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Jevšenak J, Klisz M, Mašek J, Čada V, Janda P, Svoboda M, Vostarek O, Treml V, van der Maaten E, Popa A, Popa I, van der Maaten-Theunissen M, Zlatanov T, Scharnweber T, Ahlgrimm S, Stolz J, Sochová I, Roibu CC, Pretzsch H, Schmied G, Uhl E, Kaczka R, Wrzesiński P, Šenfeldr M, Jakubowski M, Tumajer J, Wilmking M, Obojes N, Rybníček M, Lévesque M, Potapov A, Basu S, Stojanović M, Stjepanović S, Vitas A, Arnič D, Metslaid S, Neycken A, Prislan P, Hartl C, Ziche D, Horáček P, Krejza J, Mikhailov S, Světlík J, Kalisty A, Kolář T, Lavnyy V, Hordo M, Oberhuber W, Levanič T, Mészáros I, Schneider L, Lehejček J, Shetti R, Bošeľa M, Copini P, Koprowski M, Sass-Klaassen U, Izmir ŞC, Bakys R, Entner H, Esper J, Janecka K, Martinez Del Castillo E, Verbylaite R, Árvai M, de Sauvage JC, Čufar K, Finner M, Hilmers T, Kern Z, Novak K, Ponjarac R, Puchałka R, Schuldt B, Škrk Dolar N, Tanovski V, Zang C, Žmegač A, Kuithan C, Metslaid M, Thurm E, Hafner P, Krajnc L, Bernabei M, Bojić S, Brus R, Burger A, D'Andrea E, Đorem T, Gławęda M, Gričar J, Gutalj M, Horváth E, Kostić S, Matović B, Merela M, Miletić B, Morgós A, Paluch R, Pilch K, Rezaie N, Rieder J, Schwab N, Sewerniak P, Stojanović D, Ullmann T, Waszak N, Zin E, Skudnik M, Oštir K, Rammig A, Buras A. Incorporating high-resolution climate, remote sensing and topographic data to map annual forest growth in central and eastern Europe. Sci Total Environ 2024; 913:169692. [PMID: 38160816 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/24/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
Abstract
To enhance our understanding of forest carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation and drought impact on forest ecosystems, the availability of high-resolution annual forest growth maps based on tree-ring width (TRW) would provide a significant advancement to the field. Site-specific characteristics, which can be approximated by high-resolution Earth observation by satellites (EOS), emerge as crucial drivers of forest growth, influencing how climate translates into tree growth. EOS provides information on surface reflectance related to forest characteristics and thus can potentially improve the accuracy of forest growth models based on TRW. Through the modelling of TRW using EOS, climate and topography data, we showed that species-specific models can explain up to 52 % of model variance (Quercus petraea), while combining different species results in relatively poor model performance (R2 = 13 %). The integration of EOS into models based solely on climate and elevation data improved the explained variance by 6 % on average. Leveraging these insights, we successfully generated a map of annual TRW for the year 2021. We employed the area of applicability (AOA) approach to delineate the range in which our models are deemed valid. The calculated AOA for the established forest-type models was 73 % of the study region, indicating robust spatial applicability. Notably, unreliable predictions predominantly occurred in the climate margins of our dataset. In conclusion, our large-scale assessment underscores the efficacy of combining climate, EOS and topographic data to develop robust models for mapping annual TRW. This research not only fills a critical void in the current understanding of forest growth dynamics but also highlights the potential of integrated data sources for comprehensive ecosystem assessments.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jernej Jevšenak
- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia.
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Silviculture and Forest Tree Genetics, Forest Research Institute, Poland
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea", Romania; Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
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- National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea", Romania
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, Germany; Department of Forest Planning/Forest Research/Information Systems, Research Unit Silviculture and Forest Growth, Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Forest Biometrics Laboratory, Faculty of Forestry, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Bavarian State Institute of Forestry, Germany
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Silviculture and Forest Tree Genetics, Forest Research Institute, Poland
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Utilisation, Faculty of Forest and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Poland
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- Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Czech Republic
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Silviculture Group, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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- Chair of Forest and Land Management and Wood Processing Technologies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department for Forest Technique and Economics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Chair of Forest and Land Management and Wood Processing Technologies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Silviculture Group, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department for Forest Technique and Economics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Nature Rings - Environmental Research and Education, Germany; Panel on Planetary Thinking, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
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- Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Wood Science and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
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- Department of Silviculture, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Ukraine
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- Chair of Forest and Land Management and Wood Processing Technologies, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia; Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, University of Primorska, Slovenia
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Hungary
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- Department of Geography, Justus-Liebig-University, Germany
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- Department of Environment, Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic
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- Department of Environment, Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Management Planning and Informatics, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management (FEM), Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
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- Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland; Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management (FEM), Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands; van Hall Larenstein Applied University, the Netherlands
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- Department of Forest Botany, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Turkey
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- Department of Forestry, Kaunas Forestry and Environmental Engineering University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Geography, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany; Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA), Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
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- Institute for Soil Sciences, HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungary
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungary; CSFK, MTA Centre of Excellence, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland; Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Hans Em, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius, University in Skopje, North Macedonia
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Department of Forestry, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany; Department of Forestry, University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf, Germany
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, Germany
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- Institute of Forestry and Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia
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- Department of Forest Planning/Forest Research/Information Systems, Research Unit Silviculture and Forest Growth, Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
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- Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council, Italy
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- DendroGreif, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University, Germany
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- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy; National Biodiversity Future Centre - NBFC, Italy
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Stefan Żeromski High School No 2 with Bilingual Departments in Sieradz, Poland
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- Department of Forest Physiology and Genetics, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute (IBL), Poland
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute (IBL), Poland
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- Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
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- Centre for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), Institute of Geography, Universität Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Soil Science and Landscape Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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- Department of Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Würzburg, Germany
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- Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
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- Dendrolab IBL, Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute (IBL), Poland; Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden
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- Department for Forest and Landscape Planning and Monitoring, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia; Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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- TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Germany
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Zweifel R, Pappas C, Peters RL, Babst F, Balanzategui D, Basler D, Bastos A, Beloiu M, Buchmann N, Bose AK, Braun S, Damm A, D'Odorico P, Eitel JUH, Etzold S, Fonti P, Rouholahnejad Freund E, Gessler A, Haeni M, Hoch G, Kahmen A, Körner C, Krejza J, Krumm F, Leuchner M, Leuschner C, Lukovic M, Martínez-Vilalta J, Matula R, Meesenburg H, Meir P, Plichta R, Poyatos R, Rohner B, Ruehr N, Salomón RL, Scharnweber T, Schaub M, Steger DN, Steppe K, Still C, Stojanović M, Trotsiuk V, Vitasse Y, von Arx G, Wilmking M, Zahnd C, Sterck F. Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring - A white paper. Sci Total Environ 2023; 872:162167. [PMID: 36775147 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2022] [Revised: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Forests account for nearly 90 % of the world's terrestrial biomass in the form of carbon and they support 80 % of the global biodiversity. To understand the underlying forest dynamics, we need a long-term but also relatively high-frequency, networked monitoring system, as traditionally used in meteorology or hydrology. While there are numerous existing forest monitoring sites, particularly in temperate regions, the resulting data streams are rarely connected and do not provide information promptly, which hampers real-time assessments of forest responses to extreme climate events. The technology to build a better global forest monitoring network now exists. This white paper addresses the key structural components needed to achieve a novel meta-network. We propose to complement - rather than replace or unify - the existing heterogeneous infrastructure with standardized, quality-assured linking methods and interacting data processing centers to create an integrated forest monitoring network. These automated (research topic-dependent) linking methods in atmosphere, biosphere, and pedosphere play a key role in scaling site-specific results and processing them in a timely manner. To ensure broad participation from existing monitoring sites and to establish new sites, these linking methods must be as informative, reliable, affordable, and maintainable as possible, and should be supplemented by near real-time remote sensing data. The proposed novel meta-network will enable the detection of emergent patterns that would not be visible from isolated analyses of individual sites. In addition, the near real-time availability of data will facilitate predictions of current forest conditions (nowcasts), which are urgently needed for research and decision making in the face of rapid climate change. We call for international and interdisciplinary efforts in this direction.
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- Roman Zweifel
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Rio, Patras 26504, Greece.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1064 E Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, 1215 E Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
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- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Wissenschaftpark "Albert Einstein", Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany; Geography Department, Humboldt University of Berlin, Rudower Ch 16, 12489 Berlin, DE, USA.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland; Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Dept. of Biogeochemical Integration, Hans Knöll Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany.
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- Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Universitätstr. 2, LFW C56, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland; Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh.
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- Institute for Applied Plant Biology, Benkenstrasse 254A, 4108 Witterswil, Switzerland.
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- Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland; Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology, Surface Waters - Research and Management, Ueberlandstrasse 133, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Department of Natural Resource and Society, University of Idaho, 1800 University Lane, 83638 McCall, ID, USA.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Bělidla 4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Department of Physical Geography and Climatology, Institute of Geography, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany.
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- Plant Ecology, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
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- Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland.
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- CREAF, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Valles), Catalonia E08193, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Valles), Catalonia E08193, Spain.
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Praha 6, Suchdol 16521, Czech Republic.
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- Northwest German Forest Research Institute, Grätzelstr. 2, D-37079 Göttingen, Germany.
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- School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Alexander Crum Brown Road, Edinburgh EH93FF, UK.
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- CREAF, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Valles), Catalonia E08193, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Valles), Catalonia E08193, Spain.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467, Germany.
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- Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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- DendroGreif, University Greifswald, Soldmannstrasse 15, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
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- Forest Ecosystems and Society Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Bělidla 4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland.
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland; Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
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- DendroGreif, University Greifswald, Soldmannstrasse 15, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University and Research, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, the Netherlands.
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Mahnken M, Cailleret M, Collalti A, Trotta C, Biondo C, D'Andrea E, Dalmonech D, Marano G, Mäkelä A, Minunno F, Peltoniemi M, Trotsiuk V, Nadal-Sala D, Sabaté S, Vallet P, Aussenac R, Cameron DR, Bohn FJ, Grote R, Augustynczik ALD, Yousefpour R, Huber N, Bugmann H, Merganičová K, Merganic J, Valent P, Lasch-Born P, Hartig F, Vega Del Valle ID, Volkholz J, Gutsch M, Matteucci G, Krejza J, Ibrom A, Meesenburg H, Rötzer T, van der Maaten-Theunissen M, van der Maaten E, Reyer CPO. Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models. Glob Chang Biol 2022; 28:6921-6943. [PMID: 36117412 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2022] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Forest models are instrumental for understanding and projecting the impact of climate change on forests. A considerable number of forest models have been developed in the last decades. However, few systematic and comprehensive model comparisons have been performed in Europe that combine an evaluation of modelled carbon and water fluxes and forest structure. We evaluate 13 widely used, state-of-the-art, stand-scale forest models against field measurements of forest structure and eddy-covariance data of carbon and water fluxes over multiple decades across an environmental gradient at nine typical European forest stands. We test the models' performance in three dimensions: accuracy of local predictions (agreement of modelled and observed annual data), realism of environmental responses (agreement of modelled and observed responses of daily gross primary productivity to temperature, radiation and vapour pressure deficit) and general applicability (proportion of European tree species covered). We find that multiple models are available that excel according to our three dimensions of model performance. For the accuracy of local predictions, variables related to forest structure have lower random and systematic errors than annual carbon and water flux variables. Moreover, the multi-model ensemble mean provided overall more realistic daily productivity responses to environmental drivers across all sites than any single individual model. The general applicability of the models is high, as almost all models are currently able to cover Europe's common tree species. We show that forest models complement each other in their response to environmental drivers and that there are several cases in which individual models outperform the model ensemble. Our framework provides a first step to capturing essential differences between forest models that go beyond the most commonly used accuracy of predictions. Overall, this study provides a point of reference for future model work aimed at predicting climate impacts and supporting climate mitigation and adaptation measures in forests.
