Wood Radial Growth and Density under Climate Changes
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2020) | Viewed by 147
Special Issue Editor
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Dear Colleagues,
It is well known that climate change may lead to exacerbating limiting climatic conditions for tree growth. Therefore, tree rings are natural archives of climate and environmental information and fluctuations. As such, wood radial growth/density of forestry species has been significantly impacted by extreme droughts, storms, floods, heatwaves or fire events linked to past or post-industrial climate changes. Since the industrial revolution, our planet has been increasingly subjected to significant climate change that will be emphasized in the near future. It is thus legitimate to wonder how such a change will affect the productivity, quality, and sustainability of wood resources for the forestry sector.
Several related questions emerge. Is it possible to use tree rings’ characteristics linked to past climate change to safely predict the response of tree ring traits to future climate change along the twenty-first century and according to the most up-to-date and prevailing climate change scenarios? Are empirical models built from climate-driven growth/density relationships that use regional climate variables to predict ring indexes useful and safe to project wood growth and quality until 2100? Or should we necessarily rely on the development of mechanistic tree-ring models to project the impact of climate change on timber productivity and quality worldwide? How do process-based models compare to empirical or stochastic ones when it comes to tree ring properties?
To avoid time-consuming dendrochronological measurements, is it possible to link remotely sensed vegetation indexes (such as NDVI) to dendrochronological traits to quantify climate‐induced shifts in tree rings within tree species and forest biomes and over space and time?
In this Special Issue of Forests, we aim to update our knowledge on the evolution of tree dendrochronological traits in the near future, to improve methodological and modelling approaches, and to develop tools and digital applications to support forest stakeholders’ decisions in the context of climate change until 2100 according to representative concentration pathways (RCPs). Therefore, manuscript submissions focusing on the topics and questions mentioned above are highly welcome and encouraged.
Dr. Cathy Kurz Besson
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Forest tree species
- Dendrochronology
- Wood radial density
- Wood radial growth
- Extreme weather
- Climate changes
- Climate change projections
- Remote sensing
- Tree ring modeling
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