20.500.12556/DiRROS-16084-a98ef840-7883-3287-cc99-995f40816dbf Climate–growth relationships in Laurus azorica - a dominant tree in the Azorean Laurel forest Forests on oceanic islands, such as the Azores archipelago, enable interesting dendroclimatic research, given their pronounced climatic gradients over short geographical distances, despite the less pronounced seasonality. The Lauraceae play an essential ecological role in Macaronesian natural forests. An example is Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco, a relevant species given its high frequency and physiognomic dominance in Azorean laurel forests. This study aims to quantify climate–growth relationships in L. azorica using a dendroecological approach. We sampled four stands at São Miguel and two stands at Terceira islands, for a total of 206 trees. Following standard dendrochronological methods and rigorous sample selection procedures, we obtained relatively low rbar values and high temporal autocorrelation. Using a stepwise Random Forest analysis followed by Generalized Linear Models calculation, we found prominent effects of present and previous year temperature, but a low precipitation signal on growth rings, with some model variation between stands. Our results agreed with previous observations for broad-leaved species with diffuse porous wood, contributing to increase the baseline dendroecological knowledge about Azorean forests. Due to the high levels of within- and between-stand variation, and to refine the climatic signal analysis, complementary approaches should be explored in the future. Azores dendroclimatology generalized linear models laurel forest Macaronesia random forest Azori dendroklimatologija posplošeni linearni modeli gozdovi lovorovk Makaronezija naključni gozdovi true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Neznano 2023-01-18 09:33:35 2023-01-18 09:33:36 2023-02-18 03:34:50 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 18. 1. 2023; 22 str. iss. 2, [article no.] 166 Vol. 14 17. January 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630* 1999-4907 10.3390/f14020166 138284803 https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/2/166 1 ced96973-970a-11ed-b359-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=21375 forests-14-00166.pdf forests-14-00166.pdf 1 873BB0B57117E6A1FB14D88FBF836EE2 337991a0491e45a922413f306606f2c94e046c14f530ef362236f2b94df18797 03e49371-970b-11ed-b359-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=21376 Gozdarski inštitut Slovenije 0 0 0