Highest drought sensitivity and lowest resistance to growth suppression are found in the range core of the tree Fagus sylvatica L. not the equatorial range edge
biogeography
; climate change
; deciduous tree
; drought
; growth response
; population decline
; population density
; temporal analysis
; tree ring
; Fagus
; Fagus sylvatica
This research was partially funded through the ERA-Net BiodivERsA project Beech Forests for the Future by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, grant NE/G002118/1) and through Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant IN-2013-004. We are grateful to Andrew Hackett-Pain and Adrià Barbeta for assistance with fieldwork, to James Weir and Daniel Souto-Vilaros for assistance with laboratory work and to Christian Zang and Miguel Angel de Zavala for advice on the manuscript.
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom; CREAF (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals, Campus de Bellaterra (UAB), Edifici C. 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
Recommended Citation:
Cavin L.,Jump A.S.. Highest drought sensitivity and lowest resistance to growth suppression are found in the range core of the tree Fagus sylvatica L. not the equatorial range edge[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(1)