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Dendrochronologia
Urban und Fischer Verlag
Dendrochronologia

Urban und Fischer Verlag

1125-7865

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    Warming induced tree-growth decline of Toona ciliata in (sub-) tropical southwestern China

    Sharma, BimalFan, Ze-XinPanthi, ShankarGaire, Narayan Prasad...
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要：Tropical forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle and climate regulation. However, our understanding of how Asian tropical forest growth responds to climatic variations is still limited. We developed tree ring-width chronologies of Toona ciliata from 90 trees (139 cores) from two study regions in the tropical/subtropical forests in Yunnan, southwestern China. Bootstrapped correlation analysis revealed positive moisture sensitivity (precipitation, self-calibrated Palmer drought severity index, relative humidity, and soil moisture) and negative temperature sensitivity of T. ciliata, and the relationship was strongest during dry and/or dry-to-wet transition months, indicating that radial growth of T. ciliata is primarily limited by moisture availability during early growing season. Furthermore, radial growth of T. ciliata was significantly and negatively correlated with the vapor pressure deficit and potential evapotranspiration during dry and/or dry-to-wet transition months. We analyzed long-term growth trends of T. ciliata using 'size class isolation' (SCI) and 'generalized additive mixed models' (GAMM) approaches which remove the effects of tree size on tree growth. We detected decreasing growth trend for both approaches at both study regions, indicating that the growth decline of T. ciliata stands in southwestern China is likely due to global warming-induced moisture deficit. The growth of T. ciliata trees is likely to continually decline under projected warming and drying conditions. The observed growth declines of T. ciliata raised concerns about developing sustainable management and conservation programs for tropical/ subtropical forests in China.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier

    Climate response of radial growth and early selection of Larix olgensis at four trials in northeast China

    Zhang, HengZhang, ShikaiSong, WenqiTigabu, Mulualem...
    11页
    查看更多>>摘要：The objective of this study was to evaluate the age trends of genetic variation in radial growth of different provenances and growth-climate relationship in different locations. Tree-ring cores of 10 L. olgensis provenances were sampled from four representative trials with different climatic conditions in 2019. The results of ANOVA show that significant differences for DBH at different ages were detected among provenances within sites, except for 10, 11, 37, and 38 years at LS. The phenotypic and genetic coefficient of variation in different sites were generally decreased with age. Although there were large fluctuations for provenance repeatability at different ages across sites, they all belonged to high repeatability. Age-age correlations show that the early selection for DBH could be made at the age of 10 years at the semi-arid area in Heilongjiang province and the southeast slope of Xiaoxing'an Mountains, while the ages for early selection at the southeastern slope of Daxing'an Mountains and the western slope of Zhangguangcai Mountain were 13 and 12 years old, respectively. The results of growth climate relationships showed that temperature and precipitation played key roles in the radial growth of larch at each site. In the semi-arid area in Heilongjiang province, radial growth showed significant correlations with August temperature (positive) of the current year, and with previous May temperature (negative) and November temperature (positive), and previous December precipitation (positive). The current June temperature (negative) and precipitation (positive) were important factors affecting the radial growth at the southeastern slope of Daxing'an Mountains. July temperature of the current year had a negative relationship with larch growth at the southeast slope of Xiaoxing'an Mountains, while there were no significant correlations between radial growth and climatic factors at the western slope of Zhangguangcai Mountain. The results reported in this study provide a valuable insight about early selection for different sites and can serve as a reference for future breeding and improvement research.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier

    Contrasting climate signals across a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) tree-ring network in the Middle Volga (European Russia)

    Kuznetsova, Veronika V.Solomina, Olga N.
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要：Since the late-19th century, the Middle Volga has played a major role in the supplying grains and other agricultural products to European Russia. The study area is located in the south of sub-boreal forest in the north and in the forest-steppe in the south. Due to large seasonal differences in rainfall, agriculture in the region, especially in its southern part, strongly depends on hydroclimate variability. According to climate model forecasts, the frequency and intensity of droughts in the Middle Volga are expected to increase due to ongoing warming. Here we introduce 16 new Scots pine tree ring width (TRW) chronologies (Pinus sylvestris L.) from the region and use a dendroclimatological approach to determine what climatic factors drive radial growth. Our analysis revealed contrasting climate signals across the network of sites with chronologies from the north showing weak correlation with May temperature and precipitation (r = -0.27 and r = 0.28, respectively), while the southern sites demonstrated stronger relationships with climate in the first half of the vegetation season (May to July temperature, r = -0.26 to -0.43; May and July precipitation, r = 0.29-0.35). The northern sites did not demonstrate a strong growth response to the self-calibrated Palmer drought severity index (scPDSI) whereas the southern group was more drought sensitive had a strong drought response and positively correlates with scPDSI for the period from previous July to the current October (r = 0.27-0.56). Based on this strong relationship between southern TRW and scPDSI we reconstruct June-September scPDSI using the most sensitive sites (T04S, T06S, T08S) for the period from 1830 to 2014. The model explains 31% of variance. Our reconstruction shows droughts in 19th century: in 1831-33, 1851, 1853, 1859, 1863-65, 1880, 1891-92, 1897-98 and in 20-21th centuries: in 1906, 1921, 1936, 1939, 1967, 1975, 1996, 2010.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier

    The temperature sensitivity along elevational gradients is more stable in maximum latewood density than tree-ring width