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- Mats Mahnken
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
- Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, Tharandt, Germany
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- UMR RECOVER, INRAE, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Forest Dynamics Unit, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest Modelling Lab, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), Perugia, Italy
- Department of Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
- Division Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Viterbo, Italy
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- Department of Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
- Division Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Viterbo, Italy
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- Department of Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
- Division Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Viterbo, Italy
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- Forest Modelling Lab, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), Perugia, Italy
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- Forest Modelling Lab, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), Perugia, Italy
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- Forest Modelling Lab, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), Perugia, Italy
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Forest Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Forest Sciences, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) and Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Forest Sciences, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) and Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Forest Dynamics Unit, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
- Ecology Section, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Ecology Section, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
- CREAF (Center for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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- LESSEM, INRAE, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, St-Martin-d'Hères, France
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- UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, Midlothian, UK
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- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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- Forestry Economics and Forest Planning, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Institute of Forestry and Conservation, John Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Forest Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Remote Sensing, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Forest Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Praha, Czech Republic
- Department of Biodiversity of Ecosystems and Landscape, Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Nitra, Slovakia
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovak Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovak Republic
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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- Theoretical Ecology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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- Forest Modelling Lab, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), Perugia, Italy
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark
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- Forest Growth and Yield Science, TU München, Freising, Germany
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Leibniz Association, Potsdam, Germany
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Salomón RL, Peters RL, Zweifel R, Sass-Klaassen UGW, Stegehuis AI, Smiljanic M, Poyatos R, Babst F, Cienciala E, Fonti P, Lerink BJW, Lindner M, Martinez-Vilalta J, Mencuccini M, Nabuurs GJ, van der Maaten E, von Arx G, Bär A, Akhmetzyanov L, Balanzategui D, Bellan M, Bendix J, Berveiller D, Blaženec M, Čada V, Carraro V, Cecchini S, Chan T, Conedera M, Delpierre N, Delzon S, Ditmarová Ľ, Dolezal J, Dufrêne E, Edvardsson J, Ehekircher S, Forner A, Frouz J, Ganthaler A, Gryc V, Güney A, Heinrich I, Hentschel R, Janda P, Ježík M, Kahle HP, Knüsel S, Krejza J, Kuberski Ł, Kučera J, Lebourgeois F, Mikoláš M, Matula R, Mayr S, Oberhuber W, Obojes N, Osborne B, Paljakka T, Plichta R, Rabbel I, Rathgeber CBK, Salmon Y, Saunders M, Scharnweber T, Sitková Z, Stangler DF, Stereńczak K, Stojanović M, Střelcová K, Světlík J, Svoboda M, Tobin B, Trotsiuk V, Urban J, Valladares F, Vavrčík H, Vejpustková M, Walthert L, Wilmking M, Zin E, Zou J, Steppe K. The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests. Nat Commun 2022; 13:28. [PMID: 35013178 PMCID: PMC8748979 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27579-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
Heatwaves exert disproportionately strong and sometimes irreversible impacts on forest ecosystems. These impacts remain poorly understood at the tree and species level and across large spatial scales. Here, we investigate the effects of the record-breaking 2018 European heatwave on tree growth and tree water status using a collection of high-temporal resolution dendrometer data from 21 species across 53 sites. Relative to the two preceding years, annual stem growth was not consistently reduced by the 2018 heatwave but stems experienced twice the temporary shrinkage due to depletion of water reserves. Conifer species were less capable of rehydrating overnight than broadleaves across gradients of soil and atmospheric drought, suggesting less resilience toward transient stress. In particular, Norway spruce and Scots pine experienced extensive stem dehydration. Our high-resolution dendrometer network was suitable to disentangle the effects of a severe heatwave on tree growth and desiccation at large-spatial scales in situ, and provided insights on which species may be more vulnerable to climate extremes.
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- Roberto L Salomón
- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
- Grupo de Investigación Sistemas Naturales e Historia Forestal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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- European Forest Institute, Resilience Programme, 53113, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- DendroGreif, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
- Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
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- IFER-Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, 254 01, Jilove u Prahy, Czech Republic
- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- European Forest Institute, Resilience Programme, 53113, Bonn, Germany
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
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- CREAF, E08193, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalonia, Spain
- ICREA, 08010, Barcelona, Spain
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
- Wageningen Environmental Research, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Woody Biomass Production, TU Dresden, 01737, Tharandt, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Forest Ecology and Forest Management, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473, Potsdam, Germany
- Geography Department, Humboldt University, 12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing (LCRS), Faculty of Geography, 35032, Marburg, Germany
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 96053, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Office National des Forêts, Département Recherche Développement et Innovation, 77300, Fontainebleau, France
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Insubric Ecosystems Research Group, 6593, Cadenazzo, Switzerland
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Universite de Bordeaux, INRAE, BIOGECO, 33615, Pessac, France
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 96053, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology, Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Departamento de Ecología, Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE-CSIC), 46113, Moncada, Valencia, Spain
- National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, 28006, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute for environmental studies, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Izmir Katip Çelebi University, Faculty of Forestry, Çigli, Izmir, Turkey
- Southwest Anatolia Forest Research Institute, Antalya, Turkey
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- Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473, Potsdam, Germany
- Geography Department, Humboldt University, 12489, Berlin, Germany
- Natural Sciences Unit, German Archaeological Institute, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Brandenburg State Forestry Center of Excellence, Eberswalde, Germany
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 96053, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, 79085, Freiburg, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Insubric Ecosystems Research Group, 6593, Cadenazzo, Switzerland
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland
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- Environmental Measuring Systems Ltd., 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, SILVA, F-54000, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, SILVA, F-54000, Nancy, France
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- Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
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- UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department for Geography, University of Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, SILVA, F-54000, Nancy, France
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland
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- Trinity College Dublin, School of Natural Sciences, Botany Department, Dublin, Ireland
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- DendroGreif, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute, 96001, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Forestry, 96001, Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
- UCD Forestry, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
- Siberian Federal University, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
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- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, 252 02, Jíloviště, Czech Republic
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- DendroGreif, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, 17487, Greifswald, Germany
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- Department of Natural Forests, Forest Research Institute, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland
- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), 230 53, Alnarp, Sweden
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- Beijing Research & Development Centre for Grass and Environment, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, 100097, Beijing, China
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- Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
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Arsić J, Stojanović M, Petrovičová L, Noyer E, Milanović S, Světlík J, Horáček P, Krejza J. Increased wood biomass growth is associated with lower wood density in Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. saplings growing under elevated CO2. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0259054. [PMID: 34679119 PMCID: PMC8535391 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 10/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has increased substantially since the industrial revolution began, and physiological responses to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations reportedly alter the biometry and wood structure of trees. Additionally, soil nutrient availability may play an important role in regulating these responses. Therefore, in this study, we grew 288 two-year-old saplings of sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) in lamellar glass domes for three years to evaluate the effects of CO2 concentrations and nutrient supply on above- and belowground biomass, wood density, and wood structure. Elevated CO2 increased above- and belowground biomass by 44.3% and 46.9%, respectively. However, under elevated CO2 treatment, sapling wood density was markedly lower (approximately 1.7%), and notably wider growth rings-and larger, more efficient conduits leading to increased hydraulic conductance-were observed. Moreover, despite the vessels being larger in saplings under elevated CO2, the vessels were significantly fewer (p = 0.023). No direct effects of nutrient supply were observed on biomass growth, wood density, or wood structure, except for a notable decrease in specific leaf area. These results suggest that, although fewer and larger conduits may render the xylem more vulnerable to embolism formation under drought conditions, the high growth rate in sessile oak saplings under elevated CO2 is supported by an efficient vascular system and may increase biomass production in this tree species. Nevertheless, the decreased mechanical strength, indicated by low density and xylem vulnerability to drought, may lead to earlier mortality, offsetting the positive effects of elevated CO2 levels in the future.
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- Janko Arsić
- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
- Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Wood Science and Technology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Brno, Czech Republic
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Darenova E, Horáček P, Krejza J, Pokorný R, Pavelka M. Seasonally varying relationship between stem respiration, increment and carbon allocation of Norway spruce trees. Tree Physiol 2020; 40:943-955. [PMID: 32268373 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpaa039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2020] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Stem respiration is an important component of an ecosystem's carbon budget. Beside environmental factors, it depends highly on tree energy demands for stem growth. Determination of the relationship between stem growth and stem respiration would help to reveal the response of stem respiration to changing climate, which is expected to substantially affect tree growth. Common measurement of stem radial increment does not record all aspects of stem growth processes, especially those connected with cell wall thickening; therefore, the relationship between stem respiration and stem radial increment may vary depending on the wood cell growth differentiation phase. This study presents results from measurements of stem respiration and increment carried out for seven growing seasons in a young Norway spruce forest. Moreover, rates of carbon allocation to stems were modeled for these years. Stem respiration was divided into maintenance (Rm) and growth respiration (Rg) based upon the mature tissue method. There was a close relationship between Rg and daily stem radial increment (dSRI), and this relationship differed before and after dSRI seasonal maximum, which was around 19 June. Before this date, Rg increased exponentially with dSRI, while after this date logarithmically. This is a result of later maxima of Rg and its slower decrease when compared with dSRI, which is connected with energy demands for cell wall thickening. Rg reached a maxima at the end of June or in July. The maximum of carbon allocation to stem peaked in late summer, when Rg mostly tended to decrease. The overall contribution of Rg to stem CO2 efflux amounted to 46.9% for the growing period from May to September and 38.2% for the year as a whole. This study shows that further deeper analysis of in situ stem growth and stem respiration dynamics is greatly needed, especially with a focus on wood formation on a cell level.
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- Eva Darenova
- Global Change Research Institute CAS, v.v.i., Belidla 4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, v.v.i., Belidla 4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, v.v.i., Belidla 4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Silvilculture, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, v.v.i., Belidla 4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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Merganičová K, Merganič J, Lehtonen A, Vacchiano G, Sever MZO, Augustynczik ALD, Grote R, Kyselová I, Mäkelä A, Yousefpour R, Krejza J, Collalti A, Reyer CPO. Forest carbon allocation modelling under climate change. Tree Physiol 2019; 39:1937-1960. [PMID: 31748793 PMCID: PMC6995853 DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpz105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2018] [Revised: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 09/24/2019] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Carbon allocation plays a key role in ecosystem dynamics and plant adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Hence, proper description of this process in vegetation models is crucial for the simulations of the impact of climate change on carbon cycling in forests. Here we review how carbon allocation modelling is currently implemented in 31 contrasting models to identify the main gaps compared with our theoretical and empirical understanding of carbon allocation. A hybrid approach based on combining several principles and/or types of carbon allocation modelling prevailed in the examined models, while physiologically more sophisticated approaches were used less often than empirical ones. The analysis revealed that, although the number of carbon allocation studies over the past 10 years has substantially increased, some background processes are still insufficiently understood and some issues in models are frequently poorly represented, oversimplified or even omitted. Hence, current challenges for carbon allocation modelling in forest ecosystems are (i) to overcome remaining limits in process understanding, particularly regarding the impact of disturbances on carbon allocation, accumulation and utilization of nonstructural carbohydrates, and carbon use by symbionts, and (ii) to implement existing knowledge of carbon allocation into defence, regeneration and improved resource uptake in order to better account for changing environmental conditions.
