文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Tree-Ring Analysis Reveals Density-Dependent Vulnerability to Drought in Planted Mongolian Pines

作者：Sun, ShouJia[1,2] Lei, Shuai[1,2] Jia, HanSen[1,2] Li, Chunyou[3] Zhang, JinSong[1,2] Meng, Ping[1,2]

第一作者：Sun, ShouJia;孙守家

通信作者：Meng, P[1];Meng, P[2]

机构：[1]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Forestry, Key Lab Tree Breeding & Cultivat, State Forestry Adm, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China;[2]Nanjing Forestry Univ, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Sustainable Forestry South, Nanjing 210037, Peoples R China;[3]Agr Univ Hebei, Coll Landscape & Travel, Baoding 071000, Peoples R China

年份：2020

卷号：11

期号：1

外文期刊名：FORESTS

收录：;EI(收录号：20200508108683);Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85078513970);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000513184500098)】；

基金：This work was supported by a National Nonprofit Institute Research Grant of the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAFYBB2018ZA001), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 31470705), and the Project of the Co-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China of Nanjing Forestry University.

语种：英文

外文关键词：Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica; decline; tree ring; radial growth; recovery; resilience

摘要：Population density influences tree responses to environmental stresses, such as drought and high temperature. Prolonged drought negatively affects the health of Mongolian pines in forests planted by the Three-North Shelter Forest Program in North China. To understand the relationship between stand density and drought-induced forest decline, and to generate information regarding the development of future management strategies, we analyzed the vulnerability to drought of planted Mongolian pines at three stand densities. A tree-ring width index for trees from each density was established from tree-ring data covering the period 1988-2018 and was compared for differences in radial growth. Resistance (R-t), recovery (R-c), resilience (R-s), and relative resilience (RRs) in response to drought events were calculated from the smoothed basal area increment (BAI) curves. The high-density (HDT) group showed a consistently lower tree-ring width than the border trees (BT) and low-density (LDT) groups. The BAI curve of the HDT group started to decrease five years earlier than the LDT and BT groups. Pearson correlation analysis revealed that the radial growth of all of the groups was related to precipitation, relative humidity (RH), potential evapotranspiration (ET0), and standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) in the previous October and the most recent July, indicating that Mongolian pine trees of different densities had similar growth-climate relationships. Over the three decades, the trees experienced three severe drought events, each causing reduced tree-ring width and BAI. All of the groups showed similar R-c to each drought event, but the HDT group exhibited significantly lower R-t, R-s, and RRs than the BT group, suggesting that the HDT trees were more vulnerable to repeated drought stress. The RRs of the HDT group decreased progressively after each drought event and attained <0 after the third event. All of the groups showed similar trends regarding water consumption under varying weather conditions, but the HDT group showed significantly reduced whole-tree hydraulic capability compared with the other two groups. From these results, HDT trees exhibit ecophysiological memory effects from successive droughts, including sap flux dysfunction and higher competition index, which may prevent recovery of pre-drought growth rates. HDT trees may be at greater risk of mortality under future drought disturbance.