IMPACT OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT ON TREE-RING DYNAMICS OF SCOTS PINE (PINUS SYLVESTRIS L.)

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Lukin Vitaliy Vasil’evich – PhD (Biology), Leading Researcher, the Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Dendrochronology. V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (27, Akademicheskaya str., 220072, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: lukin.vitali04@gmail.com

Knysh Natalia Valer’evna – Researcher. PA “Botanical Society” (27, Akademicheskaya str., 220072, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: knyshnv@gmail.com

Yermokhin Maxim Valer’evich – PhD (Biology). PA “Botanical Society” (27, Akademicheskaya str., 220072, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: maxim.yermokhin@gmail.com

Barsukova Tatiana Leonidovna – PhD (Agriculture), Leading Researcher, the Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Dendrochronology. V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (27, Akademicheskaya str., 220072, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: barsukovatl@yandex.ru

Saveliev Vasiliy Vasil’evich – PhD (Biology), Senior Researcher, the Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Dendrochronology. V. F. Kuprevich Institute of Experimental Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (27, Akademicheskaya str., 220072, Minsk, Republic of Belarus).

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2519-402X-2024-282-2.

 

Key words: Scots pine, tree ring width, climate, town.

For citation: Lukin V. V., Knysh N. V., Yermokhin M. V., Barsukova T. L., Saveliev V. V. Impact of the urban heat island effect on tree-ring dynamics of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Proceedings of BSTU, issue 1, Forestry. Nature Management. Processing of Renewable Resources, 2024, no. 2 (282), pp. 13–20 (In Russian). DOI: 10.52065/2519-402X-2024-282-2.

 

Abstract

The active development of urbanized territories causes a change in the local climate and last impact to the growth and development of trees. The results of a study of the impact of the so-called “urban heat island” effect on the dynamics of tree-rings of Scots pine growing in the forest park “Slepyanka” in Minsk are presents. The active growth of the city and the development of large industrial enterprises began in the post the Second World War years. By the 1960s, the Minsk weather station, which was previously located outside the city, found itself on its border, and by the 1980s – within the city. At the same time, a large forest area has been preserved not far from it. The control object is pine trees growing in the same type of forest and of a similar age on the territory of the Pukhovichi forestry enterprise not so far from the Maryina Gorka weather station, located 60 km to the southwest of Minsk. Urban warming has increased radial growth by 9 to 16% compared to control stands since the 1980s. However, trees become more sensitive to summer droughts and the relationship between radial growth and winter-early spring air temperatures increases. The results confirm that global warming can increase the productivity of pine forest in Belarus but make them more susceptible to unfavorable climatic factors. This makes it possible to use trees that grow in large urban forest parks to predict changes in the productivity and sustainability of forest stands outside the city in the same region with further climate change.

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