Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

  • Roberto L. Salomón,
  • Richard L. Peters,
  • Roman Zweifel,
  • Ute G. W. Sass-Klaassen,
  • Annemiek I. Stegehuis,
  • Marko Smiljanic,
  • Rafael Poyatos,
  • Flurin Babst,
  • Emil Cienciala,
  • Patrick Fonti,
  • Bas J. W. Lerink,
  • Marcus Lindner,
  • Jordi Martinez-Vilalta,
  • Maurizio Mencuccini,
  • Gert-Jan Nabuurs,
  • Ernst van der Maaten,
  • Georg von Arx,
  • Andreas Bär,
  • Linar Akhmetzyanov,
  • Daniel Balanzategui,
  • Michal Bellan,
  • Jörg Bendix,
  • Daniel Berveiller,
  • Miroslav Blaženec,
  • Vojtěch Čada,
  • Vinicio Carraro,
  • Sébastien Cecchini,
  • Tommy Chan,
  • Marco Conedera,
  • Nicolas Delpierre,
  • Sylvain Delzon,
  • Ľubica Ditmarová,
  • Jiri Dolezal,
  • Eric Dufrêne,
  • Johannes Edvardsson,
  • Stefan Ehekircher,
  • Alicia Forner,
  • Jan Frouz,
  • Andrea Ganthaler,
  • Vladimír Gryc,
  • Aylin Güney,
  • Ingo Heinrich,
  • Rainer Hentschel,
  • Pavel Janda,
  • Marek Ježík,
  • Hans-Peter Kahle,
  • Simon Knüsel,
  • Jan Krejza,
  • Łukasz Kuberski,
  • Jiří Kučera,
  • François Lebourgeois,
  • Martin Mikoláš,
  • Radim Matula,
  • Stefan Mayr,
  • Walter Oberhuber,
  • Nikolaus Obojes,
  • Bruce Osborne,
  • Teemu Paljakka,
  • Roman Plichta,
  • Inken Rabbel,
  • Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber,
  • Yann Salmon,
  • Matthew Saunders,
  • Tobias Scharnweber,
  • Zuzana Sitková,
  • Dominik Florian Stangler,
  • Krzysztof Stereńczak,
  • Marko Stojanović,
  • Katarína Střelcová,
  • Jan Světlík,
  • Miroslav Svoboda,
  • Brian Tobin,
  • Volodymyr Trotsiuk,
  • Josef Urban,
  • Fernando Valladares,
  • Hanuš Vavrčík,
  • Monika Vejpustková,
  • Lorenz Walthert,
  • Martin Wilmking,
  • Ewa Zin,
  • Junliang Zou,
  • Kathy Steppe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27579-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Forest dynamics are monitored at large scales with remote sensing, but individual tree data are necessary for ground-truthing and mechanistic insights. This study on high temporal resolution dendrometer data across Europe reveals that the 2018 heatwave affected tree physiology and growth in unexpected way.