No systematic effects of sampling direction on climate-growth relationships in a large-scale, multi-species tree-ring data set

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/19:00509652 RIV/62690094:18470/19:50016181

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125624" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125624</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125624" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125624</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

No systematic effects of sampling direction on climate-growth relationships in a large-scale, multi-species tree-ring data set

Original language description

Ring-width series are important for diverse fields of research such as the study of past climate, forest ecology, forest genetics, and the determination of origin (dendro-provenancing) or dating of archaeological objects. Recent research suggests diverging climate-growth relationships in tree-rings due to the cardinal direction of extracting the tree cores (i.e. direction-specific effect). This presents an understudied source of bias that potentially affects many data sets in tree-ring research. In this study, we investigated possible direction-specific growth variability based on an international (10 countries), multi-species (8 species) tree-ring width network encompassing 22 sites. To estimate the effect of direction-specific growth variability on climate-growth relationships, we applied a combination of three methods: An analysis of signal strength differences, a Principal Component Gradient Analysis and a test on the direction-specific differences in correlations between indexed ring-widths series and climate variables. We found no evidence for systematic direction-specific effects on tree radial growth variability in high-pass filtered ring-width series. In addition, direction-specific growth showed only marginal effects on climate-growth correlations. These findings therefore indicate that there is no consistent bias caused by coring direction in data sets used for diverse dendrochronological applications on relatively mesic sites within forests in flat terrain, as were studied here. However, in extremely dry, warm or cold environments, or on steep slopes, and for different life-forms such as shrubs, further research is advisable.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40102 - Forestry

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-17295S" target="_blank" >GA18-17295S: Climate and air pollution effects on forest productivity</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Dendrochronologia

ISSN

1125-7865

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

125624

UT code for WoS article

000487961100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85071891118