Overview of the applied methods in the research of the impact of environmental factors on tree growth

Manninger Miklós; Edelényi Márton; Pödör Zoltán; Jereb László

Bulletin of Forestry Science / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / Pages 59-70
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Miklós Manninger, Márton Edelényi, Zoltán Pödör & László Jereb

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Correspondence: Manninger Miklós

Postal address: H-1027 Budapest Frankel Leó u. 1.

e-mail: manningerm[at]erti.hu

Abstract

Investigation of tree growth is one of the main issues in forest research. The climate change studies provide further motivation to examine relationship between tree growth and environmental factors. The review of selected articles published in the last decades in Hungary and Europe summarizes the data (geographical distribution, tree species, meteorological parameters, different growth data) used in the evaluations and the applied mathematical and statistical procedures.

Keywords: tree growth, climatic factors, methods of measurements and evaluation

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7.	Carrer, M. and Urbinati, C. 2001: Assessing climate-growth relationships: a comparative study between linear and non-linear methods. Dendrochronologia 19 (1): 57–65.
8.	Čufar, K.; Prislan, P.; de Luis, M. and Gričar, K. 2008: Tree-ring variation, wood formation and phenology of beech (Fagus sylvatica) from a representative site in Slovenia, SE Central Europe. Trees 22: 749–758. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-008-0235-6
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11.	Gutiérrez, E.; Campelo, F.; Camarero, J.J.; Ribas, M.; Muntán, E.; Nabais, C. and Freitas, H. 2011: Climate controls act at different scales on the seasonal pattern of Quercus ilex L. stem radial increments in NE Spain. Trees, 25(4): 637–646. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-011-0540-3
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13.	Lebourgeois, F.; Bréda, N.; Ulrich, E. and Granier, A. 2005: Climate-tree-growth relationships of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in the French Permanent Plot Network (RENECOFOR). Trees 19: 385–401. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-004-0397-9
14.	Mäkinen, H.; Nöjd, P. and Mielikäinen, K. 2000: Climatic signal annual growth variation of Norway spruce (Picea abies) along a transect from central Finland to the Arctic timberline. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30: 769–777. DOI: 10.1139/x00-005
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16.	Mäkinen, H.; Nöjd, P.; Kahle, H. P.; Neumann, U.; Tveite, B.; Mielikäinen, K.; Röhle, H. and Spiecker, H. 2003: Large-scale climatic variability and radial increment variation of Picea abies (L.) Karst. in central and northern Europe. Trees 17: 173–184. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-002-0220-4
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18.	Manninger M. 2008: A növekedés és a csapadék összefüggései az alföldi mérések alapján, In: Szulcsán G. (ed.) Kutatói nap, tudományos eredmények a gyakorlatban, Alföldi Erdőkért Egyesület kiadványa, Szeged, 50–53.
19.	Martín-Benito, D.; Cherubini, P.; del Río, M. and Canellas, I. 2008: Growth response to climate and drought in Pinus nigra Arn. trees of different crown classes. Trees 22: 363–373. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-007-0191-6
20.	Maxime, C. and Hendrik, D. 2011: Effects of climate on diameter growth of co-occurring Fagus sylvatica and Abies alba along an altitudinal gradient. Trees 25: 265–276. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-010-0503-0
21.	Mátyás, Cs.; Berki, I.; Czúcz, B.; Gálos, B.; Móricz, N. and Rasztovits, E. 2010: Future of Beech in Southeast Europe from the Perspective of Evolutionary Ecology. Acta Silvatica & Lignaria Hungarica 6: 91–110 full text
