on is a better predictor of stem increment than carbon supply in a mediterranean oak forest implications for assessing forest productivity under climate change - lempereur资料.pdf

Research Growth duration is a better predictor of stem increment than carbon supply in a Mediterranean oak forest: implications for assessing forest productivity under climate change 1,2 3 4 1 1 Morine Lempereur , Nicolas K. Martin-StPaul , Claire Damesin , Richard Joffre , Jean-Marc Ourcival , Alain Rocheteau5 and Serge Rambal1,6 1Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive CEFE, UMR 5175, CNRS, Universitede Montpellier, UniversitePaul-Valery Montpellier, EPHE, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; 2Agence de l’Environnement et de la Ma^ıtrise de l’Energie, 20, Avenue du Gresill e– BP 90406, 49004 Angers Cedex 01, France; 3Ecologie des Forets^ Mediterran eennes, INRA, UR629, F-84914 Avignon, France; 4 ´ Laboratoire Ecologie, Systematique et Evolution (ESE), CNRS AgroParisTech-UMR 8079, Bâtiment 362, Universite de Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France; 5IRD, CEFE, UMR 5175, 1919 Route de Mende, F-34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France; 6Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, CP 3037, CEP 37200- 000 Lavras, MG, Brazil Summary Author for correspondence: Understanding whether tree growth is limited by carbon gain (source limitation) or by the Morine Lempereur direct effect of environmental factors such as water deficit or temperature (sink limitation) is Tel: +33 crucial for improving projections of the effects of climate cha