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February 9, 2025
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Timing of Drought and Severity of Induced Leaf Desiccation Affect Recovery, Growth and Autumnal Leaf Senescence in Fagus sylvatica L. Saplings

Publicated to:Forests. 16 (1): 5- - 2025-01-01 16(1), DOI: 10.3390/f16010005

Authors: Mijnsbrugge, Kristine Vander; Bollen, Mattias; Moreels, Stefaan; Notivol Paino, Eduardo; Vandekerkhove, Kris; De Keersmaeker, Luc; Thomaes, Arno; Verdonck, Sanne; Vanhellemont, Margot

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Agrifood Res & Technol Ctr Aragon CITA, Dept Environm Agr & Forest Syst, Zaragoza 50059, Spain - Author
Res Inst Nat & Forest INBO, Res Grp Forest Ecol & Management, Gaverstr 4, B-9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium - Author

Abstract

Increased water limitations due to climate change will pose severe challenges to forest ecosystems in Europe. We investigated the response of potted saplings of Fagus sylvatica L., one of the major European tree species, to a spring and a summer water-withholding period with control-control (C-C), control-drought (C-D), drought-control (D-C) and drought-drought (D-D) treatments. We focused on recovery capacity and phenological and growth traits and questioned the extent to which an earlier drought influenced the response to a second drought in the same growing season. To examine the impact of the level of drought stress, a distinction was made between saplings with less or more than half of their leaves desiccated due to the spring drought (D50). The timing of the drought influenced the immediate post-drought response: saplings severely affected by the spring drought (D>50) resprouted, whereas saplings severely affected by the summer drought (C-D and D50-C and D>50-D), which may enable the repair of damaged tissues. The saplings that were less affected by the spring drought (D

Keywords

Autumnal leaf phenologyBeechClean water and sanitationClorofilasEstrés de sequiaFagus sylvaticaFenologíaMemorRebroteRecurrent drought stressRelative chlorophyll contentResproutinResproutingStressSummer drought

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Forests due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 21/89, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Forestry.

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 6.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 6 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.5.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 6 - Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, with a probability of 68% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Belgium.