Global warming is increasing the discrepancy between green (actual) and thermal (potential) seasons of temperate trees
Fu, Yongshuo H. (Beijing Normal University)
Geng, Xiaojun (Beijing Normal University)
Chen, Shouzhi (Beijing Normal University)
Wu, Hao (Central China Normal University)
Hao, Fanghua (Central China Normal University)
Zhang, Xuan (Beijing Normal University)
Wu, Zhaofei (Beijing Normal University)
Zhang, Jing (Beijing Normal University)
Tang, Jing (Lund University. Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science)
Vitasse, Yann (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest. Snow and Landscape Research)
Zohner, Constantin (ETH Zurich. Institute of Integrative Biology)
Janssens, Ivan (University of Antwerp. Department of Biology)
Stenseth, Nils Chr. (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Peñuelas, Josep (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)

Data:	2023
Resum:	Over the past decades, global warming has led to a lengthening of the time window during which temperatures remain favorable for carbon assimilation and tree growth, resulting in a lengthening of the green season. The extent to which forest green seasons have tracked the lengthening of this favorable period under climate warming, however, has not been quantified to date. Here, we used remote sensing data and long-term ground observations of leaf-out and coloration for six dominant species of European trees at 1773 sites, for a total of 6060 species-site combinations, during 1980-2016 and found that actual green season extensions (GS: 3. 1 ± 0. 1 day decade−1) lag four times behind extensions of the potential thermal season (TS: 12. 6 ± 0. 1 day decade−1). Similar but less pronounced differences were obtained using satellite-derived vegetation phenology observations, that is, a lengthening of 4. 4 ± 0. 13 and 7. 5 ± 0. 13 day decade−1 for GS and TS, respectively. This difference was mainly driven by the larger advance in the onset of the thermal season compared to the actual advance of leaf-out dates (spring mismatch: 7. 2 ± 0. 1 day decade−1), but to a less extent caused by a phenological mismatch between GS and TS in autumn (2. 4 ± 0. 1 day decade−1). Our results showed that forest trees do not linearly track the new thermal window extension, indicating more complex interactions between winter and spring temperatures and photoperiod and a justification of demonstrating that using more sophisticated models that include the influence of chilling and photoperiod is needed to accurately predict spring phenological changes under warmer climate. They urge caution if such mechanisms are omitted to predict, for example, how vegetative health and growth, species distribution and crop yields will change in the future.
Ajuts:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2019-110521GB-I00 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2017/SGR-1005
Nota:	Altres ajuts: Fundación Ramón Areces grant ELEMENTAL-CLIMATE
Drets:	Tots els drets reservats.
Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Matèria:	Climatic warming ; Thermal season ; Green season ; Spring leaf-out ; Autumnal foliar senescence
Publicat a:	Global change biology, Vol. 29, Issue 5 (March 2023) , p. 1377-1389, ISSN 1365-2486

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16545

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