22.	Monty, A.; Lejeune, P. and Rondeux, J. 2008: Individual distance-independent girth increment model for Douglas-fir in southern Belgium. Ecological modelling 212: 472–479. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.10.041
23.	Nagy L. 2009: Éghajlati alkalmazkodóképesség és válaszreakció előrejelzése erdeifenyő (Pinus sylvestris L.) populációkon. PhD értekezés (NYME EMK ) full text
24.	Novák, J.; Slodicák, M.; Kacálek, D. and Dusek, D. 2010: The effect of different stand density on diameter growth response in Scots pine stands in relation to climate situations. Journal of Forest Science 56 (10): 461–473.
25.	Oberhuber, W.; Kofler, W.; Pfeifer, K.; Seeber, A.; Gruber, A. and Wieser, G. 2008: Long-term changes in tree-ring–climate relationships at Mt. Patscherkofel (Tyrol, Austria) since the mid-1980s. Trees 22: 31–40. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-007-0166-7
26.	Pärn, H. 2003: Radial growth response of Scots pine to climate under dust pollution in Northeast Estonia. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 144: 343–361. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022969301545
27.	Pichler, P. and Oberhuber, W. 2007: Radial growth response of coniferous forest trees in an inner Alpine environment to heat-wave in 2003. Forest Ecology and Management 242: 688–699. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.02.007
28.	Piovesan, G.; Biondi, F.; Bernabei, M.; Di Filippo, A. and Schirone, B. 2005: Spatial and altitudinal bioclimatic zones of the Italian peninsula identified from a beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) tree-ring network. Acta Oecologica 27: 197–210. DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2005.01.001
29.	Rybnícek, M.; Cermák, P.; Kolár, T.; Premyslovská, E. and Zid, T. 2009: Influence of temperatures and precipitation on radial increment of Orlické hory Mts. spruce stands at altitudes over 800 m a.s.l. Journal of Forest Science 55 (6): 257–263
30.	Savva, Y.; Oleksyn, J.; Reich B. P.; Tjoelker G. M.; Vaganov A. E. and Modrzynski, J. 2006: Interannual growth response of Norway spruce to climate along an altitudinal gradient in the Tatra Mountains, Poland. Trees 20. Springer-Verlag, 735–746. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-006-0088-9
31.	Somogyi Z. 2008: Recent Trends of Tree Growth in Relation to Climate Change in Hungary. Acta Silvatica & Lignaria Hungarica 4: 17–28 full text
32.	Szabados I. 2002: Az évgyűrűszélesség és egyes termőhelyi tényezők kapcsolata. PhD értekezés (NYME EMK) full text
33.	Szabados I. 2007: Időjárási fluktuáció hatása a produkcióra dendrokronológiai kutatások alapján. In: Mátyás Cs., Vig P. (ed.): Erdő és Klíma V., Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem, Sopron, 297–306
34.	Szabados I. 2008: A csapadék hatása a cser évgyűrűméretére. Erdészeti Kutatások 92: 121–128.
35.	Tuovinen, M. 2005: Response of tree-ring width and density of Pinus sylvestris to climate beyond the continuous northern forest line in Finland. Dendrochronologia 22: 83–91. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2005.02.001
36.	van der Werf, G. W.; Sass-Klaassen, G. W. U. and Mohren, G. M. J. 2007: The impact of the 2003 summer drought on the intra-annual growth pattern of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and oak (Quercus robur L.) on a dry site in the Netherlands. Dendrochronologia 25: 103–112. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2007.03.004
37.	Wilczyn´ski, S. and Podlaski, R. 2007: The effect of climate on radial growth of horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) in the Swietokrzyski National Park in central Poland. Journal of Forest Research 12: 24–33. DOI: 10.1007/s10310-006-0246-3

