{"id":2021,"date":"2016-10-17T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/afs\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2016-10-17T22:35:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T20:35:41","slug":"self-thinning-in-four-pine-species-an-evaluation-of-potential-climate-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2016\/10\/17\/self-thinning-in-four-pine-species-an-evaluation-of-potential-climate-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-thinning in four pine species: an evaluation of potential climate impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><div id=\"ASec1\" class=\"AbstractSection\">\n<p class=\"Para\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong class=\"EmphasisTypeBold \">Self-thinning lines are species- and climate-specific, and they should be used when assessing the capacity of different forest stands to increase biomass\/carbon storage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ASec2\" class=\"AbstractSection\">\n<h3 class=\"Heading\">Abstract<\/h3>\n<p id=\"Par5\" class=\"Para\" style=\"text-align: justify\">The capacity of forests to store carbon can help to mitigate the effects of atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> rise and climate change. The self-thinning relationship (average size measure \u223c stand density) has been used to identify the potential capacity of biomass storage at a given density and to evaluate the effect of stand management on stored carbon. Here, a study that shows how the self-thinning line varies with species and climate is presented. Our main objective is thus testing whether species identity and climate affect the self-thinning line and therefore the potential amount of carbon stored in living biomass. The Ecological and Forest Inventory of Catalonia was used to calculate the self-thinning lines of four common coniferous species in Catalonia, NE Iberian Peninsula (<em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Pinus halepensis<\/em>, <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Pinus nigra<\/em>, <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Pinus sylvestris<\/em> and <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Pinus uncinata<\/em>). Quadratic mean diameter at breast height was chosen as the average size measure. The self-thinning lines were used to predict the potential diameter at a given density and study the effect of environmental variability. Species-specific self-thinning lines were obtained. The self-thinning exponent was consistent with the predicted values of \u22123\/2 and \u22124\/3 for mass-based scaling for all species except <em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">P. sylvestris<\/em>. Species identity and climatic variability within species affected self-thinning line parameters. Self-thinning lines are species-specific and are affected by climatic conditions. These relationships can be used to refine predictions of the capacity of different forest stands to increase biomass\/carbon storage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13595-016-0585-y'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600\" href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13595-016-0585-y\"><strong>Read the full paper <\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #808000\"><strong>Publication<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Brunet-Navarro P, Sterck FJ, Vayreda J, Martinez-Vilalta J, Mohren GMJ 2016. Self-thinning in four pine species: an evaluation of potential climate impacts. Ann. For. Sci.: 1-10. 10.1007\/s13595-016-0585-y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-thinning lines are species- and climate-specific, and they should be used when assessing the capacity of different forest stands to increase biomass\/carbon storage. Abstract The capacity of forests to store carbon can help to mitigate the effects of atmospheric CO2 rise and climate change. The self-thinning relationship (average size measure \u223c stand density) has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","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=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}