DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.12.031
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84921456707
论文题名: Permanent forest plots show accelerating tree mortality in subalpine forests of the Colorado Front Range from 1982 to 2013
作者: Smith J.M. ; Paritsis J. ; Veblen T.T. ; Chapman T.B.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2015
卷: 341 起始页码: 8
结束页码: 17
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Climate change
; Drought
; Forest demography
; Permanent plots
; Tree mortality
Scopus关键词: Climate change
; Drought
; Population statistics
; Climatic variability
; Colorado Front Range
; Forest demography
; Permanent plot
; Subalpine forests
; Temporal variability
; Topographic positions
; Tree mortality
; Forestry
; beetle
; climate change
; coniferous forest
; drought
; marking method
; mortality
; subalpine environment
; sublethal effect
; temporal variation
; topography
; Climates
; Drought
; Forests
; Mortality
; Trees
; Colorado
; Front Range
; Rocky Mountains
; United States
; Abies lasiocarpa
; Coniferophyta
; Dryocoetes confusus
; Picea engelmannii
; Pinus contorta
; Pinus flexilis
; Scolytinae
英文摘要: Broad-scale studies have documented widespread increases in tree mortality coincident with warming in the western U.S.A., but variability in patterns and agents of mortality is poorly documented based on multi-decadal observations of permanently marked trees, particularly in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. The current study examines temporal variability in tree mortality based on monitoring>5000 permanently marked trees across a range of topographic positions and stand ages from c. 120 to>550. years over a 31-year period in subalpine forests in the Colorado Front Range. This study documents accelerating rates of annual tree mortality for subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine, and limber pine from 1982 through 2013. Over the period from 1982 to 2013, annual mortality rates for all tree species combined increased from 0.36% to 1.03% in old stands (265 to>550. years since stand-initiating fires) and from 0.30% to 0.72% in young stands (120. years since fire). Tree populations at sites of topographically moister locations and where competition was less due to presence of canopy openings, experienced initially lower rates of tree mortality but all populations experienced higher mortality rates after c. 2008. In comparison with the 1953-1994 period, the frequency of extreme high temperatures in early summer increased after the mid-1970s and more markedly after 2000. Over time, the contribution of early summer (July) conditions to annual drought has increased. This pattern of climatic variability has been coincident with and conducive to a two and a half fold increase in the average annualized tree mortality rates for the total tracked tree population from the relatively cool and wet 1982-1994 period to the warmer and drier 2008-2013 period. Tree mortality attributable to bark beetles over the 1982-2013 period was minor, except for western balsam bark beetle (. Dryocoetes confusus) which since 2008 has accounted for about 12% of the subalpine fir deaths. Overall, our findings indicate that even in the absence of lethal bark beetle outbreaks conifer mortality, apparently associated with moisture stress, has recently increased in subalpine forests in the Colorado Front Range. © 2015. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/65529
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作者单位: Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States; Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA, CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina
Recommended Citation:
Smith J.M.,Paritsis J.,Veblen T.T.,et al. Permanent forest plots show accelerating tree mortality in subalpine forests of the Colorado Front Range from 1982 to 2013[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2015-01-01,341