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By signing up, you agree that we may process your information in accordance with these terms. Menopause brain fog: Top tips to beat memory loss. This, my dear friends, is what the menopause does to you. In the area of the Polish—Czech—German borderland, the effects of environmental acidification and deforestation as a consequence reached the scale of the ecological calamity Elling et al.
Therefore, at present it is possible to observe not only the changes related to the forest damage, but also how the forests return to the vitality. It is generally accepted that exposure to pollutants negatively affects tree functioning in different ways Caporn ; Emberson In order to determine the impact of air pollution on cambium activity, samples of Picea abies wood were analyzed and compared between three groups of locations, differing in levels of air pollution intensity.
This therefore enabled changes over time in wood structure to be compared. A reduction in annual ring width is a known response to high pollution levels, especially when trees grow near the pollutant source as was observed in Germany, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Poland. Our results Fig. In case of reference Group A which is placed in a large distance from pollutant emission sources, the reductions were not observed even in high elevated slopes exposed to the west and northwest.
This concerned sites at the westernmost and northwesternmost edges of the Sudetes and Moravian—Silesian Beskids, which were also well exposed to the advection of air from the W—NW sector Group C. The location of these sites on the NW edge of the Sudetes, i. The understanding of the reasons and the course of changes is facilitated by information on spatial diversity of the exposure time of the trees to heavily polluted atmospheric water. The lower tree-ring reduction here was related to the gradual depletion and partial removal of pollutants by an air mass infiltrating the mountain region along a WNW—ESE profile.
This results in a systematic reduction in wet deposition efficiency, and in reduced fog deposition; the latter is caused by a gradual rise in the orographic cloud base, as well as a reduction in both cloud liquid water content and the cloud pollutant load it transports. This is also confirmed by the lack of deforestation observed in the Eastern Carpathians Group A. On contrary, other authors observe modifications to latewood tracheids, resulting in decreases in wood density affected also mainly by sulfur dioxide in Ireland and Germany Evertsen et al.
The severe destruction of trees located in highly polluted areas subjected to intense fog pollutant deposition was also manifested in missing rings and the formation of traumatic resin ducts.
The final width of annual rings is an outcome of two interrelated processes. The first of these is cambium divisional activity: the number of wood cells formed during the vegetative season directly relates to the number of periclinal divisions of cambial cells.
The second process relies on cell size, which is related to the growth and differentiation of wood cells produced in a particular annual ring Aloni ; Wodzicki Both these processes were shown to be impaired during formation of the narrowest wood rings.
Decreasing numbers of cambial cell divisions resulted in a reduced number of tracheids. Simultaneously, the narrowest cells originated because wood cell growth was limited in the radial direction, as noted by de Kort et al. The reduction in pollution emissions in the mids translated into a systematic improvement in forest conditions at all sites, frequently reaching the level recorded in the reference period; this indicated the ability of trees to return to previous vitality levels, as has been observed in different tree species growing, e.
Both the earlier decline and present increase in health are significantly spatially diverse. The processes by which annual ring width increases and decreases respond sufficiently quickly to environmental stimuli to act as an important indicator of forest ecosystem degradation. In our study, Norway spruce showed a tendency for broadening of annual rings and wood cell parameters in —, corresponding to improving environmental conditions.
In this case, after only moderate decrease of wood parameters in —, there was a significant increase in the earlywood cell parameters in —, possibly resulting from the cessation of intensive pollution. In addition, climate warming may induce secondary growth, especially in trees growing at high altitudes Sidor et al. Both these factors may be responsible for the intensification of secondary growth observed in our samples.
We are aware that ring width is affected not only by air pollution but also by environmental factors, such as drought, frost, precipitation, etc. Ferretti et al. However, by comparing the anatomical data with the results of a broader dendrochronological analysis of over cores, we were able to exclude these other factors from the analysis of significant reductions in ring width growth. The consequences of air pollution for forests in the mountainous regions of Central Europe clearly seem to be limited in time and space, because of the spatial pattern of pollutant deposition with dominant role of fog deposition.
The reduction in cambial activity manifested by narrow annual tree rings is a known feature of highly polluted areas.
Our research confirmed the negative impact of air pollutants on cambium activity and secondary wood formation in Norway spruce. Moreover, during the period of highest pollutant emissions, distinct reductions in these parameters were observed at sites with the highest frequency of severely acidified fog. Simultaneously, in highly polluted locations but with limited fog occurrence, where trees more often remained below the cloud base, there was a less clear reduction in annual wood increments.
The findings therefore indicated the role of the pollutant deposition pathway, i. Consequently, the reduction in the number and thickness of tracheids formed during the vegetative season results in the formation of narrow annual rings. We thank the Editage service for English corrections. This study was supported by the research project no. We thank the two anonymous reviewers for extensive revision of our manuscript and useful comments allowing to improve a quality of the article.
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First Online: 16 January Introduction The Sudetes, a mountain range in southwestern Poland, are characterized by Norway spruce Picea abies forest ecosystems. The aim of the present work was therefore to determine differences in tree growth impairment related to spatial and temporal differences in pollutant deposition at the studied areas, and to answer the following sequence of questions: Does the high level of pollutant deposition result in decreases in tree-ring width, and in other changes in the secondary xylem?
Selection of locations and climate conditions Research was performed on Norway spruce Picea abies growing in three mountain ranges: the Sudetes, the Western Carpathians and the Eastern Carpathians Fig.