ArticleNature communications2022
The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests.
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Roberto L Salomón *Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2674-1731
Richard L Peters *Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
Roman ZweifelSwiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9438-0582
Ute G W Sass-KlaassenForest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands. ute.sassklaassen@wur.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8479-3209
Annemiek I StegehuisEuropean Forest Institute, Resilience Programme, 53113, Bonn, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7955-5847
Marko SmiljanicDendroGreif, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2324-0723
Rafael PoyatosCREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0521-2523
Flurin BabstSchool of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
Emil CiencialaIFER-Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, 254 01, Jilove u Prahy, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1254-4254
Patrick FontiSwiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7070-3292
Bas J W LerinkWageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3032-8042
Marcus LindnerEuropean Forest Institute, Resilience Programme, 53113, Bonn, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0770-003X
Jordi Martinez-VilaltaCREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2332-7298
Maurizio MencucciniCREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0840-1477
Gert-Jan NabuursForest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9761-074X
Ernst van der MaatenChair of Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, 01737, Tharandt, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5218-6682
Georg von ArxSwiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-4599
Andreas BärDepartment of Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0059-3964
Linar AkhmetzyanovForest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8130-6137
Daniel BalanzateguiClimate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473, Potsdam, Germany.
Michal BellanGlobal Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9602-4629
Jörg BendixLaboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS), Faculty of Geography, 35032, Marburg, Germany.
Daniel BerveillerUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France.
Miroslav BlaženecInstitute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 96053, Zvolen, Slovakia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9743-614X
Vojtěch ČadaDepartment of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3922-2108
Vinicio CarraroDepartment of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Sébastien CecchiniOffice National des Forêts, Département Recherche Développement et Innovation, 77300, Fontainebleau, France.
Tommy ChanInstitute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5700-7209
Marco ConederaSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Insubric Ecosystems Research Group, 6593, Cadenazzo, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3980-2142
Nicolas DelpierreUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0906-9402
Sylvain DelzonUniversite de Bordeaux, INRAE, BIOGECO, 33615, Pessac, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3442-1711
Ľubica DitmarováInstitute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 96053, Zvolen, Slovakia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-1918
Jiri DolezalInstitute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
Eric DufrêneUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France.
Johannes EdvardssonLaboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology, Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5163-1599
Stefan EhekircherInstitute of Biology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
Alicia FornerDepartamento de Ecología, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC), 46113, Moncada, Valencia, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7123-6403
Jan FrouzInstitute for environmental studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic.
Andrea GanthalerDepartment of Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8670-6199
Vladimír GrycDepartment of Wood Science and Technology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9632-9625
Aylin GüneyIzmir Katip Çelebi University, Faculty of Forestry, Çigli, Izmir, Turkey.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8955-2770
Ingo HeinrichClimate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-6999
Rainer HentschelBrandenburg State Forestry Center of Excellence, Eberswalde, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1257-885X
Pavel JandaDepartment of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic.
Marek JežíkInstitute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 96053, Zvolen, Slovakia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0047-2123
Hans-Peter KahleChair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, 79085, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9677-5094
Simon KnüselSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Insubric Ecosystems Research Group, 6593, Cadenazzo, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9985-7650
Jan KrejzaGlobal Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2475-2111
Łukasz KuberskiDepartment of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-9746
Jiří KučeraEnvironmental Measuring Systems Ltd., 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
François LebourgeoisUniversité de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, SILVA, F-54000, Nancy, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2040-6150
Martin MikolášDepartment of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic.
Radim MatulaDepartment of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7460-0100
Stefan MayrUniversité de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, SILVA, F-54000, Nancy, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3319-4396
Walter OberhuberUniversité de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, SILVA, F-54000, Nancy, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5197-7044
Nikolaus ObojesInstitute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6718-2756
Bruce OsborneUCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2208-7285
Teemu PaljakkaInstitute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3674-4904
Roman PlichtaDepartment of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2442-8522
Inken RabbelDepartment for Geography, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2555-2496
Cyrille B K RathgeberSwiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7359-8320
Yann SalmonInstitute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4433-4021
Matthew SaundersTrinity College Dublin, School of Natural Sciences, Botany Department, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1965-8932
Tobias ScharnweberDendroGreif, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-5296
Zuzana SitkováNational Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute, 96001, Zvolen, Slovakia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6354-6105
Dominik Florian StanglerChair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, 79085, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-6834
Krzysztof StereńczakDepartment of Geomatics, Forest Research Institute, 05-090, Raszyn, Poland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9556-0144
Marko StojanovićGlobal Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4918-8668
Katarína StřelcováTechnical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry, 96001, Zvolen, Slovakia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7284-8244
Jan SvětlíkGlobal Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
Miroslav SvobodaDepartment of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic.
Brian TobinUCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6697-3858
Volodymyr TrotsiukSwiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
Josef UrbanDepartment of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1730-947X
Fernando ValladaresNational Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, 28006, Madrid, Spain.
Hanuš VavrčíkDepartment of Wood Science and Technology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9386-9554
Monika VejpustkováForestry and Game Management Research Institute, 252 02, Jíloviště, Czech Republic.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6645-7674
Lorenz WalthertSwiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1790-8563
Martin WilmkingDendroGreif, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4964-2402
Ewa ZinDepartment of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland.
Junliang ZouBeijing Research & Development Centre for Grass and Environment, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, 100097, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9635-0686
Kathy SteppeLaboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium. kathy.steppe@UGent.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6252-0704
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Austrian Science Fund FWF P 22280Austrian Science Fund FWF P 25643Austrian Science Fund FWF P 29896
Abstract
Heatwaves exert disproportionately strong and sometimes irreversible impacts on forest ecosystems. These impacts remain poorly understood at the tree and species level and across large spatial scales. Here, we investigate the effects of the record-breaking 2018 European heatwave on tree growth and tree water status using a collection of high-temporal resolution dendrometer data from 21 species across 53 sites. Relative to the two preceding years, annual stem growth was not consistently reduced by the 2018 heatwave but stems experienced twice the temporary shrinkage due to depletion of water reserves. Conifer species were less capable of rehydrating overnight than broadleaves across gradients of soil and atmospheric drought, suggesting less resilience toward transient stress. In particular, Norway spruce and Scots pine experienced extensive stem dehydration. Our high-resolution dendrometer network was suitable to disentangle the effects of a severe heatwave on tree growth and desiccation at large-spatial scales in situ, and provided insights on which species may be more vulnerable to climate extremes.
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Climate ChangeDehydrationEcologyForestsInfrared RaysClimateDroughtsEcosystemNorwayPiceaPinus sylvestrisSoilTreesWaterSoilWater
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