Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6541358 | Dendrochronologia | 2016 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
The close relationship between growth and climate indicate that climate change strongly controlled the growth patterns. This suggests that harsher climatic conditions, especially increased aridity, affected the tree performance and could have played a significant role in the mortality process. Climate change may have exacerbated or predisposed trees to the impact of other factors (e.g. intense management and pathogens). These observations could suggest a similar future increase in oak mortality which may occur in more northern oak open woodlands if aridity further increases.
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Authors
Fabio Natalini, Reyes Alejano, Javier Vázquez-Piqué, Isabel Cañellas, Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo,