{"title":"Topographic and climatic effects on Pinus halepensis s.l. growth at its drought tolerance margins under climatic change","authors":"D. Sarris, D. Christodoulakis","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01755-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01755-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141337783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promotion of biomass, photosynthesis, and root growth of seedling biomass, photosynthesis, and root growth of Populus davidiana × P. bolleana by two species of ectomycorrhizal fungi","authors":"Tianze Zhang, Fanjun Meng, D. Yin","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01756-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01756-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141349750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanxue Liang, Leibo Che, Wenyang Si, Na Liu, Zhitao Wu, Ziqiang Du, Jianwei Shi, Tianjie Lei, Bin Sun, Shaowei Jiang
{"title":"Temporal heterogeneity in climatic responses of four tree species in the Altai Mountains, northwest China","authors":"Hanxue Liang, Leibo Che, Wenyang Si, Na Liu, Zhitao Wu, Ziqiang Du, Jianwei Shi, Tianjie Lei, Bin Sun, Shaowei Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01750-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01750-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141370472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hongwei Zhou, Chaoqun Gong, Xiaodong Li, Yue Wang, Yunbo Yan
{"title":"Analysis of the spatiotemporal trends and influencing factors of Hyphantria cunea in China","authors":"Hongwei Zhou, Chaoqun Gong, Xiaodong Li, Yue Wang, Yunbo Yan","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01732-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01732-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141368238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impacts of forest plantation programs on sectoral CO2 emissions regionally in New Zealand","authors":"Saeed Solaymani, Andrew Dunningham","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01748-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01748-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Investing in projects that support environmental benefits, such as tree harvesting, has the potential to reduce air pollution levels in the atmosphere in the future. However, this kind of investment may increase the current level of emissions. Therefore, it is necessary to estimate how much the policy affects the current level of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. This makes sure the policy doesn’t increase the level of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. This study aims to analyze the effect of the One Billion Trees program on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in New Zealand by employing the 2020 input–output table analysis. This investigation examines the direct and indirect effects of policy on both the demand and supply sides across six regions of New Zealand. The results of this study for the first year of plantation suggest that the policy increases the level of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in all regions, especially in the Waikato region. The direct and indirect impact of the policy leads to 64 kt of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions on the demand side and 270 kt of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions on the supply side. These lead to 0.19 and 0.74% of total CO<sub>2</sub> emissions being attributed to investment shocks. Continuing the policy is recommended, as it has a low effect on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions. However, it is crucial to prioritize the use of low-carbon machinery that uses fossil fuels during the plantation process.</p>","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141253720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changes in climatic conditions drive variations in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi diversity and composition in semi-arid oak forests","authors":"Nahid Jafarian, Javad Mirzaei, Reza Omidipour, Yahya Kooch","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01744-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01744-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a vital role in plant productivity and ecosystem functions. However, their responses to abiotic factors (i.e., climate, physiography, and soil properties) are unknown, especially across climatic gradients and slope aspects in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. In this study, using 60 composite soil samples, direct and indirect effects of climate factors and slope aspects on AMF diversity, composition and spore density were studied. The findings indicate that climate has a more direct influence on soil properties (<i>P</i> < 0.001) in comparison to slope aspect (<i>P</i> = 0.449). In contrast, climate significantly affected AMF diversity and composition, with the highest diversity in dryer areas. Soil pH had the highest correlation with different facets of AMF diversity. Structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that only a small part of the variation in AMF diversity and spore density could be explained by climate characteristics, slope aspect and soil properties. Based on SEM results, climate was the most important determinant of AMF diversity and spore density; slope aspect had a less critical role. The outputs suggest that variations in AMF diversity are derived by the direct effects of climate and the indirect effect of soil chemical properties. In addition, with increasing dryness, sporulation and AMF diversity increased.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Graphical Abstract</h3>\u0000","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141192258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconstruction of drought at the desert margin in northern China over the past 279 years using tree-ring widths","authors":"Yuxin Liu, Heli Zhang, Feng Chen, Martín Hadad, Fidel Roig, Xiaoen Zhao, Shijie Wang, Weipeng Yue, Youping Chen","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01741-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01741-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Unstable environments intensify the frequency of extreme disasters. Long-term climate changes can lead to agricultural and ecological degradation that threatens population sustainability. To better understand past climatic events and consequences, here we present a reconstruction of the self-calibrating Palmer drought severity index (scPDSI) from September to August for the desert margins of northern China, dating back to 1742. The reconstruction accounts for 42.9% of the variation of meteorological data between 1951 and 2020. Our spatial correlation analyses showed significant correlations between scPDSI, runoff, and precipitation. Over the past 279 years, the study area has undergone nine dry and eight wet periods, with the most severe climate extremes between the 1850s and 1890s. This period of prolonged drought in northeastern China coincided with the combined impacts of climatic factors and human influences, contributing to the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Analysis of periodicity and anomalies in sea surface temperatures indicate a strong association between wet and dry cycles and El Niño-Southern Oscillations. Our findings offer insights into long-term dry and wet fluctuations at the desert margins in northern China and elucidate the relationship between drought and the dynamics of civilizations. They also highlight the potential impact of extremes in climate on modern society, especially under the four projected shared socioeconomic pathways climatic scenarios, which predict worsening droughts in northern China.</p>","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141192004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrey A. Grigoriev, Vladimir S. Mikryukov, Yulia V. Shalaumova, Pavel A. Moiseev, Sergey O. Vuykhin, Jesús J. Camarero