Biondi, F. and Waikul, K. 2004: DENDROCLIM2002: A C++ program for statistical calibration of climate signals in tree-ring chronologies. Computers & Geosciences 30: 303–311. DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2003.11.004

Bogino, S.; Nieto, M. J. F. and Bravo, F. 2009: Climate Effect on Radial Growth of Pinus sylvestris at Its Southern and Western Distribution Limits. Silva Fennica 43(4): 609–623. DOI: 10.14214/sf.183

Bouriaud, O.; Leban, J.M.; Bert, D. and Deleuze, C. 2005: Intra-annual variations in climate influence growth and wood density of Norway spruce. Tree Physiology 25: 651–660. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/25.6.651

Briffa, K. R.; Osborn, J. T.; Schweingruber, H. F.; Jones, D. P.; Shiyatov, G. S. and Vaganov, A. E. 2002: Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 1, local and regional climate signals. The Holocene 12 (6): 737–757. DOI: 10.1191/0959683602hl587rp

Büntgen, U.; Frank C. D.; Schmidhalter, M.; Neuwirth, B.; Seifert, M. and Esper, J. 2006: Growth/climate response shift in a long subalpine spruce chronology. Trees 20: 99–110. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-005-0017-3

Büntgen, U.; Frank, C. D.; Kaczka, J. R.; Verstege, A.; Zwijacz-Kozica, T. and Esper, J. 2007: Growth responses to climate in a multi-species tree-ring network in the Western Carpathian Tatra Mountains, Poland and Slovakia. Tree Physiology 27: 689–702. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/27.5.689

Carrer, M. and Urbinati, C. 2001: Assessing climate-growth relationships: a comparative study between linear and non-linear methods. Dendrochronologia 19 (1): 57–65.

Čufar, K.; Prislan, P.; de Luis, M. and Gričar, K. 2008: Tree-ring variation, wood formation and phenology of beech (Fagus sylvatica) from a representative site in Slovenia, SE Central Europe. Trees 22: 749–758. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-008-0235-6

Edelényi M.; Pödör Z.; Manninger M. és Jereb L. 2011: Transzformált idősorok elemzésének bemutatása erdészeti adatokon (kézirat)

Feliksik, E. and Wilczyn´ski, S. 2009: The effect of climate on tree-ring chronologies of native and nonnative tree species growing under homogenous site conditions. Geochronometria 33: 49–57. DOI: 10.2478/v10003-009-0006-4

Gutiérrez, E.; Campelo, F.; Camarero, J.J.; Ribas, M.; Muntán, E.; Nabais, C. and Freitas, H. 2011: Climate controls act at different scales on the seasonal pattern of Quercus ilex L. stem radial increments in NE Spain. Trees, 25(4): 637–646. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-011-0540-3

Lebourgeois, F.; Cousseau, G. and Ducos, Y. 2004: Climate-tree-growth relationships of Quercus petraea Mill. stand in the Forest of Bercé ("Futaie des Clos", Sarthe, France). Annals of Forest Science 61: 361–372. DOI: 10.1051/forest:2004029

Lebourgeois, F.; Bréda, N.; Ulrich, E. and Granier, A. 2005: Climate-tree-growth relationships of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in the French Permanent Plot Network (RENECOFOR). Trees 19: 385–401. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-004-0397-9

Mäkinen, H.; Nöjd, P. and Mielikäinen, K. 2000: Climatic signal annual growth variation of Norway spruce (Picea abies) along a transect from central Finland to the Arctic timberline. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30: 769–777. DOI: 10.1139/x00-005

Mäkinen, H.; Nöjd, P.; Kahle, H. P.; Neumann, U.; Tveite, B.; Mielikäinen, K.; Röhle, H. and Spiecker, H. 2002: Radial growth variation of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) across latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in central and northern Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 171: 243–259. DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1127(01)00786-1

Mäkinen, H.; Nöjd, P.; Kahle, H. P.; Neumann, U.; Tveite, B.; Mielikäinen, K.; Röhle, H. and Spiecker, H. 2003: Large-scale climatic variability and radial increment variation of Picea abies (L.) Karst. in central and northern Europe. Trees 17: 173–184. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-002-0220-4

Manninger M. 2004: Erdei fák éves és korszaki növekedésmenete és kapcsolódása egyes ökológiai tényezőkhöz. In: Mátyás Cs., Vig P. (ed.): Erdő és Klíma IV., Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem, Sopron, 151–162.

Manninger M. 2008: A növekedés és a csapadék összefüggései az alföldi mérések alapján, In: Szulcsán G. (ed.) Kutatói nap, tudományos eredmények a gyakorlatban, Alföldi Erdőkért Egyesület kiadványa, Szeged, 50–53.