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- Katarína Merganičová
- Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Kamýcká 129, 16500 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic
- Technical University Zvolen, Forestry Faculty, T. G. Masaryka 24, 96053 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- Technical University Zvolen, Forestry Faculty, T. G. Masaryka 24, 96053 Zvolen, Slovakia
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- The Finnish Forest Research Institute - Luke, PO Box 18 (Jokiniemenkuja 1), FI-01301 Vantaa, Finland
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- Università degli Studi di Milano, DISAA. Via Celoria 2, 20132 Milano, Italy
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- Croatian Forest Research Institute, Department for forest management and forestry economics, Cvjetno naselje 41, 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- University of Helsinki, Department of Forest Science, Latokartanonkaari 7, P.O. Box 27, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str. 4 (2. OG), D-79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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- National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (CNR-ISAFOM), 87036 Rende, Italy
- Department of Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
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- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegraphenberg, PO Box 601203, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Schepaschenko D, Chave J, Phillips OL, Lewis SL, Davies SJ, Réjou-Méchain M, Sist P, Scipal K, Perger C, Herault B, Labrière N, Hofhansl F, Affum-Baffoe K, Aleinikov A, Alonso A, Amani C, Araujo-Murakami A, Armston J, Arroyo L, Ascarrunz N, Azevedo C, Baker T, Bałazy R, Bedeau C, Berry N, Bilous AM, Bilous SY, Bissiengou P, Blanc L, Bobkova KS, Braslavskaya T, Brienen R, Burslem DFRP, Condit R, Cuni-Sanchez A, Danilina D, Del Castillo Torres D, Derroire G, Descroix L, Sotta ED, d'Oliveira MVN, Dresel C, Erwin T, Evdokimenko MD, Falck J, Feldpausch TR, Foli EG, Foster R, Fritz S, Garcia-Abril AD, Gornov A, Gornova M, Gothard-Bassébé E, Gourlet-Fleury S, Guedes M, Hamer KC, Susanty FH, Higuchi N, Coronado ENH, Hubau W, Hubbell S, Ilstedt U, Ivanov VV, Kanashiro M, Karlsson A, Karminov VN, Killeen T, Koffi JCK, Konovalova M, Kraxner F, Krejza J, Krisnawati H, Krivobokov LV, Kuznetsov MA, Lakyda I, Lakyda PI, Licona JC, Lucas RM, Lukina N, Lussetti D, Malhi Y, Manzanera JA, Marimon B, Junior BHM, Martinez RV, Martynenko OV, Matsala M, Matyashuk RK, Mazzei L, Memiaghe H, Mendoza C, Mendoza AM, Moroziuk OV, Mukhortova L, Musa S, Nazimova DI, Okuda T, Oliveira LC, Ontikov PV, Osipov AF, Pietsch S, Playfair M, Poulsen J, Radchenko VG, Rodney K, Rozak AH, Ruschel A, Rutishauser E, See L, Shchepashchenko M, Shevchenko N, Shvidenko A, Silveira M, Singh J, Sonké B, Souza C, Stereńczak K, Stonozhenko L, Sullivan MJP, Szatniewska J, Taedoumg H, Ter Steege H, Tikhonova E, Toledo M, Trefilova OV, Valbuena R, Gamarra LV, Vasiliev S, Vedrova EF, Verhovets SV, Vidal E, Vladimirova NA, Vleminckx J, Vos VA, Vozmitel FK, Wanek W, West TAP, Woell H, Woods JT, Wortel V, Yamada T, Nur Hajar ZS, Zo-Bi IC. The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass. Sci Data 2019; 6:198. [PMID: 31601817 PMCID: PMC6787017 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0196-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 08/19/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
Forest biomass is an essential indicator for monitoring the Earth's ecosystems and climate. It is a critical input to greenhouse gas accounting, estimation of carbon losses and forest degradation, assessment of renewable energy potential, and for developing climate change mitigation policies such as REDD+, among others. Wall-to-wall mapping of aboveground biomass (AGB) is now possible with satellite remote sensing (RS). However, RS methods require extant, up-to-date, reliable, representative and comparable in situ data for calibration and validation. Here, we present the Forest Observation System (FOS) initiative, an international cooperation to establish and maintain a global in situ forest biomass database. AGB and canopy height estimates with their associated uncertainties are derived at a 0.25 ha scale from field measurements made in permanent research plots across the world's forests. All plot estimates are geolocated and have a size that allows for direct comparison with many RS measurements. The FOS offers the potential to improve the accuracy of RS-based biomass products while developing new synergies between the RS and ground-based ecosystem research communities.
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- Dmitry Schepaschenko
- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria.
- Forestry faculty, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mytischi, 141005, Russia.
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Forest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, P.O. Box 37012, Washington 20013, USA
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- CIRAD, Forêts et Sociétés, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- Forêts et Sociétés, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, F-34398, France
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- European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
- Spatial Focus GmbH, Vienna, Austria
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- CIRAD, Forêts et Sociétés, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- Forêts et Sociétés, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- Department Foresterie et Environnement (DFR FOREN), Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, BP 2661, Côte d'Ivoire
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique CNRS/Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
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- Mensuration Unit, Forestry Commission of Ghana, 4 Third Avenue Ridge, Kumasi, POB M434, Ghana
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, 1100 Jefferson Dr SW, Suite 3123, Washington, DC, 20560-0705, USA
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- Centre for International Forestry Research, CIFOR, Jalan CIFOR, Situ Gede, Bogor, 16115, Indonesia
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- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, 2181 Lefrak Hall, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
- Joint Remote Sensing Research Program, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Chamberlain Building (35), Campbell Road, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, 4072, Australia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno Av. Irala 565 - casilla, 2489, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- IBIF, Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal, Av. 6 de agosto # 28, Km 14 doble via La Guardia, Santa Cruz, Casilla, 6204, Bolivia
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- Embrapa, Rodovia AM 10, km 29, Manaus, AM, 69010-970, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- Forest Research Institute, Department of Geomatics, Braci Leśnej 3, Sękocin Stary, Raszyn, 05-090, Poland
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- ONF, ONF-Réserve de Montabo Cayenne Cedex, Cayenne, BP 7002; 97307, French Guiana
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- The Landscapes and Livelihoods Group, 20 Chambers St, Edinburgh, EH1 1JZ, UK
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- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, General Rodimtsev 19, Kyiv, 3041, Ukraine
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- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, General Rodimtsev 19, Kyiv, 3041, Ukraine
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- CIRAD, Forêts et Sociétés, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- Forêts et Sociétés, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, F-34398, France
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- Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaya 28, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russia
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK
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- Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Rte. 53, Lisle, 60532, IL, USA
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5NG, UK
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Av. Abelardo Quiñones km 2.5, Iquitos, Apartado Postal 784, Peru
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- CIRAD, UMR EcoFoG, Campus Agronomique - BP 701, Kourou, 97387, France, French Guiana
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- ONF, ONF-Réserve de Montabo Cayenne Cedex, Cayenne, BP 7002; 97307, French Guiana
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- Embrapa, Rodovia Juscelino Kubitscheck, Km 5, no 2.600, Macapa, Caixa Postal 10, CEP: 68903-419, Brazil
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
- Spatial Focus GmbH, Vienna, Austria
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- SI Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 187, Washington, DC, DC 20013-7012, USA
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Department Forest Ecology and Management, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Umeå, SE-901 83, Sweden
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- Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter,Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
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- Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, UP Box 63, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
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- The Field Musium, 1400S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL, 60605, USA
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Institut Centrafricain de Recherche Agronomique, ICRA, BP 122, Bangui, Central African Republic
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- CIRAD, Forêts et Sociétés, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montpellier, F-34398, France
- Forêts et Sociétés, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, F-34398, France
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- Embrapa, Rodovia Juscelino Kubitscheck, Km 5, no 2.600, Macapa, Caixa Postal 10, CEP: 68903-419, Brazil
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- School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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- FOERDIA, Forestry and Environment Research Development and Innovation Agency, Jalan Gunung Batu No 5, Bogor, 16610, Indonesia
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - Coordenação de Pesquisas em Silvicultura Tropical, Manaus, 69060-001, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Av. Abelardo Quiñones km 2.5, Iquitos, Apartado Postal 784, Peru
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
- U Gent-Woodlab, Laboratory of Wood Technology, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 621 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1606, USA
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- Department Forest Ecology and Management, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Umeå, SE-901 83, Sweden
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Travessa Doutor Enéas Pinheiro, Belém, PA, 66095-903, Brazil
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- Department Forest Ecology and Management, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Umeå, SE-901 83, Sweden
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- World Wildlife Fund, Calle Diego de Mendoza 299, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, Brno, 603 00, Czech Republic
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- FOERDIA, Forestry and Environment Research Development and Innovation Agency, Jalan Gunung Batu No 5, Bogor, 16610, Indonesia
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaya 28, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russia
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- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, General Rodimtsev 19, Kyiv, 3041, Ukraine
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- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, General Rodimtsev 19, Kyiv, 3041, Ukraine
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- IBIF, Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal, Av. 6 de agosto # 28, Km 14 doble via La Guardia, Santa Cruz, Casilla, 6204, Bolivia
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- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Department Forest Ecology and Management, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Umeå, SE-901 83, Sweden
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- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, UNEMAT, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso, 78.690-000, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, UNEMAT, Campus de Nova Xavantina, Nova Xavantina, Mato Grosso, 78.690-000, Brazil
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- Russian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry, Institutskaya 17, Pushkino, 141200, Russia
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- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, General Rodimtsev 19, Kyiv, 3041, Ukraine
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- Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lebedev 37, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine
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- Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Travessa Doutor Enéas Pinheiro, Belém, PA, 66095-903, Brazil
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- University of Oregon, 1585 E 13th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97403, USA
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- Jardín Botánico de Missouri; Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Oxapampa, Peru
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- National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, General Rodimtsev 19, Kyiv, 3041, Ukraine
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- FRIM Forest Reserach Institute of Malaysia, 52109 Kepong, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Hiroshima University, 1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan
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- Forestry faculty, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mytischi, 141005, Russia
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- Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaya 28, Syktyvkar, 167982, Russia
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
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- Center for Agricultural research in Suriname, CELOS, 1914, Paramaribo, Suriname
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, P.O. Box 90328, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Institute for Evolutionary Ecology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lebedev 37, Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine
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- IIC, The Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, 77 High Street, Georgetown, Guyana
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- Cibodas Botanic Gardens - Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jl. Kebun Raya Cibodas, Cipanas, Cianjur, 43253, Indonesia
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- Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Travessa Doutor Enéas Pinheiro, Belém, PA, 66095-903, Brazil
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama 3092, Panama
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
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- Russian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry, Institutskaya 17, Pushkino, 141200, Russia
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Museu Universitário, Universidade Federal do Acre, BR 364, Km 04 - Distrito Industrial, Rio Branco, 69915-559, Brazil
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- Guyana Forestry Commission, 1 Water Street, Kingston Georgetown, Guyana
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- Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, University of Yaoundé I, P.O. Box 047, Yaounde, Cameroon
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- Embrapa, Rodovia AM 10, km 29, Manaus, AM, 69010-970, Brazil
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- Forest Research Institute, Department of Geomatics, Braci Leśnej 3, Sękocin Stary, Raszyn, 05-090, Poland
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- Russian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry, Institutskaya 17, Pushkino, 141200, Russia
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, Brno, 603 00, Czech Republic
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- Plant Systematic and Ecology Laboratory, University of Yaoundé I, P.O. Box 047, Yaounde, Cameroon
- Bioversity international, P.O. Box 2008, Messa, Yaoundé, Cameroun
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- Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 84/32/14, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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- Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel Rene Moreno Av. Irala 565 - casilla, 2489, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Thoday Building. Deiniol Rd, Bangor, LL57 2UW, United Kingdom
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- Jardín Botánico de Missouri; Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Oxapampa, Peru
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- Forestry faculty, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mytischi, 141005, Russia
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- V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Academgorodok 50(28), Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia
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- Siberian Federal University, Svobodnyy Ave, 79, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia
- Reshetnev Siberian state university of science and technology, pr. Mira 82, Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia
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- Department of Forest Sciences, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of Sao Paolo, PO Box 9, Av. Pádua Dias, 11, Piracicaba, São Paulo, 13418-900, Brazil
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- State Nature Reserve Denezhkin Kamen, Lenina, 6, Sverdlovsk reg, Severouralsk, 624480, Russia
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- International Center for Tropical Botany, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, 11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, 33199, FL, USA
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- Forestry faculty, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Mytischi, 141005, Russia
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- Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem research, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, Vienna, A-1090, Austria
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- New Zealand Forest Research Institute (Scion) Te Papa Tipu Innovation Park, 49 Sala Street, Rotorua, 3046, New Zealand
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- Unaffiliated (retired), Sommersbergseestrasse 291, Bad Aussee, 8990, Austria
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- W.R.T College of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Liberia, Capitol Hill, Monrovia, 9020, Liberia
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- Center for Agricultural research in Suriname, CELOS, 1914, Paramaribo, Suriname
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- Hiroshima University, 1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 739-8521, Japan
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- FRIM Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, 52109 Kepong, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department Foresterie et Environnement (DFR FOREN), Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, INP-HB, Yamoussoukro, BP 2661, Côte d'Ivoire
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Uchytilová T, Krejza J, Veselá B, Holub P, Urban O, Horáček P, Klem K. Ultraviolet radiation modulates C:N stoichiometry and biomass allocation in Fagus sylvatica saplings cultivated under elevated CO 2 concentration. Plant Physiol Biochem 2019; 134:103-112. [PMID: 30097290 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2018.07.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2018] [Revised: 07/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/31/2018] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Under the conditions of ongoing climate change, terrestrial ecosystems will be simultaneously exposed to a permanent rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration and increasing variability of such environmental factors as temperature, precipitation, and UV radiation. This will result in numerous interactions. The interactive effects caused by exposure to such multiple environmental factors are not yet well understood. We tested the hypotheses that enhanced UV radiation reduces the stimulatory effect of elevated CO2 concentration on plant biomass production and that it alters biomass allocation in broadleaved European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) saplings. Our results after 2 years of exposure confirmed interactive effects of CO2 concentration and UV radiation on biomass production, and particularly on biomass allocation to roots and aboveground biomass. The strongest stimulatory effect of elevated CO2 on aboveground biomass and roots was found under ambient UV radiation, while both low and high UV doses reduced this stimulation. Nitrogen content in the roots and the distribution of nitrogen among leaves and roots were also significantly affected by interaction of CO2 concentration and UV radiation. The observed changes in leaf and root C:N stoichiometry were associated with altered morphological traits, and particularly with a change in the proportion of fine roots. As the biomass allocation and especially the proportion of fine roots can play an important role in effective water and nutrient use and acclimation to future climates, it is essential to obtain a deeper understanding of the links between C:N stoichiometry and biomass accumulation.
