Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 21; no. 12; pp. 1833 - 1844
• Main Authors: Hacket‐Pain, Andrew J., Ascoli, Davide, Vacchiano, Giorgio, Biondi, Franco, Cavin, Liam, Conedera, Marco, Drobyshev, Igor, Liñán, Isabel Dorado, Friend, Andrew D., Grabner, Michael, Hartl, Claudia, Kreyling, Juergen, Lebourgeois, François, Levanič, Tom, Menzel, Annette, Maaten, Ernst, Maaten‐Theunissen, Marieke, Muffler, Lena, Motta, Renzo, Roibu, Catalin‐Constantin, Popa, Ionel, Scharnweber, Tobias, Weigel, Robert, Wilmking, Martin, Zang, Christian S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2018; Wiley; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Climate; Climate change; Climate effects; data collection; Dendrochronology; drought; Ecology; Ekologi; Environmental Sciences; European beech; Fagus sylvatica; Forest ecosystems; forest growth; Forest Science; growth retardation; Letter; Letters; Life Sciences; masting; path analysis; Plant species; Reproduction; Reproduction (biology); Reproductive effort; SEM; Skogsvetenskap; Species; stem elongation; Structural equation modeling; structural equation modelling; summer; temperature; Terrestrial ecosystems; trade‐off; tree growth; trees; path analysis; forest growth; drought; masting; European beech; trade-off; SEM; structural equation modelling; Dendrochronology; Fagus sylvatica; structural equationmodelling

Climatically controlled allocation to reproduction is a key mechanism by which climate influences tree growth and may explain lagged correlations between climate and growth. We used continent‐wide datasets of tree‐ring chronologies and annual reproductive effort in Fagus sylvatica from 1901 to 2015...