Linking functional traits with tree growth and forest productivity in Quercus ilex forests along a climatic gradient
Autores
Salazar Zarzosa, Pablo; Díaz Herraiz, Aurelio; Olmo, Manuel; Ruiz Benito, Paloma; Barrón, Vidal; [et al.]Identificadores
Enlace permanente (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50735DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147468
ISSN: 0048-9697
Fecha de publicación
2021Patrocinadores
Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional-FEDER
Junta de Andalucía
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia
Gobierno de España
Cita bibliográfica
Salazar Zarzosa, P. et al., 2021. Linking functional traits with tree growth and forest productivity in Quercus ilex forests along a climatic gradient. The Science of the total environment, 786, p.147468.
Palabras clave
Climate variability
National Forest Inventory
LMA
Aridity
RGR
Proyectos
UCO-FEDER 18 REF 27943 MOD B (FEDER)
P18-RT-3455 (Junta de Andalucía)
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//CGL2011-30285-C02-02/ES/IMPORTANCIA DE RASGOS VEGETALES CLAVES EN LA DISTRIBUCION ECOLOGICA Y EN EL EXITO EN LA RESTAURACION DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2014-53236-R/ES/EL FUNCIONAMIENTO DE LOS BOSQUES MEDITERRANEOS DESDE LA PERSPECTIVA DEL ANALISIS ECONOMICO DE LA PRODUCCION/
Tipo de documento
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Resumen
Plant functional traits are highly plastic to changes in climatic factors and nutrient availability. However, the intraspecific plant response to abiotic factors and the overall effect on tree growth and productivity is still under debate. We studied forest productivity for 30 Quercus ilex subsp. ballota forests in Spain along a broad climatic gradient of aridity (mean annual precipitation from 321 to 858 mm). We used linear mixed models to quantify the effect of climatic and edaphic (soil nutrients, topography, and texture) factors on tree functional traits (leaf and branch traits), and subsequently, the effect of such functional traits and abiotic factors on the relative growth rate (RGR) of adult trees. We used piecewise structural equation models (SEMs) to determine the causal effect of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on forest productivity. Our results showed that tree functional traits were mainly explained by climatic and edaphic factors. Functional traits and tree biomass explained forest biomass and RGR, respectively, which ultimately explained forest productivity. In conclusion, intraspecific variability of functional traits has a significant effect on plant biomass and growth, which ultimately may explain forest productivity in Quercus ilex forests.
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