Crown defoliation improves tree mortality models

By Matthias Dobbertin, P. Brang. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “…often must exceed 30%, an amount easily observed by field personnel, before a noticeable increase in probability of mortality occurs (Wickman 1963, Dobbertin and Brang 2001), it is unlikely that we have underestimated the role of folivory when we conclude that its contribution to tree mortality…”
Growth-dependent tree mortality models based on tree rings (2003, methodology): “1983; Kobe 1996; Wyckoff and Clark 2000), (iii) crown-related variables (e.g., leaf area index or crown defoliation; Crow and Hicks 1990; Monserud and Sterba 1999; Dobbertin and Brang 2001), (iv) ratios of crown-related and growth-related variables (e.”
Drought-induced decline and mortality of silver fir differ among three sites in Southern France (2013, methodology): “Even if crown damage is often related to the probability of tree mortality (Dobbertin and Brang 2001), severely declining trees showed a different GI evolution with time than dead trees, indicating that decline and mortality processes can be dissociated.”
Drought as an Inciting Mortality Factor in Scots Pine Stands of the Valais, Switzerland (2006, background): “As foliage amount affects both tree growth (Solberg 1999) and tree mortality (Dobbertin and Brang 2001), longer lasting effects of multi-year drought on growth and mortality can be expected.”
Drought-Induced Multifactor Decline of Scots Pine in the Pyrenees and Potential Vegetation Change by the Expansion of Co-occurring Oak Species (2010, background): “Nevertheless, leaf-shedding also signals the early stages of a sequence leading to tree death (Dobbertin 1999; Dobbertin and Brang 2001).”
Assessing the role of bark‐ and wood‐boring insects in the decline of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) in the Swiss Rhone valley (2008, background): “The level of transparency has previously been © 2008 The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 The Royal Entomological Society, Ecological Entomology, 33, 239–249 found to correlate directly with tree mortality ( Dobbertin & Brang, 2001; Dobbertin & Rigling, 2006 ).”
Competition modulates the adaptation capacity of forests to climatic stress: insights from recent growth decline and death in relict stands of the Mediterranean fir Abies pinsapo (2010, background): “Thus, a given amount of crown defoliation induced by drought on a suppressed growing tree would cause the tree to have much less total photosynthetic leaf area than the same relative defoliation of crown in a dominant growing tree would do (Dobbertin & Brang 2001).”
Climate change may already threaten Scots pine stands in the Swiss Alps (2004, background): “Dobbertin and Brang (2001) showed that mortality rates increase exponentially with increasing defoliation.”
Is drought the main decline factor at the rear edge of Europe? The case of southern Iberian pine plantations (2012, methodology): “Leaf-shedding also signals the early stages of a sequence leading to tree death (Dobbertin, 1999; Dobbertin and Brang, 2001; Galiano et al., 2010; Carnicer et al., 2011; Sánchez-Salguero et al., 2012).”
Pine mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. austriacum) contributes to Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) mortality in the Rhone valley of Switzerland (2006, background): “Transparency has been successfully used as predictor of subsequent mortality for other species in Switzerland (Dobbertin and Brang 2001).”