Fuente: PubMed "Ecological production" Sci Total Environ. 2024 Dec 15;956:177400. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177400. Epub 2024 Nov 7.ABSTRACTGlobal warming has induced an increase in the intensity and frequency of summer extreme high temperature events in Chinese subtropical forest, which contributes to a large component of net primary ecological production among global forests. However, how summer extreme high temperature events would influence tree radial growth in these humid subtropical forest remains unclear. We investigated the non-linear response of tree radial growth to temperature, soil moisture and their mixed effect across broad latitude gradients in Chinese subtropical forests, using a method of modelling cambial growth kinetics of Schima superba. The results showed that radial growth was constrained by summer extreme high temperatures and this limiting effect relieved from south to north. However, we also found a growth constraint imposed by soil moisture during spring and autumn, which intensified toward northern sites. Coincidentally, the radial growth pattern showed a distinct transition from bimodal to unimodal from South to North sites, with no significant changes in cambium phenology over the time scale from 1986 to 2014 being observed. In general, we determined that limitation of extreme high temperatures on radial growth relieve with increasing latitude in subtropics. This study provides a theoretical basis for promoting the accurate assessment of carbon sink potential and for predicting future forest dynamics in subtropics.PMID:39505033 | DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177400