RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Forest productivity in southwestern Europe controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations
A1 Madrigal González, Jaime
A1 Ballesteros-Cánovas  , Juan A.
A1 Herrero Méndez, Asier
A1 Ruiz Benito, Paloma
A1 Stoffel  , M.
A1 Lucas-Borja  , Manuel E.
A1 Sancho-García  , C
A1 Zavala Gironés, Miguel Ángel de
K1 Medio Ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) depicts annual and decadal oscillatory modes ofvariability responsible for dry spells over the European continent. The NAO therefore holds agreat potential to evaluate the role, as carbon sinks, of water-limited forests under climatechange. However, uncertainties related to inconsistent responses of long-term forestproductivity to NAO have so far hampered firm conclusions on its impacts. We hypothesizethat, in part, such inconsistencies might have their origin in periodical sea surfacetemperature anomalies in the Atlantic Ocean (i.e., Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, AMO).Here we show strong empirical evidence in support of this hypothesis using 120 years ofperiodical inventory data from Iberian pine forests. Our results point to AMO+ NAO+ andAMO−NAO− phases as being critical for forest productivity, likely due to decreased winterwater balance and abnormally low winter temperatures, respectively. Our findings could beessential for the evaluation of ecosystem functioning vulnerabilities associated with increasedclimatic anomalies under unprecedented warming conditions in the Mediterranean.
SN 2041-1723
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37665
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37665
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 03-jun-2023