Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests (original) (raw)

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H.E.C. and C.B.K.R. thank E. Cornu, E. Farré, C. Freyburger, P. Gelhaye and A. Mercanti for fieldwork at the French sites; M. Harroué for sample preparation in the laboratory; B. Longdoz of the forest ecology and ecophysiology (EEF) team of the French national institute for agronomy research (INRA), and the association for the study and monitoring of air pollution in Alsace (ASPA), for the meteorological data. M. Nicolas of the French permanent plot network for the monitoring of forest ecosystems (RENECOFOR) for the meteorological data and the description of the soil profiles. L. Kulmala and J. Guiot for comments on an early version of this manuscript. H.M., T.J. and P.N. thank T. Kalliokoski for the Solböle data. J.G.H. thanks L.H. Zhai for laboratory work and Y. Bergeron for project supervision. H.V. and V.G. thank J. Hacurová and G. Vichrová for laboratory work. H.E.C. was supported by a grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the ‘Investissements d'Avenir’ programme (ANR-11-LABX-0002-01, Lab of Excellence ARBRE). D.F. and P.F. acknowledge the SNF (INTEGRAL-121859 and LOTFOR-150205), and the WSL SwissTree project. J.G.H. was funded by 100 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y421081001). I.S. and A.G. were funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF P19563-B16 and P22280-B16). H.M., T.J. and P.N. were supported by grants from the Academy of Finland (Nos. 250299, 257641 and 265504). P.P., J.G. and K.C. were supported by the Slovenian Research Agency, young researchers' programme and programmes P4-0015 and P4-0107. H.V. and V.G. were supported by the European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic, Project Indicators of trees vitality Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.3.00/20.0265. M.V.B. and A.V.K. were supported by Russian Science Foundation project 14-14-00295. The Canadian boreal forest dataset collected by H.M, C.K, A.D. and S.R. were supported by the CRSNG, the FRQNT, the FCI and the Consortium de Recherche sur la Forêt Boréale Commerciale. S.R. was also supported by the CAS President's International Fellowship Initiative (GRANT No. 2015VBB032). The dataset on xylem phenology was generated by the GLOBOXYLO initiative (http://www6.nancy.inra.fr/foret-bois-lerfob_eng/Projects/Current/GLOBOXYLO), which was developed in the framework of the FPS COST Action STReESS (FP1106).

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  1. INRA, UMR 1092 LERFOB, Champenoux, F-54280, France
    Henri E. Cuny, Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber & Meriem Fournier
  2. AgroParisTech, UMR 1092 LERFOB, Nancy, F-54000, France
    Henri E. Cuny, Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber & Meriem Fournier
  3. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, CH-8903, Switzerland
    Henri E. Cuny, David Frank & Patrick Fonti
  4. Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland
    David Frank
  5. Natural Resources Institute Finland, PO Box 18, Vantaa, 01301, Finland
    Harri Mäkinen, Tuula Jyske & Pekka Nöjd
  6. Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vecna pot 2, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia
    Peter Prislan & Jožica Gričar
  7. Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, G7H 2B1, QC, Canada
    Sergio Rossi, Annie Deslauriers, Hubert Morin & Cornelia Krause
  8. Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China
    Sergio Rossi & Jian-Guo Huang
  9. Department of Geography and Regional Planning, Environmental Science Institute (IUCA), University of Zaragoza, C/Pedro Cerbuna 12, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
    Edurne Martinez del Castillo & Martin De Luis
  10. Department of Life Sciences, Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, Coimbra, 3000–456, Portugal
    Filipe Campelo, Joana Vieira & Cristina Nabais
  11. Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, Brno, 613 00, Czech Republic
    Hanuš Vavrčík & Vladimír Gryc
  12. Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC), Avda. Montañana 1005, Zaragoza, 50192, Spain
    Jesus Julio Camarero
  13. V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
    Marina V. Bryukhanova & Alexander V. Kirdyanov
  14. Siberian Federal University, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
    Marina V. Bryukhanova & Alexander V. Kirdyanov
  15. Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia
    Katarina Čufar
  16. University of Innsbruck, Institute of Botany, Sternwartestrasse 15, Innsbruck, 6020, Austria
    Walter Oberhuber, Irene Swidrak & Andreas Gruber
  17. Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, CZ-12843, Czech Republic
    Vaclav Treml
  18. Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes and Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
    Xiaoxia Li & Eryuan Liang
  19. Department of Geography, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
    Gregory King

Authors

  1. Henri E. Cuny
  2. Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber
  3. David Frank
  4. Patrick Fonti
  5. Harri Mäkinen
  6. Peter Prislan
  7. Sergio Rossi
  8. Edurne Martinez del Castillo
  9. Filipe Campelo
  10. Hanuš Vavrčík
  11. Jesus Julio Camarero
  12. Marina V. Bryukhanova
  13. Tuula Jyske
  14. Jožica Gričar
  15. Vladimír Gryc
  16. Martin De Luis
  17. Joana Vieira
  18. Katarina Čufar
  19. Alexander V. Kirdyanov
  20. Walter Oberhuber
  21. Vaclav Treml
  22. Jian-Guo Huang
  23. Xiaoxia Li
  24. Irene Swidrak
  25. Annie Deslauriers
  26. Eryuan Liang
  27. Pekka Nöjd
  28. Andreas Gruber
  29. Cristina Nabais
  30. Hubert Morin
  31. Cornelia Krause
  32. Gregory King
  33. Meriem Fournier

Contributions

C.B.K.R. conceived the French experimental device and compiled the Northern Hemisphere dataset on xylem phenology. H.E.C. created the data for the French sites, performed the research and analysed the data with the help of C.B.K.R. H.E.C. wrote the manuscript and prepared the figures, with the assistance of C.B.K.R., D.F., P.F. and M.F. All the authors contributed with xylem phenology data and discussed the manuscript.

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Cuny, H., Rathgeber, C., Frank, D. et al. Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests.Nature Plants 1, 15160 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.160

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