Basal area growth trends of Hungarian beech forests in a changing climate

Garamszegi Balázs; Kern Zoltán

Bulletin of Forestry Science / Volume 6 / Issue 1 / Pages 35-44
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Balázs Garamszegi & Zoltán Kern

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Correspondence: Garamszegi Balázs

Postal address: H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A.

e-mail: balazs.garamszegi[at]gmail.com

Abstract

Multidecadal trends of mean basal area increments of beech from three sites and four different stand ages were investigated in Western and Northern Hungary. Regardless location and age, our findings show a slowdown in growth or even significant increment decrease for the past 30-40 years. Although the phenomenon is connected to unfavorable changes of climatic conditions, no clear linear relationship can be detected between the decadal trends of increments and the widely used forest aridity indices.

Keywords: beech, basal area increment, drought, climate, EQ, FAI

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Ellenberg, H. 1988: Vegetation ecology of Central Europe. Cambridge University Press

Führer E. 2010: A fák növekedése és a klíma. Klíma 21-füzetek, 61: 98-107.

Führer, E.; Horváth, L.; Jagodics, A.; Machon, A. and Szabados, I. 2011: Application of new aridity index in Hungarian forestry practice. Időjárás, 115: 205-216.

Führer, E.; Edelényi, M.; Horváth, L.; Jagodics, A.; Jereb, L.; Kern, Z.; Móring, A.; Szabados, I. and Pödör, Z. 2016: Effect of weather conditions on annual and intra-annual basal area increments of a beech stand in Sopron Mountains in Hungary. Időjárás, 120 (2): 127-161.

Garamszegi, B. and Kern, Z. 2014: Climate influence on radial growth of Fagus sylvatica growing near the edge of its distribution in Bükk Mts., Hungary. Dendrobiology, 72: 93-102. DOI: 10.12657/denbio.072.008

Gillner, S.; Rüger, N.; Roloff, A. and Berger, U. 2013: Low relative growth rates predict future mortality of common beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Forest Ecology and Management, 302: 372-378. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.03.032

Grynaeus A.; Horváth E. and Szabados I. 1994: Az évgyűrű mint természetes információhordozó. Erdészeti Lapok 129: 203-205. full text

Horváth A. és Mátyás Cs. 2014: Növedékcsökkenés előrevetítése egy bükk származási kísérlet alapján. Erdészettudományi Közlemények, 4: 91-99. full text

Jump, A.S.; Hunt, J.M. and Peñuelas, J. 2006: Rapid climate change-related growth decline at the southern range edge of Fagus sylvatica. Global Change Biology, 12: 2163-2174. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01250.x

Kázmér, M. and Grynaeus, A. 2003: The Budapest Tree-Ring Laboratory. Association for Tree-Ring Research, Newsletter 1: 5-6.

Mátyás Cs. 2016: Az erdészeti szaporítóanyag megválasztása a klímaváltozás fényében. Erdészeti Lapok, 151: 78-82. full text

Mellert, K.H.; Ewald, J.; Hornstein, D.; Dorado-Liñán, I.; Jantsch, M.; Taeger, S.; Menzel, A. and Kölling, C. 2016: Climatic marginality: a new metric for the susceptibility of tree species to warming exemplified by Fagus sylvatica (L.) and Ellenberg’s quotient. European Journal of Forest Research, 135: 137-152. DOI: 10.1007/s10342-015-0924-9

Piovesan, G.; Biondi, F.; Di Filippo, A.; Alessandrini, A. and Magueri M. 2008: Drought-driven growth reduction in old beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests of the central Apennines, Italy. Global Change Biology, 14: 1265-1281. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01570.x

Szalai, S.; Auer, I.; Hiebl, J.; Milkovich, J.; Radim, T.; Stepanek, P.; Zahradnicek, P.; Bihari, Z.; Lakatos, M.; Szentimrey, T.; Limanowka, D.; Kilar, P.; Cheval, S.; Deak, Gy.; Mihic, D.; Antolovic, I.; Nejedlik, P.; Stastny, P.; Mikulova, K.; Nabyvanets, I.; Skyryk, O. and Krakovskaya, S. 2013: Climate of the Greater Carpathian Region. Final Technical Report. URL

Tegel, W.; Seim, A.; Hakelberg, D.; Hoffmann, S.; Panev, M.; Westphal, T. and Büntgen, U. 2014: A recent growth increase of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at its Mediterranean distribution limit contradicts drought stress. European Journal of Forest Research, 133: 61-71. DOI: 10.1007/s10342-013-0737-7

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Garamszegi, B. & Kern, Z. (2016): Basal area growth trends of Hungarian beech forests in a changing climate. Bulletin of Forestry Science, 6(1): 35-44. (in Hungarian) DOI: 10.17164/EK.2016.004

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Volume 6, Issue 1
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DOI: 10.17164/EK.2016.004

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27 September 2016

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