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Phenological differentiation in sugar maple populations and responses of bud break to an experimental warming

Summary

Published in Forests 11(9): 929. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11090929

Species with wide geographical ranges exhibit specific adaptations to local climates, which may result in diverging responses among populations to changing conditions. Climate change has advanced spring phenology worldwide, but questions of whether and how the phenological responses to warming differ among individuals across the natural range of a species remain. We conducted two experiments in January and April 2019, and performed daily observations of the timings of bud break in 1-year-old seedlings of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marshall) from 25 Canadian provenances at two thermal conditions (14/10 and 18/14 °C day/night temperature) in a controlled environment. Overall, bud break started 6 days from the beginning of the experiments and finished after 125 days. The earlier events were observed in seedlings originating from the colder sites. Bud break was delayed by 4.8 days per additional degree Celsius in the mean annual temperature at the origin site. Warming advanced the timing of bud break by 17–27 days in January and by 3–8 days in April. Similar advancements in bud break were observed among provenances under warming conditions, which rejected our hypothesis that sugar maple populations have different phenological responses to warming. Our findings confirm the differentiation in ecotypes for the process of bud break in sugar maple. In cases of homogenous spring warming across the native range of sugar maple, similar advancements in bud phenology can be expected in different populations.

Sector(s): 

Forests

Categorie(s): 

Scientific Article

Theme(s): 

Forestry Research, Forests, Silviculture

Departmental author(s): 

Raymond, Patricia

Author(s)

REN, Ping, Eryuan LIANG, Patricia RAYMOND, Sergio ROSSI

Year of publication :

2020

Format :

PDF

ISSN

1999-4907

Keywords :

article scientifique de la recherche forestière, érable à sucre, débourrement, changements climatiques, écotype, chambre de croissance, phénologie, température, sylviculture et rendement des forêts naturelles - peuplements mixtes, Acer saccharum, forestry research scientific article, silviculture and yield of natural forests - mixed stands, sugar maple, bud burst, climate change, ecotype, growth chamber, phenology, temperature

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