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- Tereza Uchytilová
- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, CZ-603 00, Brno, Czech Republic; Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, CZ-613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, CZ-603 00, Brno, Czech Republic; Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, CZ-613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, CZ-603 00, Brno, Czech Republic; Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, CZ-613 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, CZ-603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, CZ-603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, CZ-603 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Global Change Research Institute CAS, Bělidla 986/4a, CZ-603 00, Brno, Czech Republic; Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, CZ-613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
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PURPOSE To describe a case where detection of blood flow in the central retinal artery and the central retinal vein was limited by an artifact evoked by the optic disc drusen. METHODS Case report. RESULTS During color Doppler sonography, examination of optic disc drusen may generate an artifact--the so-called twinkling artifact--which can simulate blood flow and make evaluation of the central retinal vessels impossible. CONCLUSIONS Twinkling artifact does not allow evaluation of color Doppler sonography in the imaging of ocular vessels.
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- A Ustymowicz
- Department of Radiology Bialystok Medical Academy, Bialystok - Poland.
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Bellan M, Marková I, Zaika A, Krejza J. Light Use Efficiency of Aboveground Biomass Production of Norway Spruce Stands. Acta Univ Agric Silvic Mendelianae Brun 2017. [DOI: 10.11118/actaun201765010009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Chen R, Arkuszewski M, Krejza J, Zimmerman RA, Herskovits EH, Melhem ER. A prospective longitudinal brain morphometry study of children with sickle cell disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2014; 36:403-10. [PMID: 25234033 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a4101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Age-related changes in brain morphology are crucial to understanding the neurobiology of sickle cell disease. We hypothesized that the growth trajectories for total GM volume, total WM volume, and regional GM volumes are altered in children with sickle cell disease compared with controls. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed T1-weighted images of the brains of 28 children with sickle cell disease (mean baseline age, 98 months; female/male ratio, 15:13) and 28 healthy age- and sex-matched controls (mean baseline age, 99 months; female/male ratio, 16:12). The total number of MR imaging examinations was 141 (2-4 for each subject with sickle cell disease, 2-3 for each control subject). Total GM volume, total WM volume, and regional GM volumes were measured by using an automated method. We used the multilevel-model-for-change approach to model growth trajectories. RESULTS Total GM volume in subjects with sickle cell disease decreased linearly at a rate of 411 mm(3) per month. For controls, the trajectory of total GM volume was quadratic; we did not observe a significant linear decline. For subjects with sickle cell disease, we found 35 brain structures that demonstrated age-related GM volume reduction. Total WM volume in subjects with sickle cell disease increased at a rate of 452 mm(3) per month, while the trajectory of controls was quadratic. CONCLUSIONS There was a significant age-related decrease in total GM volume in children with sickle cell disease. The GM volume reduction was spatially distributed widely across the brain, primarily in the frontal, parietal, and occipital lobes. Total WM volume in subjects with sickle cell disease increased at a lower rate than for controls.
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- R Chen
- From the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (R.C., J.K., E.H.H., E.R.M.), University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland Department of Radiology (R.C., R.A.Z.), Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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- Department of Neurology (M.A.), Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (R.C., J.K., E.H.H., E.R.M.), University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Radiology (R.A.Z.), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Department of Radiology (R.C., R.A.Z.), Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (R.C., J.K., E.H.H., E.R.M.), University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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- From the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (R.C., J.K., E.H.H., E.R.M.), University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland
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Krejza J, Pokorný R, Marková I. Is allometry for aboveground organ's mass estimation in young Norway spruce stands affected by different type of thinning? Acta Univ Agric Silvic Mendelianae Brun 2013. [DOI: 10.11118/actaun201361061755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Arkuszewski M, Krejza J, Chen R, Bilello M, Melhem E. Silent cerebral infarctions and MR perfusion imaging in children with sickle cell anemia. J Neurol Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2013.07.979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Krejza J, Rudzinski W, Arkuszewski M, Onuoha O, Melhem ER. Cerebrovascular reactivity across the menstrual cycle in young healthy women. Neuroradiol J 2013; 26:413-9. [PMID: 24007729 DOI: 10.1177/197140091302600406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2013] [Accepted: 07/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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This study evaluated the relationship of cerebrovascular reactivity in young healthy women with changes in concentrations of circulating ovarian hormones throughout the menstrual cycle. Nineteen healthy nulliparous, right-handed, regularly menstruating women (age 23-25 years) underwent color-coded duplex sonography of the common (CCA), internal (ICA) and external (ECA) carotid arteries on both sides. Mean blood flow velocity values measured before and ten minutes after intravenous administration of 1000 mg acetazolamide (ACE) were assessed in relation to the serum concentration of estrogen and progesterone on days 5, 13 and 26 of the cycle. After ACE administration flow velocity in the right CCA and ICA increased by 23% and 35% on day 5, 12% and 31% on day 13 and 30% and 47% on day 26 respectively, and the changes were significantly larger on the right side (F=6.793 and F=4.098 respectively; both p<0.05). Changes in blood flow velocity in the right CCA and ICA after ACE injection were significantly associated with ovarian hormone concentrations (F=3.828, P=0.028 and F=3.671, P=0.032 respectively). We conclude that cerebrovascular reactivity changes across the menstrual cycle are associated with ovarian steroid hormone changes, and are asymmetric. The results imply that vasculature of the right hemisphere may undergo cyclic vasodilation across the menstrual cycle and this effect should be considered in studies of cerebrovascular reactivity in women with migraine and mood disorders.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center; Baltimore, MD, USA -
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Arkuszewski M, Krejza J, Chen R, Melhem ER. Sickle cell anemia: reference values of cerebral blood flow determined by continuous arterial spin labeling MRI. Neuroradiol J 2013; 26:191-200. [PMID: 23859242 DOI: 10.1177/197140091302600209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2013] [Accepted: 04/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a chronic illness associated with progressive deterioration in patients' quality of life. The major complications of SCA are cerebrovascular accidents (CVA) such as asymptomatic cerebral infarct or overt stroke. The risk of CVA may be related to chronic disturbances in cerebral blood flow (CBF), but the thresholds of "normal" steady-state CBF are not well established. The reference tolerance limits of CBF can be useful to estimate the risk of CVA in asymptomatic children with SCA, who are negative for hyperemia or evidence of arterial narrowing. Continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) MR perfusion allows for non-invasive quantification of global and regional CBF. To establish such reference tolerance limits we performed CASL MR examinations on a 3-Tesla MR scanner in a carefully selected cohort of 42 children with SCA (mean age, 8.1±3.3 years; range limits, 2.3-14.4 years; 24 females), who were not on chronic transfusion therapy, had no history of overt stroke or transient ischemic attack, were free of signs and symptoms of focal vascular territory ischemic brain injury, did not have intracranial arterial narrowing on MR angiography and were at low risk for stroke as determined by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography.
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- M Arkuszewski
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
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Bilello M, Arkuszewski M, Nucifora P, Nasrallah I, Melhem ER, Cirillo L, Krejza J. Multiple sclerosis: identification of temporal changes in brain lesions with computer-assisted detection software. Neuroradiol J 2013; 26:143-50. [PMID: 23859235 DOI: 10.1177/197140091302600202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2013] [Accepted: 03/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease with a progressing and evolving course. Serial imaging with MRI is the mainstay in monitoring and managing MS patients. In this work we demonstrate the performance of a locally developed computer-assisted detection (CAD) software used to track temporal changes in brain MS lesions. CAD tracks changes in T2-bright MS lesions between two time points on a 3D high-resolution isotropic FLAIR MR sequence of the brain acquired at 3 Tesla. The program consists of an image-processing pipeline, and displays scrollable difference maps used as an aid to the neuroradiologist for assessing lesional change. To assess the value of the software we have compared diagnostic accuracy and duration of interpretation of the CAD-assisted and routine clinical interpretations in 98 randomly chosen, paired MR examinations from 88 patients (68 women, 20 men, mean age 43.5, age range 21-75) with a diagnosis of definite MS. The ground truth was determined by a three-expert panel. In case-wise analysis, CAD interpretation showed higher sensitivity than a clinical report (87% vs 77%, respectively). Lesion-wise analysis demonstrated improved sensitivity of CAD over a routine clinical interpretation of 40%-48%. Mean software-assisted interpretation time was 2.7 min. Our study demonstrates the potential of including CAD software in the workflow of neuroradiology practice for the detection of MS lesional change. Automated quantification of temporal change in MS lesion load may also be used in clinical research, e.g., in drug trials.
