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Different growth sensitivity to climate of the conifer Juniperus thurifera on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Biometeorology, March 2014
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Title
Different growth sensitivity to climate of the conifer Juniperus thurifera on both sides of the Mediterranean Sea
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International Journal of Biometeorology, March 2014
DOI 10.1007/s00484-014-0811-y
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Lucía DeSoto, Filipa Varino, José P. Andrade, Celia M. Gouveia, Filipe Campelo, Ricardo M. Trigo, Cristina Nabais

Abstract

Mediterranean plants cope with cold wet winters and dry hot summers, with a drought gradient from northwest to southeast. Limiting climatic conditions have become more pronounced in the last decades due to the warming trend and rainfall decrease. Juniperus thurifera L., a long-lived conifer tree endemic to the western Mediterranean region, has a disjunct distribution in Europe and Africa, making it a suitable species to study sensitivity to climate in both sides of the Mediterranean Basin. Tree-ring width chronologies were built for three J. thurifera stands at Spain (Europe) and three in Morocco (Africa) and correlated with monthly temperature and precipitation. The temporal stability of climate-growth relationships was assessed using moving correlations; the drought effect on growth was calculated using the monthly standardized precipitation-evapotranspiration index (SPEI) at different temporal scales. In the wettest stands, increasing spring temperature and summer precipitation enhanced growth, while in the driest stands, growth was enhanced by higher spring precipitation and lower summer temperature. The climate-growth correlations shifted during the twentieth century, especially since the 1970s. Particularly noticeable is the recent negative correlation with previous autumn and winter precipitation in the wettest stands of J. thurifera, probably related with an effect of cloud cover or flooding on carbon storage depletion for next year growth. The driest stands were affected by drought at long time scales, while the wettest stands respond to drought at short time scales. This reveals a different strategy to cope with drought conditions, with populations from drier sites able to cope with short periods of water deficit.

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Country Count As %
Denmark 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Unknown 51 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 30%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Professor 3 6%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 9 17%
Unknown 11 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 17 32%
Environmental Science 11 21%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 9%
Computer Science 1 2%
Social Sciences 1 2%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 16 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 April 2014.
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