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title = "Plasticity in dendroclimatic response across the distribution range of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis)",
abstract = "We investigated the variability of the climate-growth relationship of Aleppo pine across its distribution range in the Mediterranean Basin. We constructed a network of tree-ring index chronologies from 63 sites across the region. Correlation function analysis identified the relationships of tree-ring index to climate factors for each site. We also estimated the dominant climatic gradients of the region using principal component analysis of monthly, seasonal, and annual mean temperature and total precipitation from 1,068 climatic gridpoints. Variation in ring width index was primarily related to precipitation and secondarily to temperature. However, we found that the dendroclimatic relationship depended on the position of the site along the climatic gradient. In the southern part of the distribution range, where temperature was generally higher and precipitation lower than the regional average, reduced growth was also associated with warm and dry conditions. In the northern part, where the average temperature was lower and the precipitation more abundant than the regional average, reduced growth was associated with cool conditions. Thus, our study highlights the substantial plasticity of Aleppo pine in response to different climatic conditions. These results do not resolve the source of response variability as being due to either genetic variation in provenance, to phenotypic plasticity, or a combination of factors. However, as current growth responses to inter-annual climate variability vary spatially across existing climate gradients, future climate-growth relationships will also likely be determined by differential adaptation and/or acclimation responses to spatial climatic variation. The contribution of local adaptation and/or phenotypic plasticity across populations to the persistence of species under global warming could be decisive for prediction of climate change impacts across populations. In this sense, a more complex forest dynamics modeling approach that includes the contribution of genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity can improve the reliability of the ecological inferences derived from the climate-growth relationships.",
keywords = "$δ$13C, $δ$18O, Agriculture, Aleppo pine, Annual precipitation reconstruction, Basal area increment, Calabrian pine, Cambial age, Chemical, Clearcutting, Climate change, Climatic change, Cyprus, Dendrochronology, Dendroclimatic reconstruction, Dendroclimatology, Dendroecology, Disturbance ecology, Diurnal temperature range, Drought, Drought record, Drought stress, ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTS, Ecosystem, Ecosystem response, Elevational gradient, European pine sawfly, Fire, Fire scar, Forest, Forest growth, Forest protection, GROWTH, GROWTH RINGS, GROWTH-RATE, GROWTH-RINGS, Geopotential height, Global warming, Greece, Juvenile wood, Latitudinal gradient, MILL, Matsucoccus, Mature wood, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean forest, Mediterranean region, Minimum temperature, Mixed-effects models, Morphological and physiological examination, Mortality, NAO, Nested reconstruction, North atlantic oscillation, PATTERN, PATTERNS, Pinus, Pinus brutia, Pinus brutia (Ten.), Pinus brutia Ten., Pinus sylvestris, Population dynamics, Precipitation, Prescribed burning, QiPh{_}ring, RADIAL GROWTH, RATES, RING, RINGS, Radial growth, Regeneration, SITE, STANDS, Seed crop, Seed dispersal, Shelterwood, Strip clearcut, Synoptic climatology analysis, Taxonomy, Thaumetopoea pityocampa, Thaumetopoea pityocampa Schiff, Thinning, Tree cohort, Tree rings, Tree-rings, Troodos massif, Vulnerability, WIDTH, Water, Wood density, acetic acid ethyl ester, air pollution, annual, article, biopreparations, brutian pine, cambial activity, climate change, cluster analysis, controlled study, correlation analysis, defoliation, dendrochronology, dendroecology, drought climatology, effect, expressed population signal, false rings, general circulation models, geographic distribution, growth loss, harmfulness, increment and growth loss, insecticides, mediterranean basin, morphology, nonhuman, november 2013, oil industry, pinus, plant growth, precipitation, processionary moth, radial growth, received 25 july 2013, resin canals, revised manuscript accepted 28, thin layer chromatography, tracheids, tree, tree ring, tree ring analysis, tree-ring, turkey, western Mediterranean, wood formation",
author = "Stergios Adamopoulos and Elias Milios and Dimitris Doganos and Ioannis Bistinas and B Aytug and Guven, {K C} and Melih Boydak and Ulf B{\"u}ntgen and Fernando Mart{\'i}nez-Pe{\~n}a and Jorge Aldea and Andreas Rigling and Fischer, {Erich M} and Camarero, {J Julio} and Hayes, {Michael J} and Vincent Fatton and Simon Egli and Serdar Cams and {\c C}atal, {Yilmaz Yılmaz} and J Cermak and {De Luis}, {Mart{\'i}n Martin} and Katarina {\v C}ufar and {Di Filippo}, Alfredo and Klemen Novak and Andreas Papadopoulos and Gianluca Piovesan and Rathgeber, {Cyrille B K} and Jos{\'e} Ravent{\'o}s and Saz, {Miguel Angel} and Smith, {Kevin T} and Jo{\v z}ica Gri{\v c}ar and Katarina {\v C}ufar and Jos{\'e} Ravent{\'o}s and Bruno Fady and Hacer Semerci and Vendramin, {Giovanni Giuseppe} and Fisher, {James T} and Neumann, {Robert W} and Mexal, {John G} and Fournier, {T P} and G Battipaglia and B Brossier and C Carcaillet and Galv{\'a}n, {J Diego} and Camarero, {J Julio} and C Ginzler and Ulf B{\"u}ntgen and Carol Griggs and Charlotte Pearson and Manning, {Sturt W} and Brita Lorentzen and Bilgin Guller and Kani Isik and Senay Cetinay and Christian K{\"o}rner and Dimitrios Sarris and Dimitrios Christodoulakis and Linares, {Juan Carlos} and Karim Senhadji and Asier Herrero and H{\'o}dar, {Jos{\'e} A} and Nili Liphschitz and Zvi Mendel and Ra{\'u}l S{\'a}nchez-Salguero and Camarero, {J Julio} and Andrea Hevia and Jaime Madrigal-Gonz{\'a}lez and Linares, {Juan Carlos} and Ballesteros-Canovas, {Juan A} and Angela S{\'a}nchez-Miranda and Raquel Alfaro-S{\'a}nchez and Gabriel Sang{\"u}esa-Barreda and Galv{\'a}n, {J Diego} and Emilia Guti{\'e}rrez and Mar G{\'e}nova and Andreas Rigling and Dimitrios Sarris and Dimitrios Christodoulakis and Christian K{\"o}rner and Rolf Siegwolf and Christian K{\"o}rner and Ramzi Touchan and Anchukaitis, {K J} and Shishov, {V V} and F Sivrikaya and J Attieh and M Ketmen and J Stephan and I Mitsopoulos and Christou, {Andreas K} and Meko, {David M} and Garfin, {Gregg M} and Meko, {David M} and Gary Funkhouser and Nesat Erkan and Hughes, {Malcolm K} and Wallin, {Brian S} and Вендин, {А В} and Демкин, {В И} and Добронравова, {М В}",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1371/journal.pone.0083550",
language = "English",
isbn = "92-9043-571-2",
series = "Agricultural and Forest Meteorology",
publisher = "Elsevier Science B.V.",
pages = "1187--1200",
booktitle = "Agricultural and Forest Meteorology",
}