Stand competition determines how different tree species will cope with a warming climate.

ABSTRACT: Plant-plant interactions influence how forests cope with climate and contribute to modulate species response to future climate scenarios. We analysed the functional relationships between growth, climate and competition for Pinus sylvestris, Quercus pyrenaica and Quercus faginea to investigate how stand competition modifies forest sensitivity to climate and simulated how annual growth rates of these species with different drought tolerance would change throughout the 21st century. Dendroecological data from stands subjected to thinning were modelled using a novel multiplicative nonlinear approach to overcome biases related to the general assumption of a linear relationship between covariates and to better mimic the biological relationships involved. Growth always decreased exponentially wit

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-de-Una L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4380403 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature