Vitality responses of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) to temperature variations along an urban-rural gradient
Documentation of the data | R script may be applied to aggregated data set | |
Additional geographical or spatial references | Saxony | |
Countries to which the data refer | GERMANY | |
References to related material | State soil maps, DGM | |
Description of the data | Plot-wise tree vitality and climate data, variable dictionary, R script | |
Type of the data | Text | |
Type of the data | Dataset | |
Type of the data | Model | |
Total size of the dataset | 89432 | |
Author | Bischoff, Maik | |
Author | Körner, Michael | |
Author | Cierjacks, Arne Rüdiger | |
Upload date | 2026-11-10T15:42:31Z | |
Publication date | 2026-11-10T15:42:31Z | |
Data of data creation | 2024-07-31 | |
Publication date | 2026-11-10 | |
Abstract of the dataset | We examined vitality responses of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) across a natural temperature gradient from cooler rural to warmer urban lowland sites in eastern Germany, using a space-for-time approach. Temperature responses were determined based on five complementary vitality indicators – crown transparency, needle chlorosis, needle length, shoot length, and leader deformation – across three age classes. | |
Public reference to this page | https://opara.zih.tu-dresden.de/handle/123456789/2915 | |
Public reference to this page | https://doi.org/10.25532/OPARA-1563 | |
Publisher | Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden | |
Licence | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
URI of the licence text | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
Specification of the discipline(s) | 3 | |
Title of the dataset | Vitality responses of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) to temperature variations along an urban-rural gradient | |
Research instruments | Binocular | |
Underlying research object | Tree | |
Software | R | |
Project abstract | Climate warming is increasingly altering forest vitality, yet growth-based metrics alone may obscure early signs of stress, particularly in long-lived tree species. We assessed how mean annual temperature influences Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) vitality beyond growth-based metrics by quantifying age-dependent responses of multiple physiological and structural indicators under real-world warming conditions. We examined responses across a natural temperature gradient from cooler rural to warmer urban lowland sites in eastern Germany, using a space-for-time approach. Temperature responses were determined based on five complementary vitality indicators – crown transparency, needle chlorosis, needle length, shoot length, and leader deformation – across three age classes. | |
Project title | Climate change effects on a drought-resilient species: Vitality responses of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) to temperature variations along an urban-rural gradient in Central Europe |
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