Floodplain Forests Are Sensitive to Salt-Intrusion During Summer Droughts When Dominated by Salix
Eleonora Saccon, Suzanne J M H Hulscher, Tjeerd J Bouma, Johan van de Koppel · 2026
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Description
Eleonora Saccon and co-authors drench floodplain trees in salt water, season by season, to see when it hurts most, in a 2026 study. Rising seas and summer droughts push salt up estuaries into the last temperate freshwater floodplain forests. White willow and black alder, the two dominant trees, each got a week of salt stress in spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Willow suffered badly from spring and summer exposure, growing almost nothing in height or girth and recovering poorly the next spring. The same dose in autumn or winter barely touched it. Alder proved hardier overall. Timing, the study shows, is destiny: as salt intrusions shift into the growing season under climate change, willow-dominated forests stand in the front line. River managers may need to defend summer freshwater flows, not just annual averages.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Eleonora Saccon, Suzanne J M H Hulscher, Tjeerd J Bouma, Johan van de Koppel |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |