Does drought advance the onset of autumn leaf senescence in temperate deciduous forest trees?

Mariën, Bertold; Dox, Inge; De Boeck, Hans J.; Willems, Patrick; Leys, Sebastien; Papadimitriou, Dimitri; Campioli, Matteo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3309-2021

Articles | Volume 18, issue 11

Biogeosciences, 18, 3309–3330, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3309-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Biogeosciences, 18, 3309–3330, 2021

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3309-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 11

Research article 04 Jun 2021

Research article | 04 Jun 2021

Does drought advance the onset of autumn leaf senescence in temperate deciduous forest trees?

Bertold Mariën et al.

Data sets

Does drought advance the onset of autumn leaf senescence in temperature deciduous forest trees: data and R scripts Bertold Mariën, Inge Dox, Hans J. De Boeck, Patrick Willems, Sebastien Leys, Dimitri Papadimitriou, and Matteo Campioli https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4559535

Short summary

The drivers of the onset of autumn leaf senescence for several deciduous tree species are still unclear. Therefore, we addressed (i) if drought impacts the timing of autumn leaf senescence and (ii) if the relationship between drought and autumn leaf senescence depends on the tree species. Our study suggests that the timing of autumn leaf senescence is conservative across years and species and even independent of drought stress.