Wood Anatomical Traits Respond to Climate but More Individualistically as Compared to Radial Growth: Analyze Trees, Not Means
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Sites and Tree Species
2.2. Climate Data
2.3. Tree-Ring Width and Wood Anatomical Data
2.4. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Statistics and Variability of Radial Growth and Wood Anatomy
3.2. Trait Variance Decomposition between Species and Individuals
3.3. Effects of Seasonal Climate on Measured Traits and Variance Decomposition
4. Discussion
4.1. The Percentage of Variance Explained for Each Trait Differs between Tree Species
4.2. The Percentage of Variance Explained Differs between Traits and Individuals
4.3. There Is Great Variability between Individuals of the Same Population for Wood Anatomical Traits
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Pinus halepensis | Pinus sylvestris | Pinus lumholtzii | |||||||
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TRW | MCA | CWT | TRW | MCA | CWT | TRW | MCA | CWT | |
No. trees | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Span | 1970–2012 | 1970–2012 | 1970–2012 | 1950–2010 | 1950–2010 | 1950–2010 | 1970–2013 | 1970–2013 | 1970–2013 |
Mean | 1.82 | 274.08 | 4.12 | 0.61 | 435.21 | 4.16 | 1.06 | 442.05 | 6.05 |
SD | 1.04 | 79.29 | 0.33 | 0.36 | 106.09 | 0.38 | 0.45 | 93.99 | 0.81 |
AR1 | 0.48 | 0.46 | 0.47 | 0.53 | 0.20 | 0.27 | 0.61 | 0.18 | 0.53 |
MS | 0.38 | 0.20 | 0.04 | 0.44 | 0.24 | 0.08 | 0.26 | 0.20 | 0.09 |
Rbar | 0.45 | 0.61 | 0.19 | 0.69 | 0.41 | 0.23 | 0.39 | 0.04 | 0.11 |
EPS | 0.77 | 0.86 | 0.48 | 0.91 | 0.77 | 0.59 | 0.58 | 0.13 | 0.31 |
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Rita, A.; Camarero, J.J.; Colangelo, M.; de Andrés, E.G.; Pompa-García, M. Wood Anatomical Traits Respond to Climate but More Individualistically as Compared to Radial Growth: Analyze Trees, Not Means. Forests 2022, 13, 956. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13060956
Rita A, Camarero JJ, Colangelo M, de Andrés EG, Pompa-García M. Wood Anatomical Traits Respond to Climate but More Individualistically as Compared to Radial Growth: Analyze Trees, Not Means. Forests. 2022; 13(6):956. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13060956
Chicago/Turabian StyleRita, Angelo, Jesús Julio Camarero, Michele Colangelo, Ester González de Andrés, and Marín Pompa-García. 2022. "Wood Anatomical Traits Respond to Climate but More Individualistically as Compared to Radial Growth: Analyze Trees, Not Means" Forests 13, no. 6: 956. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13060956