    Hartl, ClaudiaSchneider, LeaRiechelmann, Dana F. C.Kuhl, Eileen...
    9页
    查看更多>>摘要：Tree ring-based temperature reconstructions are preferably derived from maximum latewood density (MXD) compared to tree-ring width (TRW). Although temperature signals in MXD are less dependent on site ecology, systematic analyses of the effects of elevation and slope aspect on ring formation are still lacking. Here, we assess the climate sensitivity of MXD and TRW chronologies from six larch (Larix decidua Mill.) sites across the Simplon valley in the southwestern Swiss Alps, representing elevations from 1400 to 2150 m asl on both north-and south facing slopes. We find decreasing temperature signals with decreasing elevation in MXD and TRW, though correlation coefficients are generally higher for MXD and on the warmer and dryer south exposed slopes. While the greatest temperature signals are found for MJJA at highest elevations with r = 0.71 for MXD and r = 0.57 for TRW (both p < 0.05 and for the 1928-2009 common period), MXD still correlates significantly positive at the lowest elevation site that is ~750 m below the treeline. Our findings indicate the suitability of MXD over TRW for temperature reconstructions when using historical wood sources of unknown origin.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier

    Dieter Eckstein - A cornerstone of European dendrochronology

    Klaassen, Ute SassWrobel, SigridSmith, Kevin T.Cufar, Katarina...
    3页
    查看更多>>摘要：On November 10th 2021, Dieter Eckstein passed away at age 82. Born and raised as a forester's child, his entire life was connected to trees and wood. He grew up to become a dedicated scientist and teacher. His legacy includes both his own considerable research accomplishments as well as his founding of a growing network of tree biologists and wood scientists. From his doctoral degree onwards, the concepts and applications of dendrochronology were his passion, motivated by great curiosity in environmental influences on tree growth. He proved that dendroarchaeology can be accurate and precise, even for timber grown in the mild European maritime climate. He pioneered both techniques and concepts of xylogenesis and quantitative wood anatomy and advanced the potential for tropical dendrochronology. In all of these accomplishments, Dieter collaborated with students and colleagues from all over the world. His Dendrochronological Laboratory at the University of Hamburg hosted both young and experienced scientists from many countries. The European Working Group on Dendrochronology, which he founded in the early 1990s, was his natural habitat and playground to invent and present new research activities. We and the entire dendrochronology community have lost an inspiring colleague and visionary.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier

    High-elevation tree-ring record of 263-year summer temperature for a cold-arid region in the western Himalaya, India

    Singh, VikramMisra, Krishna G.Yadav, Ram R.Yadava, Akhilesh K....
    10页
    查看更多>>摘要：The unavailability of weather records from the orography dominated high Himalayas restricts our understanding in long term perspective. However, remote high-altitude regions of Himalaya silently testify the regional climate and can provide valuable insights of real climatic challenges in the absence of instrumental observatories. The tree-species over such high-altitude regions with negligible anthropogenic pressure have the potential to reveal the clear climate upheavals in long-term perspective. In the present study tree-ring samples of Himalayan birch from a high-altitude cold-arid region of Lahaul-Spiti, Himachal Pradesh were analysed and two ring-width chronologies were developed. The response function analyses showed direct relationship between the summer temperature and ring-width chronologies of Himalayan birch. Using the relationship we have reconstructed mean summer temperature (June-July) back to AD 1752 for the Lahaul-Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh. We have developed the first record of summer temperature from the Indian western Himalaya using tree-ring-width chronologies that have direct relationship with summer temperature. Further, our study in accordance with instrumental as well as other tree-ring based summer temperature records suggested that the high-altitude western Himalaya is not warming unprecedently during summers. However, slight warming pattern have been observed in the summer temperature in the later part of the reconstruction. The temperature reconstruction also reflects strong spatial correlation with gridded temperature for the western Himalaya.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier

    Sample preparation protocol for wood and phloem formation analyses

    Prislan, PeterCastillo, Edurne Martinez delSkoberne, GregorSpenko, Neza...
    4页
    查看更多>>摘要：This technical note and its corresponding video show the procedure for optimal sample preparation to perform wood and phloem formation analyses.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier

    Sex and tree rings: Females neither grow less nor are less water-use efficient than males in four dioecious tree species

    Garcia-Barreda, SergiSanguesa-Barreda, GabrielGarcia-Gonzalez, Maria DoloresCamarero, J. Julio...
    8页
    查看更多>>摘要：Females of woody dioecious species usually expend more resources on reproduction than males. Therefore, it is expected that females incur greater costs of reproduction than males, and, as a result, trade-offs between reproduction and growth should emerge. The aim of this study is to test those hypotheses by analyzing the differences between genders regarding radial growth (basal area increment) and wood carbon isotope composition (delta C-13), a proxy of water-use efficiency. We compared these two variables in males and females of four dioecious tree species inhabiting drought-prone Mediterranean sites in Spain (Pistacia terebinthus, Ilex aquifolium, Juniperus thurifera and Ailanthus altissima). We analyzed the influence of sex on the radial growth patterns throughout the tree life considering the growth stage of individuals, the differences in the response of genders to climate variables (air temperature, precipitation and drought severity), and the delta C-13 during a severe drought period. One site was studied for each species and 21-33 trees per species were sampled in each site. No differences in growth were found between genders for any of the four species throughout their life span. No significant interactions between gender and precipitation were found, although A. altissima males were more responsive to summer (June-July) temperature. No differences in delta C-13 were found between genders excepting for P. terebinthus, indicating that the males of this species show a less efficient water use during drought events than the females. These results do not support the broad assumption that females of woody dioecious plants show lower growth and are less water-use efficient than males or that they respond differently to precipitation variability, except for P. terebinthus during drought events. Further analyses could be performed in other dioecious species inhabiting seasonally dry regions to confirm or reject our conclusions.
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    • NSTL
    • Elsevier