Andivia, Enrique
AU  - Andivia E
AD  - Grupo de Ecologia y Restauracion Forestal, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, 
      Universidad de Alcala, ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33.4, 28805, Alcala de Henares, 
      Spain.
FAU - Zavala, Miguel A
AU  - Zavala MA
AD  - Grupo de Ecologia y Restauracion Forestal, Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, 
      Universidad de Alcala, ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33.4, 28805, Alcala de Henares, 
      Spain.
FAU - Stoffel, Markus
AU  - Stoffel M
AD  - Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for 
      Environmental Sciences (IES), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, 
      CH-1205, Switzerland; Dendrolab, Department of Earth Sciences, University of 
      Geneva, rue des Maraichers 13, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland; Department F.-A, 
      Forel for Aquatic and Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard 
      Carl-Vogt, CH-1205, Switzerland.
FAU - Calatayud, Joaquin
AU  - Calatayud J
AD  - Integrated Science Lab, Department of Physics, Umea University, 901 87 Umea, 
      Sweden.
FAU - Sanchez-Salguero, Raul
AU  - Sanchez-Salguero R
AD  - Departamento de Sistemas Fisicos, Quimicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de 
      Olavide, Ctra. Utrera, km 1, 41013 Sevilla, Spain.
FAU - Ballesteros-Canovas, Juan
AU  - Ballesteros-Canovas J
AD  - Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for 
      Environmental Sciences (IES), University of Geneva, 66 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, 
      CH-1205, Switzerland; Dendrolab, Department of Earth Sciences, University of 
      Geneva, rue des Maraichers 13, CH-1205 Geneva, Switzerland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180614
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
SB  - IM
MH  - *Climate Change
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - *Forests
MH  - Mediterranean Region
MH  - Temperature
MH  - Trees/*growth & development
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
OT  - Dry forests
OT  - Mediterranean Oscillation Index
OT  - North Atlantic Oscillation
OT  - Pinus pinaster Ait
OT  - Tree growth
EDAT- 2018/06/18 06:00
MHDA- 2019/03/20 06:00
CRDT- 2018/06/18 06:00
PHST- 2018/03/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/06/05 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/06/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/06/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/03/20 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/06/18 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(18)32135-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.064 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2018 Nov 15;642:619-628. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.064. 
      Epub 2018 Jun 14.