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- M Bilello
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Chawla S, Krejza J, Vossough A, Zhang Y, Kapoor GS, Wang S, O'Rourke DM, Melhem ER, Poptani H. Differentiation between oligodendroglioma genotypes using dynamic susceptibility contrast perfusion-weighted imaging and proton MR spectroscopy. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2013; 34:1542-9. [PMID: 23370479 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a3384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Oligodendrogliomas with 1p/19q chromosome LOH are more sensitive to chemoradiation therapy than those with intact alleles. The usefulness of dynamic susceptibility contrast-PWI-guided ¹H-MRS in differentiating these 2 genotypes was tested in this study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty patients with oligodendrogliomas, 1p/19q LOH (n = 23) and intact alleles (n = 17), underwent MR imaging and 2D-¹H-MRS. ¹H-MRS VOI was overlaid on FLAIR images to encompass the hyperintense abnormality on the largest cross-section of the neoplasm and then overlaid on CBV maps to coregister CBV maps with ¹H-MRS VOI. rCBVmax values were obtained by measuring the CBV from each of the selected ¹H-MRS voxels in the neoplasm and were normalized with respect to contralateral white matter. Metabolite ratios with respect to ipsilateral Cr were computed from the voxel corresponding to the rCBVmax value. Logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic analyses were performed to ascertain the best model to discriminate the 2 genotypes of oligodendrogliomas. Qualitative evaluation of conventional MR imaging characteristics (patterns of tumor border, signal intensity, contrast enhancement, and paramagnetic susceptibility effect) was also performed to distinguish the 2 groups of oligodendrogliomas. RESULTS The incorporation of rCBVmax value and metabolite ratios (NAA/Cr, Cho/Cr, Glx/Cr, myo-inositol/Cr, and lipid + lactate/Cr) into the multivariate logistic regression model provided the best discriminatory classification with sensitivity (82.6%), specificity (64.7%), and accuracy (72%) in distinguishing 2 oligodendroglioma genotypes. Oligodendrogliomas with 1p/19q LOH were also more associated with paramagnetic susceptibility effect (P < .05). CONCLUSIONS Our preliminary results indicate the potential of combing PWI and ¹H-MRS to distinguish oligodendroglial genotypes.
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- S Chawla
- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Arkuszewski M, Swiat M, Hurst R, Weigele J, Al-Okaili R, Kasner S, Melhem E, Krejza J. Vertebral and Basilar Arteries: Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Ultrasonography versus Conventional TCD in Detection of Narrowings. Neuroradiol J 2012; 25:509-14. [DOI: 10.1177/197140091202500502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2012] [Accepted: 08/31/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We prospectively compared the accuracies of conventional transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) and transcranial color-coded duplex sonography (TCCS) in the diagnosis of narrowing of the basilar (BA) and vertebral arteries (VA). Fifty-six consecutive patients (mean age 55.8 years; 34 women) after subarachnoid hemorrhage (n=46), stroke or transient ischemic attack (n=5), and for other reasons (n=5) underwent on the same day TCD, TCCS and the intra-arterial digital subtraction angiography (DSA) – the reference standard. The accuracy of peak-systolic (VPS), mean (VM), and end-diastolic velocities (VED) in detection of any arterial narrowing was estimated using the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve methodology and the total area (Az) under the curve. Accuracy of TCCS in detection of VA narrowing based on VPS and VM measurements was significantly higher than accuracy of TCD (Az =0.65 for VPS and Az =0.62 for VM versus Az =0.51 and Az =0.50, respectively, p<0.05 for both). Accuracy of TCCS in detection of BA narrowing was also higher than accuracy of TCD based on VPS measurements (Az =0.69 versus Az =0.50, respectively), with a trend toward significant difference, p=0.085. The accuracy of TCCS is superior to accuracy of TCD in detection of narrowings of vertebral and basilar arteries, thus TCCS should be preferred in routine clinical practice.
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- M. Arkuszewski
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Silesia; Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Silesia; Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk; Gdansk, Poland
- Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Arkuszewski M, Krejza J, Chen R, Kwiatkowski JL, Ichord R, Zimmerman R, Ohene-Frempong K, Melhem ER. Sickle cell disease in children: accuracy of imaging transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in detection of intracranial arterial stenosis. Neuroradiol J 2012; 25:402-10. [PMID: 24029032 DOI: 10.1177/197140091202500402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2012] [Accepted: 06/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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This study aimed to determine the accuracy of imaging transcranial Doppler sonography in detection of intracranial arterial stenosis in children with sickle cell disease using three-dimensional MR angiography as a reference standard. Sixty-one children (mean age 102±39 months, 30 males), who had no history of overt stroke, and were classified as at lowest risk of stroke by mean flow velocity criterion <170 cm/s, underwent conventional and imaging transcranial Doppler ultrasonographic examinations. We employed the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) to determine the accuracy of flow velocity measurements obtained with imaging ultrasonography with and without correction for the angle of insonation as well as with conventional ultrasonography. We also established the most efficacious velocity thresholds for detection of the stenosis. We found ten intracranial stenoses in six patients on MR angiography, but we calculated AUC only for detection of stenosis (n=6) of the left intracranial internal carotid artery. The accuracy of flow velocity with angle correction was lower than the accuracy of velocity without angle correction (AUC=0.73, 95% CI, 0.53-0.93 versus AUC=0.87, 95% CI, 0.74-1.00; p=0.017). The accuracy of flow velocity obtained with conventional ultrasonography (AUC=0.82, 95% CI, 0.67-0.97) was not different from the accuracy of flow velocities obtained with imaging ultrasonography. We found that the threshold of 165 cm/s of mean velocity without angle correction is associated with highest efficiency for imaging (92%) and conventional ultrasonography (90%). Velocity measurements without angle-correction provide good accuracy in detection of stenosis of the terminal internal carotid artery, whereas angle-corrected velocities have lower accuracy.
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- M Arkuszewski
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA - Department of Neurology, Medical University of Silesia; Katowice, Poland -
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Bilello M, Arkuszewski M, Nasrallah I, Wu X, Erus G, Krejza J. Errata Corrige: The Neuroradiology Journal 25: 17-21, 2012. Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in the Brain: Computer-Assisted Assessment of Lesion Load Dynamics on 3D FLAIR MR Images. Neuroradiol J 2012; 25:379-384. [PMID: 24028994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2012] [Accepted: 05/07/2012] [Indexed: 06/02/2023] Open
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The detection and monitoring of brain lesions caused by multiple sclerosis is commonly performed with the use of magnetic resonance imaging. Analysis of a large number of images is a time-consuming challenge to the neuroradiologist, that can be accelerated with the assistance of computer-detection software. In 98 baseline and follow-up brain magnetic resonance studies from 88 patients with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, we employed locally developed lesion-detection software to assess temporal change in the load of brain lesions and compared its results to routine clinical reports. Analyzing the differences between the follow-up study and the baseline study, the software displays the results in the form of a scrollable axial volume, with the changed lesions highlighted in different colors and superimposed on the baseline reference scan. Although disagreements between the software and the clinical readers in the detection of changed lesions were observed only in 12 (12.2%) cases, the difference reached statistical significance (p=0.04). The mean interpretation time with assistance of the software was 2.7±2.2 minutes. We conclude that the performance of the software-assisted interpretation in the analysis of change over time in multiple sclerosis brain lesions is different from the performance of clinical readers, with a possibly shorter assessment time. The software detected more changes from baseline than clinical readers, suggesting a higher sensitivity, which will have to be confirmed on further analysis.
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- M Bilello
- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA -
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Krejza J, Arkuszewski M, Radcliffe J, Flynn T, Chen R, Kwiatkowski J, Ichord R, Zimmerman R, Bilello M, Ohene-Frempong K, Melhem E. Association of Pulsatility Index in the Middle Cerebral Artery with Intelligence Quotient in Children with Sickle Cell Disease. Neuroradiol J 2012; 25:351-9. [DOI: 10.1177/197140091202500311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2012] [Accepted: 06/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to explore whether intellectual performance in children with Sickle Cell Disease and with low risk of stroke as determined with conventional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) criteria was associated with hemodynamic parameters in imaging TCD, when controlling for hematological and socio-economical variables and presence of silent infarcts. We performed neuropsychological testing with Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT-IQ) and imaging TCD examinations to measure blood flow velocities and pulsatility indexes (PI) in the middle cerebral arteries (MCA) In 46 children with homozygous HbSS (mean age 108±34 months, range limits: 47–166 months; 24 females), without a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack, with no stenosis on magnetic resonance angiography and with velocities below 170 cm/s in screening conventional TCD. Mean K-BIT IQ Composite and Vocabulary scores (91±13 and 86±14 respectively) were significantly below the average scores of 100 for the age-matched population (one sample t-test=5.21, p<0.001). Using univariate and multivariate regression models, we found that lower PI in the right MCA was associated with lower K-BIT-IQ Composite and Vocabulary scores. Furthermore, we found that interhemispheric differences in PIs were even more strongly associated with neuropsychological performance, whereas flow velocities were not associated with the K-BIT-IQ score. Using a model of chronic anemia, we found that cognitive functioning was associated with cerebral hemodynamics.
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- J. Krejza
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk; Gdansk, Poland
- Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Silesia; Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Neurology
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- Department of Radiology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Bilello M, Lao Z, Krejza J, Hillis AE, Herskovits EH. Atlas-Based Classification of Hyperintense Regions from MR Diffusion-Weighted Images of the Brain: Preliminary Results. Neuroradiol J 2012; 25:112-20. [PMID: 24028884 DOI: 10.1177/197140091202500115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2011] [Accepted: 01/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The study of subjects with acquired brain damage in a specific location is important in exploring human brain function. Description of lesion locations within and across subjects is a crucial methodological component that usually involves the distinction of normal from damaged tissue (lesion segmentation) in relation to lesion locations in terms of a standard anatomical reference space (lesion mapping). Our study provides an atlas-based, computer-aided methodology for classification of hyperintense regions on diffusion-weighted images of the brain, representing either ischemic lesions or susceptibility artifacts. We applied a leave-one-out method of cross-validation that computed probabilistic atlases of true lesions and artifacts, based on training data. Our approach accurately classifies lesions and artifacts, but leaves a significant number of regions unclassified, due to the relatively small number of training samples. An initial segmentation step based on a larger sample of data sets is required to automate discrimination of lesions and artifacts.
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA -
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Bilello M, Arkuszewski M, Nasrallah I, Wu X, Erus G, Krejza J. Multiple Sclerosis Lesions in the Brain: Computer-Assisted Assessment of Lesion Load Dynamics on 3D FLAIR MR Images. Neuroradiol J 2012; 25:17-21. [PMID: 24028871 DOI: 10.1177/197140091202500102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2011] [Accepted: 01/14/2012] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The detection and monitoring of brain lesions caused by multiple sclerosis is commonly performed with the use of magnetic resonance imaging. Analysis of a large number of images is a time-consuming challenge to the neuroradiologist, that can be accelerated with the assistance of computer-detection software. In 98 baseline and follow-up brain magnetic resonance studies from 88 patients with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, we employed locally developed lesion-detection software to assess temporal change in the load of brain lesions and compared its results to routine clinical reports. Analyzing the differences between the follow-up study and the baseline study, the software displays the results in the form of a scrollable axial volume, with the changed lesions highlighted in different colors and superimposed on the baseline reference scan. Disagreements between the software and the clinical readers in the detection of changed lesions were observed only in 11 (11.2%) cases, and the difference did not reach statistical significance (p=0.07). The mean interpretation time with assistance of the software was 2.7±2.2 minutes. We conclude that the performance of the software-assisted interpretation in the analysis of change over time in multiple sclerosis brain lesions is comparable to the performance of clinical readers, with a possibly shorter assessment time. Our study demonstrates the potential of including lesion-detection software in the workflow of neuroradiology practice.
