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Site and age-dependent responses of Picea abies growth to climate variability

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Knowledge about spatiotemporal variability of climate change effect on tree-ring width (TRW) and crown condition is essential to optimize the modelling of future forest ecosystem responses to the changing climate. Geographical differences in the climate–growth relationship are a reflection of the regional climatic conditions mainly. In this study, 175 Picea abies trees from the north-western edge of its geographical distribution in Central Norway were evaluated with respect to geographical and age-dependent differences during the common period of 1950–2015. The results showed that the most significant positive correlations between TRW and the current June temperature were unstable although the temperature increased. The correlations suddenly started to decrease (regardless of the site placement and tree age) at the beginning of the 1990s, but subsequently unexpectedly increased in the 2010s. The superposed epoch analysis revealed longer TRW regeneration of the southern plots (except over-mature trees) after negative pointer years compared to the northern plots. Previous summer temperature and related physiological processes (cone crops, storage of nutrients, etc.) significantly negatively affected P. abies growth in the current year. Additionally, our results showed that the selection of the chronology version (standard or residual) significantly affects the resulting correlations and thus must be carefully considered in dendroclimatological studies. Our main outputs can contribute to better understanding of the climate–growth relationship variability and general prediction of the radial growth.

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The paper was supported by the EEA Grants project “Frameworks and possibilities of forest adaptation measures and strategies connected with climate change” (No. EHP-CZ02-OV-1-019-2014) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of CR within the National Sustainability Program I (NPUI), Grant Number LO1415.

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Fig. S1 Spatial correlations between climate data (temperature upper figures, precipitation lower figures) from CRU database (TS4.0; 63°–66.5°N, 10°–15°E, dry land) and local climate stations for the common 1981–2010 period. The climate stations representing the study area include: (a), (d) Susendal (northern part of the study area); (b), (e) Harran (central part) and (c), (f) Namdal (southern part). Light green dots refer to climate stations, and light blue dots indicate the study plots (TIFF 2753 kb)

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Fig. S2 Superposed epoch analysis of the indexed tree-ring width sub-chronologies relative to calculated negative pointer years. Significant values at p < 0.01 are indicated by full black circle. The 95% confidence interval is shown in grey shading (TIFF 777 kb)

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Čermák, P., Rybníček, M., Žid, T. et al. Site and age-dependent responses of Picea abies growth to climate variability. Eur J Forest Res 138, 445–460 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-019-01182-6

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