{"id":1243,"date":"2015-03-05T22:57:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T21:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/afs\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:22:34","slug":"the-effects-of-thinning-intensity-and-tree-size-on-the-growth-response-to-annual-climate-in-cedrus-atlantica-a-linear-mixed-modeling-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2015\/03\/05\/the-effects-of-thinning-intensity-and-tree-size-on-the-growth-response-to-annual-climate-in-cedrus-atlantica-a-linear-mixed-modeling-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"The effects of thinning intensity and tree size on the growth response to annual climate in Cedrus atlantica: a linear mixed modeling approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p class=\"a-plus-plus\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong class=\"a-plus-plus\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/Guillemot-et-al.-2015.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1619\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1619\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/Guillemot-et-al.-2015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Guillemot et al., 2015\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/Guillemot-et-al.-2015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/Guillemot-et-al.-2015-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>With a retrospective growth analysis over 20\u00a0years, we showed that silviculture (in particular thinning) of<\/strong> <strong class=\"a-plus-plus\"><em>Cedrus atlantica<\/em><\/strong> <strong class=\"a-plus-plus\">(Manetti) could to some extent mitigate the effects of drought episodes. Severe reductions of density resulted in faster recovery of radial growth after severe drought episodes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"abstract-content formatted\">\n<p class=\"a-plus-plus\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and the intensity of drought in southern Europe. Silviculture could help in mitigating the effects of water deficit on forests. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of thinning intensity on the climate-growth relationship of different crown classes in <em class=\"a-plus-plus\">Cedrus atlantica<\/em> (Manetti). A 20-year annual survey was conducted on plots managed under contrasted thinning regimes in a site of the southern French Alps. Using a linear mixed modeling approach, we evaluated the modulation of the growth response to annual climate by thinning (climate\u2009\u00d7\u2009thinning interaction effect) during the experiment. The effect of thinning on the growth sensitivity to annual climate and the effect of thinning on the growth response to pointer years were also quantified. The highest intensity of thinning significantly changed the climate-growth relationship of the two most dominant crown classes. Heavy thinning reduced the impact of negative pointer years during a period of 4\u20135\u00a0years and improved the post-drought recovery for a decade. Heavily thinned plots and dominant crown classes had significantly higher relative growth sensitivities to annual climate over the studied period. Forest management has the potential to reduce the effect of water deficit on the growth of Atlas cedar stands. We provide keystones for future silvicultural guidelines, in the context of a larger introduction of <em class=\"a-plus-plus\">C. atlantica<\/em> in the French territory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"altmetric-embed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmetric.com\/details.php?domain=ist.blogs.inra.fr&amp;citation_id=3711617\" target=\"_self\"><div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13595-015-0464-y'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Publication<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Guillemot J, Klein E, Davi H, Courbet F 2015. The effects of thinning intensity and tree size on the growth response to annual climate in <em>Cedrus atlantica<\/em>: a linear mixed modeling approach. Ann For Sci 72:651\u2013663 doi: <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13595-015-0464-y\">10.1007\/s13595-015-0464-y<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a retrospective growth analysis over 20\u00a0years, we showed that silviculture (in particular thinning) of Cedrus atlantica (Manetti) could to some extent mitigate the effects of drought episodes. Severe reductions of density resulted in faster recovery of radial growth after severe drought episodes. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and the intensity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-type","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-15-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}