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- M. Bilello
- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Medical University of Silesia; Katowice, Poland
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Arkuszewski M, Krejza J, Chen R, Kwiatkowski JL, Ichord R, Zimmerman R, Ohene-Frempong K, Desiderio L, Melhem ER. Sickle cell disease: reference values and interhemispheric differences of nonimaging transcranial Doppler blood flow parameters. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2011; 32:1444-50. [PMID: 21700785 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a2529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE TCD screening is widely used to identify children with SCD at high risk of stroke. Those with high mean flow velocities in major brain arteries have increased risk of stroke. Thus, our aim was to establish reference values of interhemispheric differences and ratios of blood flow Doppler parameters in the tICA, MCA, and ACA as determined by conventional TCD in children with sickle cell anemia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Reference limits of blood flow parameters were established on the basis of a consecutive cohort of 56 children (mean age, 100 ± 40 months; range, 29-180 months; 30 females) free of neurologic deficits and intracranial stenosis detectable by MRA, with blood flow velocities <170 cm/s by conventional TCD. Reference limits were estimated by using tolerance intervals, within which are included with a probability of .90 of all possible data values from 95% of a population. RESULTS Average peak systolic velocities were significantly higher in the right hemisphere in the MCA and ACA (185 ± 28 cm/s versus 179 ± 27 and 152 ± 30 cm/s versus 143 ± 34 cm/s respectively). Reference limits for left-to-right differences in the mean flow velocities were the following: -43 to 33 cm/s for the MCA; -49 to 38 cm/s for the ACA, and -38 to 34 cm/s for the tICA, respectively. Respective reference limits for left-to-right velocity ratios were the following: 0.72 to 1.25 cm/s for the MCA; 0.62 to 1.39 cm/s for the ACA, and 0.69 to 1.27 cm/s for the tICA. Flow velocities in major arteries were inversely related to age and Hct or Hgb. CONCLUSIONS The study provides reference intervals of TCD flow velocities and their interhemispheric differences and ratios that may be helpful in identification of intracranial arterial stenosis in children with SCD undergoing sonographic screening for stroke prevention.
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- M Arkuszewski
- Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 19104, USA
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Oszkinis G, Pukacki F, Juszkat R, Weigele JB, Gabriel M, Krasinski Z, Zieliński M, Krejza J. Restenosis after carotid endarterectomy: incidence and endovascular management. Interv Neuroradiol 2008; 13:345-52. [PMID: 20566103 DOI: 10.1177/159101990701300405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2007] [Accepted: 11/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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SUMMARY Surgical procedures designed to restore vascular patency for a recurrent stenosis following carotid endarterectomy (CEA) are burdened with technical difficulties as well as with the possibility of serious neurological complications. An endovascular approach employing transluminal percutaneous angioplasty and stenting (PTAS) is a promising solution to these problems. We aimed to evaluate the incidence of carotid artery restenosis following CEA, and to evaluate the safety and efficacy of treating post-CEA restenosis with an endovascular technique (PTAS). One hundred and two patients who underwent CEA for symptomatic and asymptomatic stenosis were included in the analysis. Clinical and sonographic follow-up examinations identified carotid artery restenosis in 16 patients, who fulfilled our criteria for endovascular treatment. Carotid PTAS was performed on symptomatic patients with a stenosis over 60% of the artery lumen (n=7) and in asymptomatic patients with a stenosis over 80% (n=9). The post-PTAS patients were evaluated by duplex sonography every three months over a 24 month follow-up period for evidence of restenosis. The cumulative incidence of post-CEA carotid restenosis qualifying for PTAS was 9.3% during an average 12-month follow-up interval. The average time from CEA to carotid PTAS was 11 months. All 16 endovascular procedures were technically successful. All of the carotid arteries were widely patent following PTAS. There were no immediate perioperative complications. One patient died two days after carotid PTAS from a cerebral hemorrhage. Thirteen of the 16 patients remained asymptomatic and had no sonographic evidence of significant restenosis during the 24- month post-PTAS follow-up period. One patient developed a symptomatic 80% restenosis proximal to the stent six months after carotid PTAS. Another patient developed an asymptomatic 60% restenosis proximal to the stent at 24 months. One patient was lost to follow-up. Following CEA, there is a significant risk of developing a symptomatic or high-grade carotid artery restenosis requiring correction. Endovascular treatment (PTAS) of a recurrent stenosis after CEA is a safe and effective alternative to repeat carotid surgery.
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Krejza J, Rudzinski W, Pawlak MA, Tomaszewski M, Ichord R, Kwiatkowski J, Gor D, Melhem ER. Angle-corrected imaging transcranial doppler sonography versus imaging and nonimaging transcranial doppler sonography in children with sickle cell disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2007; 28:1613-8. [PMID: 17846223 PMCID: PMC8134377 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a0591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Nonimaging transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) and imaging TCD (TCDI) are used for determination of the risk of stroke in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). The purpose was to compare angle-corrected, uncorrected TCDI, and TCD blood flow velocities in children with SCD. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 37 children (mean age, 7.8 +/- 3.0 years) without intracranial arterial narrowing determined with MR angiography, were studied with use of TCD and TCDI at the same session. Depth of insonation and TCDI mean velocities with and without correction for the angle of insonation in the terminal internal carotid artery (ICA) and middle (MCA), anterior (ACA), and posterior (PCA) cerebral arteries were compared with TCD velocities with use of a paired t test. RESULTS Two arteries were not found on TCDI compared with 15 not found on TCD. Average angle of insonation in the MCA, ACA, ICA, and PCA was 31 degrees , 44 degrees , 25 degrees , and 29 degrees , respectively. TCDI and TCD mean depth of insonation for all arteries did not differ significantly; however, individual differences varied substantially. TCDI velocities were significantly lower than TCD velocities, respectively, for the right and left sides (mean +/- SD): MCA, 106 +/- 22 cm/s and 111 +/- 33 cm/s versus 130 +/- 19 cm/s and 134 +/- 26 cm/s; ICA, 90 +/- 14 cm/s and 98 +/- 27 cm/s versus 117 +/- 18 cm/s and 119 +/- 23 cm/s; ACA, 74 +/- 24 cm/s and 88 +/- 25 cm/s versus 105 +/- 23 cm/s and 105 +/- 31 cm/s; and PCA, 84 +/- 27 cm/s and 82 +/- 21 cm/s versus 95 +/- 23 cm/s and 94 +/- 20 cm/s. TCD and angle-corrected TCDI velocities were not statistically different except for higher angle-corrected TCDI values in the left ACA and right PCA. CONCLUSION TCD velocities are significantly higher than TCDI velocities but are not different from the angle-corrected TCDI velocities. TCDI identifies the major intracranial arteries more effectively than TCD.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Bert R, Patz S, Ossiani M, Caruthers S, Jara H, Krejza J, Freddo T. High-resolution MR imaging of the human eye 2005. Am J Ophthalmol 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2006.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Wang S, Poptani H, Bilello M, Wu X, Woo JH, Elman LB, McCluskey LF, Krejza J, Melhem ER. Diffusion tensor imaging in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: volumetric analysis of the corticospinal tract. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2006; 27:1234-8. [PMID: 16775271 PMCID: PMC8133954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) allows direct visualization and volumetric analysis of the corticospinal tract (CST). The purpose of this study was to determine whether color maps and fiber tracking derived from DTI data are valuable in detecting and quantifying CST degeneration in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS Sixteen patients with ALS with clinical signs of upper motor neuron (UMN) involvement and 17 healthy subjects were studied with the use of DTI. Disease severity was determined by means of the ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised (ALSFRS-R) and an UMN involvement score. DTI was acquired with a 12-direction, single-shot, spin-echo echo-planar sequence. The CST from the lower pons to the corona radiata at the level of the corpus callosum on 4 contiguous coronal sections was manually segmented by using color maps generated from the DTI data. The left and right CST volumes were measured separately and normalized to the total intracranial volume. Normalized CST volumes were compared between patients with ALS and healthy subjects. RESULTS The CST volumes of patients with ALS were significantly reduced (P < .01, unpaired t test) compared with healthy subjects, in both affected and nonaffected hemispheres. No significant correlation was found between CST volumes and any of the clinical parameters, including disease duration, ALSFRS-R, or UMN involvement score. CONCLUSION This study shows that volumetric analysis by using DTI-based color maps is valuable in detecting and monitoring structural degeneration of the CST. This will lead to objective and quantitative assessment of axonal degeneration in ALS.
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- S Wang
- Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Krejza J, Weigele JB, Alokaili R, Arkuszewski M, Hurst RW. Sonothrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke for patients ineligible for rt-PA. Neurology 2006; 66:154-5; author reply 154-5. [PMID: 16401878 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000203712.10070.74] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Krejza J, Swiat M. Letters to the Editors. Climacteric 2006; 9:66; author reply 67. [PMID: 16428127 DOI: 10.1080/13697130500487190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Kochanowicz J, Krejza J, Mariak Z, Bilello M, Lyson T, Lewko J. Detection and monitoring of cerebral hemodynamic disturbances with transcranial color-coded duplex sonography in patients after head injury. Neuroradiology 2005; 48:31-6. [PMID: 16292544 DOI: 10.1007/s00234-005-0009-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2005] [Accepted: 07/28/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Reduced cerebral blood flow after severe head injury results in an increased risk of ischemic brain damage. Blood flow should therefore be monitored with a simple, reliable method. Transcranial color-coded Doppler sonography (TCCS) is an accepted tool for the diagnosis of cerebral vasospasm; however, its usefulness in evaluating patients with head injury has not been proven. Cerebral blood-flow velocity in the middle, anterior, and posterior cerebral arteries was measured with a 2.5 MHz probe (Aplio SSA 770A, Toshiba, Japan) in 36 subjects with moderate or severe head injury. Serial measurements of resistance index (RI), peak-systolic, end-diastolic, and mean velocity in the middle cerebral arteries were performed 2-24 h after head trauma and in the subsequent days during hospitalization. Immediately after head trauma, increased RI values, and unusually decreased blood-flow velocity (mainly in MCA) were observed. Microcirculation disturbances were suspected because the end-diastolic velocity had substantially diminished. Changes in blood-flow parameters correlated with the clinical state, and in most cases, a poor prognosis. In some patients, blood-flow velocity increased above the normal reference limit and this implied poor prognosis. Transcranial color-coded Doppler sonography is a reliable, repeatable, and accessible tool that provides information about cerebral blood-flow disturbances and may hold diagnostic and prognostic importance.
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- J Kochanowicz
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Bialystok, Kilinskiego 1, Bialystok, 15089, Poland
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Krejza J, Melhem ER. Quantitative diffusion tensor imaging of the brain in young adults shows age-related structural changes in gray and white matter. Acad Radiol 2005; 12:265-7. [PMID: 15766684 DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Krejza J, Ustymowicz A, Szylak A, Tomaszewski M, Hryniewicz A, Jawad A. Assessment of variability of renal blood flow Doppler parameters during the menstrual cycle in women. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2005; 25:60-69. [PMID: 15543538 DOI: 10.1002/uog.1771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To estimate variability of renal flow Doppler parameters during the menstrual cycle in young women, and to explore whether the parameters oscillate substantially throughout the cycle. METHODS The peak systolic, mean, and end-diastolic velocities, pulsatility (PI) and resistance (RI) indices, acceleration time (AT) and index (AI) of the right renal artery were measured nine times during the cycle with duplex sonography in 14 healthy women (age range, 23-25 years), and correlated with plasma concentrations of 17beta-estradiol and progesterone. Coefficient of variation (CV), interclass correlation (rho), and repeatability coefficients (RC) were used to measure the variability. RESULTS The measures of the variability for AI and AT were: CV = 45.4% and 37.3%; rho = 0.25 and 0.15; RC = 10.1 and 99.5, respectively. The CV for flow velocities varied from 24.1% to 25.5%, rho from 0.49 to 0.50, RC from 22.7 for end-diastolic to 63.3 for peak systolic velocity. The respective figures for PI and RI were: CV = 17% and 8.3%; rho = 0.21 and 0.29; RC = 0.53 and 0.15. Fluctuations of the flow parameters, hematocrit, hemoglobin, heart rate, and systolic blood pressure during the menstrual cycle were insignificant, while the diastolic blood pressure decreased by about 7 mmHg (P < 0.01) in the luteal phase. CONCLUSION The variability of renal flow Doppler parameters during the menstrual cycle in young healthy women is substantial. However, fluctuations of the values of the parameters throughout the cycle were non-significant.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Radiology, Bialystok University School of Medicine, Poland.
