20.500.12556/RUL-168370 Dominance of Fagus sylvatica in the growing stock and its relationship to climate an analysis using modeled stand-level climate data In the future, climate change is expected to affect the spatial distribution of most tree species in Europe. The European beech (Fagus sylvatica), a drought-sensitive tree species, is currently distributed throughout Europe, where it is an ecologically and economically important species. In Slovenia, the European beech represents 33% of the growing stock, but such a proportion greatly varies across Europe. Whether such a variation is related to the climate environmental gradients or because of historical or management decisions is an as-yet unexplored question. For this study, we employed the Slovenian Forests Service inventory, where the proportion of beech in the forest stock has been monitored in 341,341 forest stands across the country. Modeled climate data from the SLOCLIM database, calculated for each of the stands, was also used to test the hypothesis that although beech forests have always been influenced by human activity, the dominance of beech trees in forest stands is at least partially dictated by the climate. The results showed the distribution of the main climate variables (annual precipitation, the share of summer and spring precipitation, and annual maximum and minimum temperatures) and how they affect the current dominance of beech trees at the stand level. Due to the large number and variability of forest stands studied, the results should be transferable to better understand and manage the climatic suitability and risks of Fagus sylvatica. The modeled data is publicly available in the web repository Zenodo. climate inventory data Fagus sylvatica climatic suitability climate modeling podnebje inventurni podatki bukev podnebna primernost podnebno modeliranje true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-04-10 12:57:12 2025-04-10 12:57:17 2025-04-11 04:18:10 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 17 str. (2358) iss. 19 Vol. 11 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2022-01-01 630*8 2223-7747 10.3390/plants11192541 123771395 RAZ_Skrk_Dolar_Nina_2022.pdf RAZ_Skrk_Dolar_Nina_2022.pdf 1 64D0FB62E3C25311B3353D2EB7F80331 e254a4f079d5e0574f4273d478dbc7dfaac9ddf7d56c266c721ef74097c48ddf 462cc52c-15fa-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201727 https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/19/2541 1 79f1aa3e-15f9-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201725 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0