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Daily growth of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) on moist sites is affected by short-term drought rather than ozone uptake

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Daily stem growth was reduced by drought with high significance, but not affected by ozone uptake or drought–ozone interaction. Increasing air temperature showed capacity of compensating negative drought effects.

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Future increases in stress on forest trees due to rising ozone deposition and/or exacerbating drought are one of many contemporary climate change concerns. European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is known to be sensitive to both stressors. To date, there is limited evidence concerning the impact of ozone uptake, or its combined effect with drought, on the growth of forest trees. This study emanated from the hypothesis that high daily ozone influx potentially limits daily radial stem increment. A secondary hypothesis intimated that not only prolonged, but also short-term water limitation has the capacity for reducing intra-annual growth performance. To address these hypotheses, the concerted impacts of drought and O3 on radial stem growth were analyzed as components of multi-factorial field scenarios comprising gradients in altitude, temperature, precipitation and ozone exposure. Linear mixed models, adjusting for meteorological factors and nutrition, were fit to daily growth measurements in nine beech forest sites across Bavaria/Germany during three consecutive growing seasons. During individual years, daily ozone influx did not statistically significantly limit daily stem growth. However, short-term drought was associated with statistically significant, but minor and reversible limitations of intra-annual radial stem growth. Distinctive levels of plant-available soil water and soil water potential limited growth. Increases in air temperature were conducive to beech stem growth across the study region, apparently offering the capacity for buffering drought impact on the stem growth of beech.

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Acknowledgments

The database for this study was obtained by the project KLIP15, funded by the Bavarian State Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry and additional support by the TUM Diversity and Talent Management. We thank the Bavarian State Institute of Forestry (LWF), the UN-ECE Monitoring, Bavarian National Park, the Bavarian Environment Agency (LfU), the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) and the Hessian Agency for the Environment and Geology (HLUG) for kindly providing the data. We gratefully acknowledge the support and technical help provided by H.-P. Dietrich, H.-J. Krause, C. Happe, E. Bickel, M. Högl and A. Wörle from the Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, B. Beudert and W. Breit from UN-ECE Monitoring, Bavarian Forest National Park, as well as T. Feuerbach, P. Kuba and J. Heckmair from the Technische Universität München, Section Ecophysiology of Plants. Furthermore, we particularly want to thank W. Weis and K. May for soil–water modeling via BROOK90 LWF, and B. Koopmann for assistance in data characterization.

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  1. Ecophysiology of Plants, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany

    Angelika R. Kühn, Manuela Baumgarten & Rainer Matyssek

  2. Life Science Mathematics Unit, Technische Universität München, Liesel-Beckmann-Straße 2, 85354, Freising, Germany

    Sonja Grill & Donna P. Ankerst

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Kühn, A.R., Grill, S., Baumgarten, M. et al. Daily growth of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) on moist sites is affected by short-term drought rather than ozone uptake. Trees 29, 1501–1519 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-015-1231-2

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