Site-scale soil conditions influencing the decline of Aleppo pine stands in Mediterranean Spanish woodland

• Published in: Plant and soil Vol. 504; no. 1; pp. 493 - 504
• Main Authors: Gómez-Sanz, Valentín, Gastón, Aitor, García-Viñas, Juan Ignacio, Serrada-Hierro, Rafael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.04.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aeration; Agriculture; Anisotropy; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Drought; Ecology; Information processing; Life Sciences; Pine; Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences; Plant species; Population decline; Research Article; Soil conditions; Soil permeability; Soil properties; Soil quality; Soil Science & Conservation; Soil water; Variability; Water uptake; Woodlands; Textural anisotropy; Forest dieback; Mediterranean climate; Edaphic heterogeneity; Degree of soil evolution

Background and aims Decline in tree species is a complex phenomenon involving multiple factors, among edaphic conditions are assumed to play an important role as factor of predisposition of forests to this process. In this regard, scarce information exists on the effects of the internal variability...