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Título
Tree-ring distinctness, dating potential and climatic sensitivity of laurel forest tree species in Tenerife Island
Autor
Año del Documento
2022
Editorial
Elsevier
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Dendrochronologia, 2022, vol. 76, 126011
Resumen
Macaronesian laurel forests are the only remnants of a subtropical palaeoecosystem dominant during the Tertiary in Europe and northern Africa. These biodiverse ecosystems are restricted to cloudy and temperate insular environments in the North Atlantic Ocean. Due to their reduced distribution area, these forests are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbances and changes in climatic conditions. The assessment of laurel forest trees’ response to climate variation by dendrochronological methods is limited because it was assumed that the lack of marked seasonality would prevent the formation of distinct annual tree rings. The aims of this study were to identify the presence of annual growth rings and to assess the dendrochronological potential of the most representative tree species from laurel forests in Tenerife, Canary Islands. We sampled increment cores from 498 trees of 12 species in two well-preserved forests in Tenerife Island. We evaluated tree-ring boundary distinctness, dating potential, and sensitivity of tree-ring growth to climate and, particularly, to drought occurrence. Eight species showed clear tree-ring boundaries, but synchronic annual tree rings and robust tree-ring chronologies were only obtained for Laurus novocanariensis, Ilex perado subsp. platyphylla, Persea indica and Picconia excelsa, a third of the studied species. Tree-ring width depended on water balance and drought occurrence, showing sharp reductions in growth in the face of decreased water availability, a response that was consistent among species and sites. Inter-annual tree-ring width variation was directly dependent on rainfall input in the humid period, from previous October to current April. The four negative pointer years 1995, 1999, 2008 and 2012 corresponded to severe drought events in the study area. This study gives the first assessment of dendrochronological potential and tree-ring climate sensitivity of tree species from the Tenerife laurel forest, which opens new research avenues for dendroecological studies in Macaronesian laurel forests.
Materias Unesco
3106 Ciencia Forestal
Palabras Clave
Climate extremes
Extremos climáticos
Forests
Bosques
Drought
Sequía
Macaronesia
ISSN
1125-7865
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (projects PID2019-109906RA-I00, PID2020-118444GA-100 and PID2019-106908RA-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (predoctoral contract PRE2018-084106)
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (project CGL2017-87309-P and postdoctoral grant IJC2019-040571-I)
Junta de Castilla y León (projects VA113G19 and IR2020-1-UVA08)
Universidad de Valladolid (predoctoral contract 113-2019PREUVA22)
Comunidad de Madrid (project S2018/EMT-4338)
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (predoctoral contract PRE2018-084106)
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (project CGL2017-87309-P and postdoctoral grant IJC2019-040571-I)
Junta de Castilla y León (projects VA113G19 and IR2020-1-UVA08)
Universidad de Valladolid (predoctoral contract 113-2019PREUVA22)
Comunidad de Madrid (project S2018/EMT-4338)
Propietario de los Derechos
© 2022 The Authors
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
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Derechos
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