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Constraints to growth of boreal forests

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  • Paul Jarvis

    (Institute of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Edinburgh, The King's Buildings)

  • Sune Linder

    (Department for Production Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

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Understanding how the growth of trees at high latitudes in boreal forest is controlled is important for projections of global carbon sequestration and timber production in relation to climate change. Is stem growth of boreal forest trees constrained by the length of the growing season when stem cambial cells divide1, or by the length of the period when resources can be captured2? In both cases, the timing of the thaw in the spring is critical: neither cambial cell division nor uptake of nutrients and carbon dioxide can occur while the soil is frozen. Here we argue, on the basis of long-term observations made in northern Saskatchewan and Sweden, that the time between the spring thaw and the autumn freeze determines the amount of annual tree growth, mainly through temperature effects on carbon-dioxide uptake in spring and on nutrient availability and uptake during summer, rather than on cambial cell division.

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  • Paul Jarvis & Sune Linder, 2000. "Constraints to growth of boreal forests," Nature, Nature, vol. 405(6789), pages 904-905, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:405:y:2000:i:6789:d:10.1038_35016154
    DOI: 10.1038/35016154
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    1. Huang, Suo & Bartlett, Paul & Arain, M. Altaf, 2016. "An analysis of global terrestrial carbon, water and energy dynamics using the carbon–nitrogen coupled CLASS-CTEMN+ model," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 336(C), pages 36-56.
    2. Chen, Bin & Arain, M. Altaf & Chen, Jing M. & Croft, Holly & Grant, Robert F. & Kurz, Werner A. & Bernier, Pierre & Guindon, Luc & Price, David & Wang, Ziyu, 2016. "Evaluating the impacts of climate variability and cutting and insect defoliation on the historical carbon dynamics of a boreal black spruce forest landscape in eastern Canada," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 321(C), pages 98-109.
    3. F. Orlandi & H. Garcia-Mozo & A. Dhiab & C. Galán & M. Msallem & B. Romano & M. Abichou & E. Dominguez-Vilches & M. Fornaciari, 2013. "Climatic indices in the interpretation of the phenological phases of the olive in mediterranean areas during its biological cycle," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 116(2), pages 263-284, January.
    4. Huang, Suo & Bartlett, Paul & Arain, M. Altaf, 2016. "Assessing nitrogen controls on carbon, water and energy exchanges in major plant functional types across North America using a carbon and nitrogen coupled ecosystem model," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 323(C), pages 12-27.
    5. Helen Ding & Silvia Silvestri & Aline Chiabai & Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, 2010. "A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change Effects on Ecosystem Services: Evidence from the European Forests," Working Papers 2010.50, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    6. Ge, Zhen-ming & Zhou, Xiao & Kellomäki, Seppo & Wang, Kai-yun & Peltola, Heli & Väisänen, Hannu & Strandman, Harri, 2010. "Effects of changing climate on water and nitrogen availability with implications on the productivity of Norway spruce stands in Southern Finland," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 221(13), pages 1731-1743.
    7. Paulo A.L.D. Nunes & Helen Ding & Sonja Teelucksingh, 2010. "European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services: An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts," Working Papers 2010.10, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.

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