Martín-Benito, D.; Cherubini, P.; del Río, M. and Canellas, I. 2008: Growth response to climate and drought in Pinus nigra Arn. trees of different crown classes. Trees 22: 363–373. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-007-0191-6

Maxime, C. and Hendrik, D. 2011: Effects of climate on diameter growth of co-occurring Fagus sylvatica and Abies alba along an altitudinal gradient. Trees 25: 265–276. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-010-0503-0

Mátyás, Cs.; Berki, I.; Czúcz, B.; Gálos, B.; Móricz, N. and Rasztovits, E. 2010: Future of Beech in Southeast Europe from the Perspective of Evolutionary Ecology. Acta Silvatica & Lignaria Hungarica 6: 91–110 full text

Monty, A.; Lejeune, P. and Rondeux, J. 2008: Individual distance-independent girth increment model for Douglas-fir in southern Belgium. Ecological modelling 212: 472–479. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.10.041

Nagy L. 2009: Éghajlati alkalmazkodóképesség és válaszreakció előrejelzése erdeifenyő (Pinus sylvestris L.) populációkon. PhD értekezés (NYME EMK ) full text

Novák, J.; Slodicák, M.; Kacálek, D. and Dusek, D. 2010: The effect of different stand density on diameter growth response in Scots pine stands in relation to climate situations. Journal of Forest Science 56 (10): 461–473.

Oberhuber, W.; Kofler, W.; Pfeifer, K.; Seeber, A.; Gruber, A. and Wieser, G. 2008: Long-term changes in tree-ring–climate relationships at Mt. Patscherkofel (Tyrol, Austria) since the mid-1980s. Trees 22: 31–40. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-007-0166-7

Pärn, H. 2003: Radial growth response of Scots pine to climate under dust pollution in Northeast Estonia. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 144: 343–361. DOI: 10.1023/A:1022969301545

Pichler, P. and Oberhuber, W. 2007: Radial growth response of coniferous forest trees in an inner Alpine environment to heat-wave in 2003. Forest Ecology and Management 242: 688–699. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.02.007

Piovesan, G.; Biondi, F.; Bernabei, M.; Di Filippo, A. and Schirone, B. 2005: Spatial and altitudinal bioclimatic zones of the Italian peninsula identified from a beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) tree-ring network. Acta Oecologica 27: 197–210. DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2005.01.001

Rybnícek, M.; Cermák, P.; Kolár, T.; Premyslovská, E. and Zid, T. 2009: Influence of temperatures and precipitation on radial increment of Orlické hory Mts. spruce stands at altitudes over 800 m a.s.l. Journal of Forest Science 55 (6): 257–263

Savva, Y.; Oleksyn, J.; Reich B. P.; Tjoelker G. M.; Vaganov A. E. and Modrzynski, J. 2006: Interannual growth response of Norway spruce to climate along an altitudinal gradient in the Tatra Mountains, Poland. Trees 20. Springer-Verlag, 735–746. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-006-0088-9

Somogyi Z. 2008: Recent Trends of Tree Growth in Relation to Climate Change in Hungary. Acta Silvatica & Lignaria Hungarica 4: 17–28 full text

Szabados I. 2002: Az évgyűrűszélesség és egyes termőhelyi tényezők kapcsolata. PhD értekezés (NYME EMK) full text

Szabados I. 2007: Időjárási fluktuáció hatása a produkcióra dendrokronológiai kutatások alapján. In: Mátyás Cs., Vig P. (ed.): Erdő és Klíma V., Nyugat-magyarországi Egyetem, Sopron, 297–306

Szabados I. 2008: A csapadék hatása a cser évgyűrűméretére. Erdészeti Kutatások 92: 121–128.

Tuovinen, M. 2005: Response of tree-ring width and density of Pinus sylvestris to climate beyond the continuous northern forest line in Finland. Dendrochronologia 22: 83–91. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2005.02.001

van der Werf, G. W.; Sass-Klaassen, G. W. U. and Mohren, G. M. J. 2007: The impact of the 2003 summer drought on the intra-annual growth pattern of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and oak (Quercus robur L.) on a dry site in the Netherlands. Dendrochronologia 25: 103–112. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2007.03.004

Wilczyn´ski, S. and Podlaski, R. 2007: The effect of climate on radial growth of horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) in the Swietokrzyski National Park in central Poland. Journal of Forest Research 12: 24–33. DOI: 10.1007/s10310-006-0246-3

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