Claim · model-written summary
Very cold winters had a significant impact on the differentiation of growth patterns among oak trees of different health status.
- Taxon
- Pedunculate oak
Quercus roburt0 - Treatment
- very cold winterse0
- Outcome
- growth-pattern differentiatione0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Pedunculate oak”
e0“very cold winters and caterpillar outbreaks have significant impacts on growth-pattern differentiation”
Title
Julie Losseau; Mathieu Jonard; Caroline Vincke Canadian Journal of Forest Research 2019. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2019-0341
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Oak mortality in the Ardennes is a long-term process, with 1987 a tipping point for the growth trajectories of declining and dying trees.
- Observation The year 1987 was preceded by two growth crises, 1976-1981 and 1984-1987, in the studied oaks.
- Association Caterpillar outbreaks had a significant impact on the differentiation of growth patterns among oak trees of different health status.
- Association Mild spring droughts, especially in the years n-1 and n-2, explain some of the growth loss of declining and dying oaks relative to reference trees.
- Observation Apart from 1976, extreme drought is still rare in the studied area.
- Association Masting appears to be an important contributing factor to the death of weakened oak trees.