Tree-ring formation as an indicator of forest capacity to adapt to the main threats of environmental changes in Lithuania

Augustaitis, Algirdas; Augustaitienė, Ingrida; Baugarten, Manuela; Bičenkienė, Steigvilė; Girgždienė, Raselė; Kulbokas, Gintaras; Linkevičius, Edgaras; Marozas, Vitas; Mikalajūnas, Marius; Mordas, Genrik; Mozgeris, Gintautas; Petrauskas, Edmundas; Pivoras, Ainis; Šidlauskas, Giedrius; Ulevičius, Vidmantas; Vitas, Adomas; Matyssek, Rainer

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.09.169

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“…In general, the established relationships well, reflected data obtained by A. Augustaitis et al, in 2007Augustaitis et al, in , 2015Augustaitis et al, in , 2018, which also indicated similar regularities in the effect of air temperature on pine BAI formation in mature and over mature pine stands in north eastern part of Lithuania. More significant positive and least significant negative effects of mean temperature of the considered months were detected on tree growth intensity from GG No 3.…”

Section: Effect Of Meteorology On Annual Tree Ring Formation Of Pine supporting

confidence: 80%

“…Only in exceptional cases this relationship reached the level of statistical significance (p<0.05). These obtained results also very well reflected the state of knowledge on pine growth peculiarities both in Lithuania (Augustaitis et al, 2015(Augustaitis et al, , 2018Juknys et al, 2003Juknys et al, , 2014 and Europe (Taeger et al 2013). Notwithstanding this, more abundant precipitation during dormant period, i.e.…”

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“…More abundant precipitation had a negative effect only in September and November, what was also typical not only for pine stem BAI formation in north-eastern part of Lithuania (Augustaitis et al, 2015(Augustaitis et al, , 2018 but also for changes in pine crown condition (Augustaitis et al, 2007, 2010a, 2010b; Augustaitis, 2011). However, precipitation of none of the months of two seasons significantly explained the differences in stem BAI of trees representing different GGs.…”

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Comparative Study of the Significance of Competition Indices and Genotype of Scots Pine Tree Reactions to Changes in Meteorology and Air Pollution

Mikalajūnas

Šidlauskas

Linkevičius

et al. 2018

Proccedings of International Scientific Conference "RURAL DEVELOPMENT 2017"

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Changing climatic conditions, increased length of growing season, competition, genotype and pollution are the most important factors for tree productivity and health. That is why only by knowing the impact of these factors on trees we can evaluate and change sylvicultural treatments that are important for the health and productivity of forest in Lithuania. The aim of the present study was to detect the significance of the competition index vs. genotype of Scots pine trees on their reactions to changes in meteorology and air pollution. Tree health, dendrometric parameters and stem basal area increment were chosen as response variables to meet the objectives of the presented study. The investigation was carried out at Scots pine genetic stand located in Aukstaitija national park, Vaisniunai district. Data on meteorology and air pollutants were obtained from ICP Integrated Monitoring Station located there. Genetically related individual groups in the stand were established by the neutral part of the genome of short repeated DNA sequence length polymorphism markers. Trees of distinctive short repeated sequences allele frequencies were grouped by Bayesian cluster analysis methods. Four genetically similar tree groups were separated in the monitored stand based on significance of ΔK value. Seven competition indices were used to determine the competition intensity effect on the tree increment and their dendrometric parameters including crown condition. The obtained results revealed that trees which demonstrated the most intensive BAI formation, best crown condition and the most significant reaction to changes in meteorology and air pollution comprised one tree genetic group while trees with adverse characteristics the second. Notwithstanding this competition intensity had the most significant effect on BAI formation.

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Comparative Study of the Significance of Competition Indices and Genotype of Scots Pine Tree Reactions to Changes in Meteorology and Air Pollution

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“…However, after 2030, the trajectory of temperature increase was changed for the EU BIOENERGY scenario to hit 2.5 °C by 2100. The same trajectories were followed later by adjusting the diameter, height, and stem volume increment, due to increased temperatures, following Augustaitis et al [15]. On average, the stem volume increment was increased by 39% and 30% for spruce, 21% and 16% for pine, and 4% and 3% for deciduous tree species in 2120, assuming REFERENCE and EU BIOENERGY scenarios, respectively.…”

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“…For hemi-boreal forests in the northeastern part of Europe, positive effects on forest growth and wood production have been reported [2,11]. More specifically, for Lithuania, the increase in air temperature, precipitation amount, and nitrogen deposition during the vegetative period, and reductions in air SO 2 , surface ozone concentrations, and sulphur and heavy metals deposition since the late 1970s have been associated with the rapid increase in the growth-intensity of Norway spruce, moderate increase in the growth-intensity of Scots pine, and minimal growth increase of birch species [12][13][14][15][16]. Increasing disturbance risks may have adverse effects [2,17,18].…”

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Spatial Pattern of Climate Change Effects on Lithuanian Forestry

Mozgeris

Brukas

Pivoriūnas

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Research Highlights: Validating modelling approach which combines global framework conditions in the form of climate and policy scenarios with the use of forest decision support system to assess climate change impacts on the sustainability of forest management. Background and Objectives: Forests and forestry have been confirmed to be sensitive to climate. On the other hand, human efforts to mitigate climate change influence forests and forest management. To facilitate the evaluation of future sustainability of forest management, decision support systems are applied. Our aims are to: (1) Adopt and validate decision support tool to incorporate climate change and its mitigation impacts on forest growth, global timber demands and prices for simulating future trends of forest ecosystem services in Lithuania, (2) determine the magnitude and spatial patterns of climate change effects on Lithuanian forests and forest management in the future, supposing that current forestry practices are continued. Materials and Methods: Upgraded version of Lithuanian forestry simulator Kupolis was used to model the development of all forests in the country until 2120 under management conditions of three climate change scenarios. Selected stand-level forest and forest management characteristics were aggregated to the level of regional branches of the State Forest Enterprise and analyzed for the spatial and temporal patterns of climate change effects. Results: Increased forest growth under a warmer future climate resulted in larger tree dimensions, volumes of growing stock, naturally dying trees, harvested assortments, and also higher profits from forestry activities. Negative impacts were detected for the share of broadleaved tree species in the standing volume and the tree species diversity. Climate change effects resulted in spatially clustered patterns-increasing stand productivity, and amounts of harvested timber were concentrated in the regions with dominating coniferous species, while the same areas were exposed to negative dynamics of biodiversity-related forest attributes. Current forest characteristics explained 70% or more of the variance of climate change effects on key forest and forest management attributes. Conclusions: Using forest decision support systems, climate change scenarios and considering the balance of delivered ecosystem services is suggested as a methodological framework for validating forest management alternatives aiming for more adaptiveness in Lithuanian forestry.

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Physiological response of the bioindicator Ramalina farinacea in relation to atmospheric deposition in an urban environment

Sujetovienė

Sališiūtė

Dagiliūtė

et al. 2020

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Tree-ring formation as an indicator of forest capacity to adapt to the main threats of environmental changes in Lithuania

Cited by 27 publications

References 71 publications

Comparative Study of the Significance of Competition Indices and Genotype of Scots Pine Tree Reactions to Changes in Meteorology and Air Pollution

Comparative Study of the Significance of Competition Indices and Genotype of Scots Pine Tree Reactions to Changes in Meteorology and Air Pollution

Spatial Pattern of Climate Change Effects on Lithuanian Forestry

Physiological response of the bioindicator Ramalina farinacea in relation to atmospheric deposition in an urban environment

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