Drought constrains acorn production and tree growth in the Mediterranean holm oak and triggers weak legacy effects

dc.bibliographicCitation.titleAgricultural And Forest Meteorologyen
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume334es_ES
dc.contributor.authorGarcía Barreda, Sergies_ES
dc.contributor.authorValeriano, Cristinaes_ES
dc.contributor.authorCamarero Martínez, Jesús Julioes_ES
dc.coverage.spatialCiencia Vegetales_ES
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-03T07:46:28Z
dc.date.available2023-11-03T07:46:28Z
dc.date.issued2023es_ES
dc.date.updated2023-04-03T12:33:12Z
dc.description.abstractDroughts are becoming more frequent in the Mediterranean basin due to warmer conditions. Droughts negatively impact forests growth for several years, often generating negative legacies or carryover effects. However, these legacies differ among tree species, sites and drought characteristics and have been mainly studied considering tree growth or canopy greenness, but ignoring reproductive phenomena. Here, we compare the legacy effects of drought on acorn and male inflorescence production and radial growth by using a 19-year series of 150 Quercus ilex individuals in three stands located in north-eastern Spain. We evaluate the relationships between monthly climate variables, tree-ring width, acorn production and male inflorescence production. For the two driest years considered (2005 and 2012), when very few acorns were produced, we did not find negative legacy effects on acorn production in the three years following droughts. The production of male inflorescences did not show any significant legacy after drought, although its annual variation was related to the climatic conditions of the year before acorn ripening. Acorn production was higher than expected for some of these years, apparently following the pattern of tree growth recovery with a certain lag. This compensatory response of acorn production differed between the two analysed droughts, in accordance with different conditions of drought timing and post-drought climate conditions. Even though few negative legacy effects of growth and acorn production were found, we confirmed the negative effect of drought stress on tree growth and acorn production, linked to dry winter conditions. Our findings confirm that drought features (timing, den
dc.description.otherDroughten
dc.description.otherLegacyen
dc.description.otherAcorn productionen
dc.description.otherRadial growthen
dc.description.otherQuercus ilexen
dc.description.otherMastingen
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, grant number FORMAL (RTI2018-096884-B-C31) to JJC. We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project UERRA (http://www.uerra.eu) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service, and the data providers in the ECA&D project (https://www. ecad.eu). We also thank Gabriel Montserrat Martí, Gabriel Sangüesa Barreda, Michele Colangelo, Jos´e Manuel Altarriba and Pedro S´ anchez for their help in the field.es_ES
dc.description.statusPublishedes_ES
dc.identifier.citationAgricultural And Forest Meteorology, 2023, 334, 109435
dc.identifier.issn01681923
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10532/6684
dc.language.isoeses_ES
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109435es_ES
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109435es_ES
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españaes
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/es
dc.subject.agrovocSequíaen
dc.subject.agrovocBosquesen
dc.subject.agrovocBellotasen
dc.subject.agrovocCondiciones ambientalesen
dc.subject.agrovocQuercus ilexen
dc.titleDrought constrains acorn production and tree growth in the Mediterranean holm oak and triggers weak legacy effectsen
dc.typeJournal Contribution*
dc.type.refereedNon-Refereedes_ES
dc.type.specifiedArticlees_ES

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