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Krejza J, Siemkowicz J, Sawicka M, Szylak A, Kochanowicz J, Mariak Z, Lewko J, Spektor V, Babikian V, Bert R. Oscillations of cerebrovascular resistance throughout the menstrual cycle in healthy women. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2003; 22:627-632. [PMID: 14689537 DOI: 10.1002/uog.907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Increased concentration of endogenous estrogen during a typical menstrual cycle has been shown to correlate with augmentation of blood flow through the internal carotid arteries (ICAs), which may be related to changes in vascular resistance within the brain. In this study we investigated the effects of endogenous estrogen and progesterone on cerebrovascular impedance in young healthy women. METHODS The blood flow in the ICA and the common (CCA) and external (ECA) carotid arteries was studied with duplex Doppler sonography. The resistance index (RI) was determined and correlated with plasma 17beta-estradiol concentration in 14 young healthy women throughout their menstrual cycle. RESULTS The concentration of 17beta-estradiol increased in the follicular phase of the cycle and reached a peak on day 14, whereas concentration of progesterone remained low. Along with an increase in estrogen concentration, the ICA RI had decreased from its initial level on average by 9.2% on day 13 and by 6.7% on day 14 (P < 0.05). In contrast, the trend of the ECA RI was to increase during the peak of estrogen concentration. There were no significant changes in the CCA RI or in the systolic blood pressure, heart rate, hematocrit and hemoglobin concentration through the menstrual cycle. CONCLUSIONS Estrogen-related augmentation of blood flow through the ICA is caused mainly by decreased cerebrovascular impedance, as shown by a decrease in the ICA RI. These changes in RI suggest that estrogen influences cerebral impedance mainly by altering the resistance of cerebral microvasculature.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Radiology, Bialystok Medical Academy, Bialystok, Poland.
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Krejza J, Rudziński W, Mariak Z. [Transcranial color-coded Doppler sonography: getting started]. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2002; 35 Suppl 5:101-9. [PMID: 11935669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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Transcranial color Doppler sonography, in contrary to conventional transcranial Doppler ultrasound, allows outlining of the parenchymal structures and visualization of the vessel examined. Angle-corrected blood velocities can be obtained which are closer to in-situ values. In this educational assay, we demonstrate cerebral vascular anatomy using 3-D MR angiographic images of the major cerebral arteries to show their relationship to neighboring structures, the acoustic window, and the ultrasound beam. We describe principles of the examination, and discuss the different types of physiological flow velocity spectra. We show how to identify with color Doppler ultrasonography the main intracranial arterial trunks, and how to avoid pitfalls caused by anatomic variability of their course and location. We draw attention on significant age and sex dependency of blood flow parameters which makes standardization of obtained transcranial Doppler results indispensable for clinical valuable concluding.
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- J Krejza
- Zakładu Radiologii Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku
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Krejza J, Mariak Z, Babikian VL. Importance of angle correction in the measurement of blood flow velocity with transcranial Doppler sonography. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2001; 22:1743-7. [PMID: 11673171 PMCID: PMC7974455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The angle of insonation cannot be assessed with conventional transcranial Doppler sonography. Findings in healthy control subjects suggest that the angle is relatively small in routine clinical practice. Data regarding the angle in middle cerebral artery (MCA) stenosis are scarce. In this study, the angle and its effect on flow velocity measurements were assessed with transcranial color Doppler sonography in patients with MCA stenosis. METHODS Eighteen patients (median age, 53 y; age range, 22-72 y) who satisfied qualifying criteria (eg, angiographically revealed unilateral MCA stenosis of > or =50%) were selected from 149 consecutive patients enrolled in a prospective study of transcranial color Doppler sonography and cerebral digital subtraction angiography. All had active neurologic symptoms. The angle of insonation and peak systolic and mean flow velocities in both MCAs were measured from videotapes generated at sonography. RESULTS The mean angle of insonation was 47 +/- 11 degrees (range, 19-64 degrees ) on the stenotic side and 34 +/- 18 degrees on the contralateral side (P <.05). Angle-corrected velocities were higher than uncorrected ones. Differences between angle-corrected and uncorrected peak systolic and mean flow velocities on the stenotic side were 46.6% and 45.9%, respectively, of uncorrected values. Differences between corrected and uncorrected peak systolic and mean velocities were larger on the stenotic side compared with those on the contralateral side (P <.05). CONCLUSION In patients with moderate or severe MCA stenosis, the angle of insonation can be substantial and cause large errors when flow velocities are measured without angle correction.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Radiology, Bialystok Medical Academy, Bialystok, Poland
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Dadan J, Łaszkiewicz J, Łebkowska U, Krejza J, Malla H, Ładny JR, Puchalski Z. [Malignant or benign thyroid nodules: a diagnostic dilemma]. Pol Merkur Lekarski 2001; 11:224-7. [PMID: 11761816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of cysts and cystoid-solid lesions in thyroid carcinomas basing on preoperative ultrasonographic examinations (USG), fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and postoperative histopathological examinations. 661 patients with different thyroid disorders were treated surgically. Carcinoma was found in 46 patients (3.9%). Papillary carcinoma was predominant (n = 34). Of the 46 patients with carcinoma, preoperative USG examination revealed cystic or cystoid-solid lesions in 18 patients (39%). FNAB of this 18 patients was positive in 5 cases, negative in 4 and suspect in 9. In 6 cases the neoplastic lesion was strictly connected with cysts (foci in the wall or in solid masses within the cyst) and in the remaining 12 patients lesions were found in the vicinity of the neoplastic focus. We conclude that malignant neoplasms of the thyroid gland are frequently (in approximately 40%) accompanied by cystic and cystoid-solid lesions, FNAB diagnostic material should be obtained even through several USG-controlled punctures and negative FNAB does not exclude thyroid carcinoma, particularly in nodular-cystoid goitre.
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- J Dadan
- I Klinika Chirurgii Ogólnej AM w Białymstoku
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This study was undertaken to assess the effect of ultrasound on human brain temperature in vivo. The investigation consisted of direct recording of intracranial temperature during color transcranial Doppler (TCD) sonography in a neurosurgical patient. The temperature was recorded from 3 thermocouples. One was implanted together with an intracranial pressure sensor into a surgically reduced intraparenchymal hematoma, the second was placed within the subdural space close to the temporal acoustic window, and the third was located extracranially at the outer surface of the temporal bone. Tympanic temperatures were also measured to give an approximation of global brain temperature. A 2.5-MHz transducer was used, and the system settings were as follows: spatial peak temporal average intensity = 234 mW/cm2 in B-mode at a maximum power of 32.3 mW and 2132 mW/cm2 in Doppler mode at a maximum power of 149.3 mW. Neither increase in the intraparenchymal brain temperature nor increase in the temperature at the bone/soft tissue interface was observed during 30 minutes of insonation. The ipsilateral tympanic temperature increased by only 0.06 degree C, and this value may be regarded as a measure of the overall increase in brain temperature. Passive cooling effect produced by the transducer, which was at ambient temperature, was found to reach the brain surface and to surpass any possible heating caused by the ultrasound. The results indicate that no noticeable increases in human brain temperature occur in response to ultrasound emitted by a color TCD device at high transmitter power settings within the diagnostic range.
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- Z Mariak
- Department of Neurosurgery, Bialystok Medical Academy, Sklodowskiej-Curie 24a, 15-279 Bialystok, Poland.
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Krejza J, Fryc J, Owlasiuk M, Huba M, Bert RJ, Mariak Z. Transcranial color Doppler sonography in the emergency diagnosis of middle cerebral artery occlusion in a patient after head injury. Clin Imaging 2001; 25:90-4. [PMID: 11483416 DOI: 10.1016/s0899-7071(01)00255-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The purpose of this report is to highlight the utility of transcranial color Doppler sonography (TCCDS) in the emergency diagnosis of an ischemic stroke in a 64-year-old patient after head injury. An emergency CT identified a subdural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, a brain contusion and edema. The patient's status deteriorated after admission, and a second CT revealed an intracerebral hematoma and marked mass effect. Transcranial color sonography revealed no flow in the ipsilateral middle and anterior cerebral arteries, which was consistent with ischemic stroke. This case demonstrates that transcranial color Doppler sonography performed early after head injury may be useful in detecting associated occlusion of cerebral vessels.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Radiology, Bialystok Medical Academy, Sklodowskiej-Curie 24a, 15-279 Bialystok, Poland.
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Swiercz M, Mariak Z, Krejza J, Lewko J, Szydlik P. Intracranial pressure processing with artificial neural networks: prediction of ICP trends. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2001; 142:401-6. [PMID: 10883336 DOI: 10.1007/s007010050449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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It is well known that intracranial pressure (ICP) is influenced by an array of predictable and unpredictable factors, which gives rise to a signal heavily loaded with stochastic, i.e. random components. Hence, statistical modelling of this signal has proved to be of limited utility, in spite of the very sophisticated mathematical methods applied. In recent years, neural network algorithms (ANN), which are an alternative to statistical methods, have proved their effectiveness in the prediction of trends, as applied in a variety of medical and non-medical tasks. We therefore attempted to test the efficiency of neural models in the on-line prediction of ICP values, compare their effectiveness to statistically oriented algorithms and combine ANN methods with some newer signal processing algorithms, like wavelet decomposition. Prediction horizons of up to 5 minutes have been tested with various architectures of the neural predictor. For a 3 minute prediction horizon, a satisfactory accuracy of forecasting has been achieved with "plain" ANN, as expressed by the "average relative variance coefficient". This was measured by the ratio of the prediction error obtained, in relation to the error which would occur if a current value were taken as the forecasted one. The prediction quality with statistical autoregressive models has proved unsatisfactory, whilst the result obtained using the ANN model with the wavelet transform incorporated, performed significantly better than the ANN models alone. The prediction quality obtained with the ANN methodology seems to be satisfactory over a short time horizon, though no conclusion can be derived at this stage of the study, as to the clinical utility of this method. In particular, even with this methodology, it is not possible to forecast any sudden dehiscencies of the ICP signal with any practical reliability. From the point of view of modelling theory, such sharp deviations of the signal may be regarded as a "catastrophe". This implies the necessity for a different approach to the ICP signal analysis with the artificial intelligence methodology; one, that is more oriented towards the global properties of the signal.
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- M Swiercz
- Electrical Department, Technical University of Bialystok, Poland
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Mariak Z, Swiercz M, Krejza J, Lewko J, Lyson T. Intracranial pressure processing with artificial neural networks: classification of signal properties. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2001; 142:407-11; discussion 411-2. [PMID: 10883337 DOI: 10.1007/s007010050450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Intracranial pressure (ICP) is commonly used by neurosurgeons as a source of valuable information about the current condition of the neurosurgical patient. Nevertheless, despite years of effort, extracting clinically valuable information from the ICP signal is still problematical. Approaches, using current values of ICP, may fail to disclose imminent risk, because unpredictable factors can rapidly change the properties of the signal. An alternative approach is to determine some global characteristics of the signal within a longer time interval and such statistical analyses have been proposed by several authors. A further, rarely considered, problem is assessment of the results obtained from the point of view of their practical utility and/or such classification of the obtained properties of the signal that they correspond to certain clinical states of the patient. While this might be a typical task for discriminant analysis, we approached the analysis using an alternative methodology, that of computational intelligence, implemented in artificial neural networks (ANN). We tested two variants of the ANN algorithms for classification and discrimination of global properties of the ICP signal. In a "dynamic pattern classification" the network was presented with several sections of ICP records together with information from the expert-neurosurgeon, classifying 4 risk groups. In this mode no data pre-processing was carried out, in contrast to our second approach, in which the signal had been pre-processed using published statistical analyses and only these intermediate coefficients were fed into the ANN classifier. The results obtained with both classification methods at their current stage of training were similar and approximated to a 70% rate of judgements consistent with the expert scoring. Nevertheless, the method based on the assessment of global parameters from the ICP record looks more promising, because it leaves the possibility for modification of the set of parameters analysed. The new parameters may include information extracted not only from the ICP signal, but also from other diagnostic modalities, like colour coded Doppler ultrasonography. The ultimate goal of this work is to build up a pseudo-intelligent computer expert system, which would be able to reason from a reduced set of input information, available from a standard monitoring modality, because it had been taught salient links between these data and higher-order data, upon which expert scoring was based.
