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Effect of climate change on net primary productivity of Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) at different successional  stages of broad-leaved Korean pine forest.

QIU Yang, GAO Lu-shuang, ZHANG Xue, GUO Jing, MA Zhi-yuan   

  1. (Key Laboratory for Forest Resources & Ecosystem Processes of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China)
  • Online:2014-07-18 Published:2014-07-18

Abstract: Pinus koraiensis in broadleaved Korean pine forests of Changbai Mountain at different successional stages (secondary poplarbirch forest, secondary coniferous and broadleaved forest and the primitive Korean pine forest) were selected in this paper as the research objects. In this research, the annual growth of net primary productivity (NPP) (1921-2006) of P. koraiensis was obtained by combining the treering chronology and relative growth formulae, the correlation between NPP of P. koraiensis and climatic factors was developed, and the annual growth of NPP of P. koraiensis at different successional stages in relation to climatic variation within different climate periods were analyzed. The results showed that, in the research period, the correlations between climatic factors and NPP of P. koraiensis at different successional stages were different. With increasing the temperature, the correlations between NPP of P. koraiensis in the secondary poplarbirch forest and the minimum temperatures of previous and current growing seasons changed from being significantly negative  to being significantly positive. The positive correlation between NPP of P. koraiensis in the secondary coniferous and broadleaved forest and the minimum temperature in current spring changed into significantly positive correlation  between NPP of P. koraiensis and the temperatures in previous and current growing seasons. The climatic factors had a stronger hysteresis effect on NPP of P. koraiensis in the secondary coniferous and broad-leaved forest, but NPP of P. koraiensis in the primitive Korean pine forest had weaker correlation with temperature but stronger positive correlation  with the precipitation of previous growing season. The increases of minimum and mean temperatures were obvious, but no significant variations of the maximum temperature and precipitation were observed at our site. The climatic variation facilitated the increase of the NPP of P. koraiensis in the secondary poplarbirch forest at the initial successional stage and in secondary coniferous and broad-leaved forest  at the  intermediate successional stage, and this effect was especially obvious for the secondary coniferous and broad-leaved forest, but very small for the primitive Korean pine forest which was at the climax phase.