{"title":"Struggle zone: alpine shrubs are limited in the Southern Urals by an advancing treeline and insufficient snow depth","authors":"Andrey A. Grigoriev, Vladimir S. Mikryukov, Yulia V. Shalaumova, Pavel A. Moiseev, Sergey O. Vuykhin, Jesús J. Camarero","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01745-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01745-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In recent decades, the rapid climate warming in polar and alpine regions has been accompanied by an expansion of shrub vegetation. However, little is known about how changes in shrub distribution will change as the distribution of tree species and snow cover changes as temperatures rise. In this work, we analyzed the main environmental factors influencing the distribution and structure of <i>Juniperus sibirica</i>, the most common shrub species in the Southern Ural Mountains. Using mapping and digital elevation models, we demonstrated that <i>J. sibirica</i> forms a well-defined vegetation belt mainly between 1100 and 1400 m a.s.l. Within this zone, the abundance and cover of <i>J. sibirica</i> are influenced by factors such as rockiness, slope steepness, water regime and tree (<i>Picea obovata</i>) cover. An analysis of data spanning the past 9 years revealed an upward shift in the distribution of <i>J. sibirica</i> with a decrease in its area. The primary limiting factors for the distribution of <i>J. sibirica</i> were the removal of snow cover by strong winter winds and competition with trees. As a consequence of climatic changes, the tree line and forest limit have shifted upward, further restricting the distribution of <i>J. sibirica</i> to higher elevations where competition for light with trees is reduced and snow cover is sufficiently deep.</p>","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141195310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jiani Hua, Jiangbao Zhang, Baohan Song, Tianyi Wang, Jingji Li, Nan Yang, Lingfeng Mao
{"title":"Diverse responses of fungal functional groups to desertification in forest soils of Pinus densata on the Chinese Tibetan plateau","authors":"Jiani Hua, Jiangbao Zhang, Baohan Song, Tianyi Wang, Jingji Li, Nan Yang, Lingfeng Mao","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01751-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01751-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rapid increase in desertification is an environmental concern, especially for the health and sustainability of ecosystems in changing climates. How ecosystems respond to such changes may be partially understood by studying interactions and performance of critically important groups such as soil fungi functional groups. This study investigated variations in diversities of three soil fungi functional guilds (saprotrophic, symbiotic, pathogenic) and influencing abiotic factors in a <i>Pinus densata</i> forest on the southeast Tibetan Plateau where desertification is intense. The results indicate desertification significantly decreased the proportion of dominant fungal guild-symbiotic fungi (mean relative abundance decreasing from 97.0% to 68.3%), in contrast to saprotrophic fungi (increasing from 2.7% to 25.7%) and pathogenic (from 0.3% to 5.9%). Soil pH had the most significant impact on fungal community structure and negatively correlated with symbiotic fungal richness, which was significantly lower in arid soils, and positively correlated with saprotrophic and pathogenic fungal alpha-diversity, which were abundant. Different community structures and regulators of the three fungi communities were observed, with pH, total phosphorus and ammonium (NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup>) as the main determinants. This study links the biotic and abiotic components during desertification and the interactions between them, and may be used as indicators of ecosystem health and for amendments to mitigate the effects of a changing climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Goran Češljar, Nevena Čule, Ilija Đorđević, Saša Eremija, Natalija Momirović, Marko Tomić, Filip Jovanović
{"title":"Can the desiccation of forests in Tara National Park (Serbia) be attributed to the effects of a drought period?","authors":"Goran Češljar, Nevena Čule, Ilija Đorđević, Saša Eremija, Natalija Momirović, Marko Tomić, Filip Jovanović","doi":"10.1007/s11676-024-01749-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-024-01749-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Forest ecosystems within national parks are threatened by various biotic and abiotic factors. To determine the causes of the desiccation and death of trees in mixed coniferous and deciduous forests of Tara National Park (TNP), Serbia, we monitored defoliation and mortality of individual trees in permanent experimental plots. Data on the desiccation of a large number of trees were gathered by determining the total volume of dry trees and areas of forests under drying stress. The two sets of data were combined to determine the impact of climatic events, primarily drought periods, on the desiccation of forests. Combining data from the International Co-operative Program on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests) with TNP data helped relate forest desiccation to climate events. Key climate signals were identified by monitoring tree defoliation changes in two permanent experimental plots, and then assessed for their influence on tree desiccation in the entire national park. The standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) was used for a more detailed analysis of the drought period. Despite the lack of climate data for a certain period, the SPEI index revealed a link between climate variables and the defoliation and desiccation of forests. Furthermore, the desiccation of trees was preceded by a long drought period. Although mixed coniferous-deciduous forests are often considered less vulnerable to natural influences, this study suggests that forest ecosystems can become vulnerable regardless of tree species composition due to multi-year droughts. These findings contribute to a better understanding of important clues for predicting possible future desiccation of forests. Continuous monitoring of the state of forests and of more permanent experimental plots in national parks could provide better quality data and timely responses to stressful situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":15830,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Forestry Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}