Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth

  • Isabel Dorado-Liñán,
  • Blanca Ayarzagüena,
  • Flurin Babst,
  • Guobao Xu,
  • Luis Gil,
  • Giovanna Battipaglia,
  • Allan Buras,
  • Vojtěch Čada,
  • J. Julio Camarero,
  • Liam Cavin,
  • Hugues Claessens,
  • Igor Drobyshev,
  • Balázs Garamszegi,
  • Michael Grabner,
  • Andrew Hacket-Pain,
  • Claudia Hartl,
  • Andrea Hevia,
  • Pavel Janda,
  • Alistair S. Jump,
  • Marko Kazimirovic,
  • Srdjan Keren,
  • Juergen Kreyling,
  • Alexander Land,
  • Nicolas Latte,
  • Tom Levanič,
  • Ernst van der Maaten,
  • Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen,
  • Elisabet Martínez-Sancho,
  • Annette Menzel,
  • Martin Mikoláš,
  • Renzo Motta,
  • Lena Muffler,
  • Paola Nola,
  • Momchil Panayotov,
  • Any Mary Petritan,
  • Ion Catalin Petritan,
  • Ionel Popa,
  • Peter Prislan,
  • Catalin-Constantin Roibu,
  • Miloš Rydval,
  • Raul Sánchez-Salguero,
  • Tobias Scharnweber,
  • Branko Stajić,
  • Miroslav Svoboda,
  • Willy Tegel,
  • Marius Teodosiu,
  • Elvin Toromani,
  • Volodymyr Trotsiuk,
  • Daniel-Ond Turcu,
  • Robert Weigel,
  • Martin Wilmking,
  • Christian Zang,
  • Tzvetan Zlatanov,
  • Valerie Trouet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29615-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Here the authors show that extremes in the summer jet stream position over Europe create a beech forest productivity dipole between northwestern and southeastern Europe and can result in regional anomalies in forest carbon uptake and growth.