o:3776 CLIMATE CHARACTERISTICS AND DIAMETER INCREMENT OF EASTERN WHITE PINE: POTENTIAL USE IN AFFORESTATION IN THE BELGRADE AREA (REPUBLIC OF SERBIA) KLIMATSKE KARAKTERISTIKE I DEBLJINSKI PRIRAST BOROVCA: POTENCIJALNA UPOTREBA U POŠUMLJAVANJU NA PODRUČJU BEOGRADA (REPUBLIKA SRBIJA) en The impact of climate change on forest ecosystems is becoming increasingly apparent. Research indicates that rising air temperatures affect the state of biodiversity, a range of ecological processes, as well as the dynamics of developmental characteristics of individual trees (Ratknić T. et al., 2019a; Dimitrijević T. et al., 2022; Dimitrijević T. et al., 2023). This study investigates how climate affects the size of earlywood, latewood, and the total current increment of Pinus strobus trees in Belgrade. Data related to site changes are compared to site characteristics in its natural sites in North America. The climate model REG_IN indicates that newly emerging site conditions will hinder the establishment of new pine plantations in the urban forests of Belgrade. According to the aridity index (FAI) for the period 2081-2100, the FAI is estimated to reach 7.4, indicating a forest-steppe climate. All the analyses suggest that the emerging conditions will prevent the introduction of Pinus strobus into the urban forests of Belgrade. Pinus strobus, climate change, REG_IN model, earlywood, latewood, total increment 1552099 10.5937/SustFor2388099D 1552101 1821-1046 2024-01-16T17:49:03.444Z 44 yes 46 Tatjana DIMITRIJEVIC 0000-0002-6333-7079 46 Mihailo RATKNIC 46 Sabahudin HADROVIC 0000-0002-4820-7938 application/pdf 509532 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:3776 no yes 16 70 1552253 Sustainable Forestry: Collection 87-88 99 113 Институт за шумарство, Београд, Србија 2023