2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107874
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Simultaneous growth releases and reductions among Populus alba as an indicator for floods in dry mountains (Morocco)

Abstract: We studied the growth reaction of silver poplar trees (Populus alba) to a large flood in November 2014 in the semi-arid High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. The flood resulted in half of the studied trees developing wider tree rings in 2015 and the other half developing narrower rings in 2015, next year after the flood. For 57.1% of trees which released growth in 2015, this was the most significant increase of ring width during their whole lives (in whole tree-ring chronologies), and for 23.8% of trees which reduced… Show more

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“…Confirming these insights, it is noticeable that 2001 was the driest year for most stations, while 2014-2015 had the strongest floods. These findings align with the outcomes of previous studies[51,70,71].…”
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confidence: 93%
“…Confirming these insights, it is noticeable that 2001 was the driest year for most stations, while 2014-2015 had the strongest floods. These findings align with the outcomes of previous studies[51,70,71].…”
supporting
confidence: 93%
“…In pure and A. pinsapo-C. atlantica mixed forests, the competition reduced its growth. In the semi-arid High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Malik et al (2021) investigated how the growth of silver poplar trees (Populus alba L.) responded to a significant flood event in 2014. In 2015, the year following the flood, half of the trees in the study area had wider tree rings, while the other half had narrower rings.…”
Section: Moroccomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These indicators were analyzed using the LRM software (List Ring Measurement;Holmes, 1999), which identifies the significant years in growth change according to their representativeness in groups of trees. In the most recent study carried out in the Flamisell subcatchment, where the trees were young, this analysis was complemented with a study of growth changes according to the proposal put forward by Nowacki & Abrams (1997) and previously used in Dendrogeomorphology (for example in Sorg, et al, 2010 andMalik, et al, 2021). The percentage change in the growth of each tree from the date of the possible event (GC) was determined using the growth mean of 2 years before (M1) and the growth mean of 2 years after (M2), according to the formula: %GC=(M2-M1)/M1•100 considering the threshold for recognizing the change in each tree to be ≥25%.…”
Section: Dendrogeomorphological Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%