{"id":6773,"date":"2026-01-22T10:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6773"},"modified":"2026-01-22T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:39:26","slug":"crown-branching-trade-offs-mediate-growth-and-resilience-to-drought-frost-and-masting-under-moderate-thinning-in-european-beech-fagus-sylvatica-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2026\/01\/22\/crown-branching-trade-offs-mediate-growth-and-resilience-to-drought-frost-and-masting-under-moderate-thinning-in-european-beech-fagus-sylvatica-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown\u2013branching trade-offs mediate growth and resilience to drought, frost, and masting under moderate thinning in European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/26-01-22_Larysch-E.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6778 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/26-01-22_Larysch-E-300x241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/26-01-22_Larysch-E-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/26-01-22_Larysch-E-640x515.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/01\/26-01-22_Larysch-E.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key message<\/strong><br \/>\nThinning boosts radial growth in European beech (<i>Fagus sylvatica<\/i>\u00a0L.), but more is not always better: moderate thinning offers the best vitality balance by keeping resilience comparable to heavily thinned trees, while reducing the sensitivity to late frost and the interannual growth variability and avoiding excessive branching in the crown.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nForestry; Stress impact; Dendroecology<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-025-01319-1'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nLarysch, E., Schindler, Z., Hirsch, M.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0Crown\u2013branching trade-offs mediate growth and resilience to drought, frost, and masting under moderate thinning in European Beech (<i>Fagus sylvatica<\/i>\u00a0L.).\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a083, 3 (2026). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01319-1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01319-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nAndreas Bolte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key message Thinning boosts radial growth in European beech (Fagus sylvatica\u00a0L.), but more is not always better: moderate thinning offers the best vitality balance by keeping resilience comparable to heavily thinned trees, while reducing the sensitivity to late frost and the interannual growth variability and avoiding excessive branching in the crown. Keywords Forestry; Stress impact; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-non-classe","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-1-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","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\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6781,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}