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Crown defoliation decreases reproduction and wood growth in a marginal European beech population

View ORCID ProfileSylvie Oddou-Muratorio, Cathleen Petit-Cailleux, Valentin Journé, Matthieu Lingrand, Jean-André Magdalou, Christophe Hurson, Joseph Garrigue, Hendrik Davi, Elodie Magnanou
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/474874
Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio
1URFM, INRA, 84000 Avignon, France
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Cathleen Petit-Cailleux
1URFM, INRA, 84000 Avignon, France
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Valentin Journé
1URFM, INRA, 84000 Avignon, France
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Matthieu Lingrand
1URFM, INRA, 84000 Avignon, France
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Jean-André Magdalou
2Réserve Naturelle Nationale de la forêt de la Massane – France
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Christophe Hurson
3Fédération des Réserves Naturelles Catalanes – France
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Joseph Garrigue
2Réserve Naturelle Nationale de la forêt de la Massane – France
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Hendrik Davi
1URFM, INRA, 84000 Avignon, France
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Elodie Magnanou
2Réserve Naturelle Nationale de la forêt de la Massane – France
4Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Biologie Intégrative des Organismes Marins (BIOM), Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650, Banyuls/Mer, France
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  1. Abiotic and biotic stresses related to climate change have been associated to increased crown defoliation, decreased growth and a higher risk of mortality in many forest tree species, but the impact of stresses on tree reproduction and forest regeneration remains understudied. At dry, warm margin of species distributions, flowering, pollination and seed maturation processes are expected to be affected by drought, late frost and other stresses, eventually resulting in reproduction failure. Moreover, inter-individual variations in reproductive performances versus other performances (growth, survival) could have important consequences on population’s dynamics.

  2. We investigated the relationships between individual crown defoliation, growth and reproduction in a drought-prone population of European beech, Fagus sylvatica. We used a spatially explicit mating model and marker-based parentage analyses to estimate effective female and male fecundities of 432 reproductive trees, which were also monitored for basal area increment and crown defoliation over nine years.

  3. Female and male fecundities markedly varied among individuals, more than did growth. Both female fecundity and growth decreased with increasing crown defoliation and competition and increased with size. Male fecundity only responded to competition, and decreased with increasing competition. Moreover, the negative effect of defoliation on female fecundity was size-dependent, with a slower decline in female fecundity with increasing defoliation for the large individuals. Finally, a trade-off between growth and female fecundity was observed in response to defoliation: some large trees maintained significant female fecundity at the expense of reduced growth in response to defoliation, while some other defoliated trees rather maintained high growth at the expense of reduced female fecundity.

  4. Synthesis. Our results suggest that while decreasing their growth, some large defoliated trees still contribute to reproduction through seed production and pollination. This non-coordinated decline of growth and fecundity at individual-level in response to stress may compromise the evolution of stress-resistance traits at population level, and increase forest tree vulnerability.

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  • Version 4 of this preprint has been peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Ecology (https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100033).

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Crown defoliation decreases reproduction and wood growth in a marginal European beech population
Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio, Cathleen Petit-Cailleux, Valentin Journé, Matthieu Lingrand, Jean-André Magdalou, Christophe Hurson, Joseph Garrigue, Hendrik Davi, Elodie Magnanou
bioRxiv 474874; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/474874
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Crown defoliation decreases reproduction and wood growth in a marginal European beech population
Sylvie Oddou-Muratorio, Cathleen Petit-Cailleux, Valentin Journé, Matthieu Lingrand, Jean-André Magdalou, Christophe Hurson, Joseph Garrigue, Hendrik Davi, Elodie Magnanou
bioRxiv 474874; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/474874

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