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- Z Mariak
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Academy Bialystok, Poland
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recent evidence suggests that physiological changes in the concentration of endogenous estrogens may influence stroke outcome. The purpose of this study was to determine a menstrual cycle-related profile of blood flow through the carotid arteries and its correlation with estrogen concentration. METHODS The flow velocity and cross-sectional area of the common carotid artery, internal carotid artery (ICA), and external carotid artery (ECA) were measured with duplex Doppler sonography throughout the menstrual cycle in 14 healthy women. Concentration of plasma 17beta-estradiol, progesterone, hematocrit, hemoglobin, and blood pressure were also determined. RESULTS In the follicular phase, the concentration of estrogen increased to reach a peak on day 14, whereas concentration of progesterone remained low. The mean and end-diastolic velocities in the ICA increased on average by 15% of their base values, along with increasing concentrations of estrogen (r=0.59 and 0.65, respectively). The profile of flow velocity changes in this artery corresponded to the profile of estrogen concentration. In contrast to the ICA, flow velocities in the ECA decreased from their base value, reaching their minimum in the luteal phase. The mean flow velocity in the common carotid artery increased on day 14 by just 2% of its base value. The lumen of the carotid arteries was stable throughout the cycle. Hematocrit, hemoglobin, and systolic blood pressure also remained unchanged. CONCLUSIONS Increased concentration of endogenous estrogen correlates with substantial augmentation of flow in the internal carotid artery. This promotion of flow is caused mainly by decreased cerebrovascular resistance with consequent "stealing" of blood from the ECA.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Radiology, Bialystok Medical Academy, Bialystok, Poland.
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Krejza J, Mariak Z, Bert RJ. Transcranial colour Doppler sonography in emergency management of intracerebral haemorrhage caused by an arteriovenous malformation: case report. Neuroradiology 2000; 42:900-4. [PMID: 11198209 DOI: 10.1007/s002340000446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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We present a case which demonstrates the use of transcranial colour Doppler (TCCD) sonography in screening for an underlying arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in a middle-aged hypertensive patient with a spontaneous thalamic haematoma. The AVM was not detected on emergency CT but its presence, site and shape were demonstrated by TCCD, in the presence of a massive cerebral haemorrhage and acute intracranial hypertension.
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- J Krejza
- Department of Neuroradiology, Białystok Medical Academy, Skłodowskiej-Curie 24a, 15-279 Białystok, Poland.
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Mariak Z, Swiercz M, Krejza J, Lewko J, Lyson T. [Analysis of intracranial pressure signals using artificial neural networks]. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2000; 34:1209-23. [PMID: 11317497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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Intracranial pressure (ICP) is influenced by an array of predictable and unpredictable factors. Statistical modelling of this signal has only limited applicability because of the significant load of stochastic components. We tested the efficiency of an alternative approach, based on the methodology of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in the on-line prediction of future values of ICP and in the classification of signal properties. Satisfactory accuracy of forecasting was achieved with the ANNs for a 3-minute prediction horizon, while the prediction quality with autoregressive models of statistical origin was proved unsatisfactory. The results obtained with the ANNs were further improved when signal pre-processing with wavelet transform was employed. Nevertheless, even with the ANN methodology, no sudden breakdowns in the ICP signal (which in this respect might be compared to a "catastrophe") can be forecast with any practical applicability. We therefore applied two ANN algorithms, oriented at classification and discrimination of the global properties of the ICP signal. The neural network was expected to discriminate those sets of signal properties, which were assumed to correspond to certain clinical conditions of the patient. In a "dynamic pattern classification" the network was presented with several sections of ICP records. This was combined with information about the assignment of a given record to one of four arbitrary classes of danger. In this mode no data pre-processing was carried out, in contrast to our second approach, in which the signal was pre-processed with statistical analyses and only these intermediate coefficients were fed to the ANN classifier. The results obtained with both classification methods at their present stage of training were similar and approximated to a 70% rate of judgements consistent with expert scoring. Nevertheless, the method based on the assessment of global parameters of the ICP record seems more promising, because it leaves the possibility of extending the set of training data by information from other diagnostic modalities. The study aims towards the development of a pseudo-intelligent computer expert system, which has would be taught salient links between data extracted from the ICP signal and higher- order data, which contributed to the expert score. Hence the system would be able to make decisions on the basis of a reduced set of input information, available from a standard monitoring modality.
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- Z Mariak
- Kliniki Neurochirurgii Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku.
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Ustymowicz A, Krejza J, Tarasów E, Mariak Z, Proniewska-Skretek E. [Variations of Doppler blood flow parameters in central retinal artery in relation to position of sample volume]. Klin Oczna 2000; 101:441-4. [PMID: 10786052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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PURPOSE To determine variability in measurements of Doppler blood flow parameters in central retinal artery in relation to sample volume location from the optic disc. MATERIAL AND METHOD Eighty central retinal arteries were examined using color Doppler ultrasonography in 40 healthy volunteers (22 female, 18 male), aged 45 +/- 9 with 7.5 MHz linear-array probe. The measurements of blood velocities and resistance indices in the arteries were obtained at points where distance from optic disc surface ranged from 1.5 mm to 6 mm. RESULTS Blood velocities increased significantly when sampled closer to the globe (r = -0.61, and r = -0.32 for peak-systolic and end-diastolic velocities, respectively). Mean peak-systolic velocities were 13.0 +/- 2.7 cm/s when distance 2.1 +/- 0.46 mm from optic disc, and 9.3 +/- 2.5 cm/s when distance 4.27 +/- 0.9 mm. Mean end-diastolic velocities were 4.3 +/- 1.2 cm/s and 3.6 +/- 1.1 cm/s, respectively. Resistance indices inclined to increase when the distance between the measurement site and the globe shortened. Resistance indices were 0.67 +/- 0.06 when measured closer to the globe and 0.60 +/- 0.06 when measured farther from it. CONCLUSION Position of sample volume in relation to optic disc has to be taken into account and defined if measurements of blood flow Doppler parameters of the central retinal artery are to be reproducible.
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Ustymowicz A, Krejza J, Tarasów E, Mariak Z, Zalewska R, Proniewska-Skretek E, Stankiewicz A. [Blood flow parameters in ocular vessels of patients with glaucoma]. Klin Oczna 2000; 101:445-9. [PMID: 10786053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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PURPOSE To determine Doppler flow parameters in ocular vessels of glaucomatous patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS 38 glaucomatous patients, aged 64 +/- 16, and 57 healthy volunteers were examined with 7.5 MHz linear-array probe. Consistently identified arterial structures included ophthalmic artery, central retinal artery and short posterior ciliary arteries. The peak systolic, end-diastolic and mean velocities were measured from Doppler spectra. Resistance and pulsatility indices were also determined. RESULTS End-diastolic and mean velocities in central retinal artery of glaucomatous eyes were: 1.5 +/- 1.9 cm/s, 4.0 +/- 2.0 cm/s, whereas in healthy eyes they were significantly higher: 3.5 +/- 1.0 cm/s, 5.4 +/- 1.5 cm/s, respectively. These velocities in short posterior ciliary arteries in glaucomatous patients were significantly lower: 2.4 +/- 2.3 cm/s, 5.6 +/- 2.2 cm/s, comparing to healthy subjects: 4.8 +/- 1.7 cm/s, 7.3 +/- 2.2 cm/s. Resistance and pulsatility indices in central retinal artery and short posterior ciliary arteries were significantly higher in the group of patients: RI = 0.85 +/- 0.18, PI = 2.11 +/- 0.92--in central retinal artery and RI = 0.81 +/- 0.18, PI = 1.96 +/- 0.91--in short posterior ciliary arteries, comparing to healthy subjects: RI = 0.61 +/- 0.08, PI = 1.20 +/- 0.17--in central retinal artery, RI = 0.61 +/- 0.09, PI = 1.13 +/- 0.18--in short posterior ciliary arteries. Impedance indices were increasing progressively with intraocular pressure elevation. There were no significant differences of Doppler blood flow parameters in ophthalmic artery between patients and control group. CONCLUSIONS Blood flow velocities in central retinal and short posterior ciliary arteries are lower, and resistance and pulsatility indices are higher in glaucomatous eyes in comparison to healthy subjects, whereas in ophthalmic artery doppler parameters are similar in both groups.
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Szydlik P, Mariak Z, Krejza J, Swiercz M, Keller A. [Transcranial color Doppler estimation of blood flow parameters in respective basal cerebral arteries in healthy subjects]. Neurol Neurochir Pol 2000; 34:523-36. [PMID: 10979545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Transcranial colour-coded Doppler sonography enables estimation of blood flow parameters in the basal cerebral arteries. Reference values as well as age and gender dependence of these parameters are not sufficiently established in transcranial Doppler studies. There are no reports regarding blood flow in the respective arteries of the circle of Willis. Therefore we examined 185 healthy volunteers--82 men (mean age 47, range 20-78 years old) and 103 women (mean age 47, range 22-86 years old). The subjects were divided into three age groups: 20-40 years old (group I), 41-60 years old (group II) and more than 60 years old (group III). The examinations were performed via the temporal acoustic window with a 2.5 MHz probe. Angle-corrected peak systolic, mean and end-diastolic velocities as well as impedance indices were determined in the anterior, middle and posterior cerebral arteries. In the group I mean velocity values (mean +/- SD) for the anterior, middle and posterior arteries amounted to 56 +/- 14 cm/s, 81 +/- 20 cm/s and 52 +/- 12 cm/s, respectively. In group II the values were 53 +/- 16 cm/s, 73 +/- 19 cm/s and 51 +/- 12 cm/s, and in group III the values were 44 +/- 11 cm/s, 59 +/- 11 cm/s and 40 +/- 9 cm/s. Decline in the blood flow velocities and increase in the impedance indices were found in all vessels with advancing age. This was most pronounced in subjects who were more than 40 years old. The decrease with age in blood flow velocities was more substantial in the middle cerebral arteries than in the anterior and posterior cerebral arteries. In contrast, the impedance indices increased more distinctly in the anterior cerebral arteries than in the middle and posterior cerebral arteries. We have demonstrated that the blood flow Doppler parameters are age and, in the group I (20-40 years old), also gender dependent. The range of the normal reference values of these parameters has proved to be wide. Decrease with age in blood flow velocities was found to be varied in the major cerebral arteries.
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- P Szydlik
- Kliniki Neurochirurgii Akademii Medycznej w Białymstoku
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Krejza J, Mariak Z, Melhem ER, Bert RJ. A guide to the identification of major cerebral arteries with transcranial color Doppler sonography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2000; 174:1297-303. [PMID: 10789782 DOI: 10.2214/ajr.174.5.1741297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- J Krejza
- Department of Radiology, Bialystok Medical Academy, Poland
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