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Investigating the Climate-Growth Response of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Northern Poland.
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Atmosphere . Dec2021, Vol. 12 Issue 12, p1690-1690. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Research Highlights: This study used a 99-year time-series of daily climatic data to determine the climate-growth relationship for Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) growing in Northern Poland. The use of daily climatic data improved the calculated climatic response of the trees. Background and Objectives: It was hypothesised that daily temperature and precipitation data would more precisely identify climate–growth relationships than monthly data. We compared our results to a previous study conducted in the 1990s that utilised monthly precipitation and temperature data. Materials and Methods: The chronology construction and data analyses were performed using CooRecorder, CDendro and R packages (dplR, treeclim, dendrotools). Forty-nine cores from 31 trees were included in the final chronology. Results: The precipitation and temperature of March had the strongest influence upon ring-widths. Despite a statistically significant correlation between monthly temperature and ring-widths, reduction of error (RE) and coefficient of efficiency (CE) statistics confirmed that daily data better describe the effect of climate on tree rings width than monthly data. Conclusions: At this site, the growing season of Scots pine has changed with the observed association with precipitation now starting as early as February–March and extending to June–July. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *TREE-rings
*SCOTS pine
*GROWING season
*DATA analysis
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20734433
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Atmosphere
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154316028
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12121690