RECONSTRUCTION OF SUMMER MONTH TEMPERATURES BASED ON SCOTS PINE TREE RINGS (PINUS SYLVESTRIS L.), GROWING IN THE PECHORA RIVER BASIN
https://doi.org/10.7868/S2587556618020061
Abstract
Cores of Scots pine growing in northern taiga on the northern limit of distribution in lichen pine forests in the Pechora River basin are collected with purpose to reveal most suitable for climatic reconstructions tree-ring parameters. Tree-ring width has a weak mixed signal of temperature and precipitations of previous and current years and, therefore, cannot be used for reconstruction. Maximum optical density has shown a very perspective temperature signal for reconstruction in area under study. Northern island pine forests have stronger signal, in comparison with the pine forests growing in 100 km to the south, in a zone of continuous pine forest. Reconstruction of June–August temperature for the last 200 years is executed for the first time. The obtained data have correlated with the reconstruction by chronologies of the maximal density of pine from Fennoskandia and Eurasia.
Keywords
Scots pine,
Pechora River basin,
tree-ring width,
maximal wood density,
tree-ring chronologies,
reconstruction of June-August temperature
Supporting agencies: Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects no. 14-04-91356; 15-04-04933) and Urals Branch of the RAS (project no. 15-2-4-22)
About the Authors
M. A. Gurskaya
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina A. Gurskaya
Yekaterinburg
V. V. Kukarskih
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Vladimir V. Kukarskih
Yekaterinburg
E. Lange
Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Greifswald University
Germany
Germany
Elena Lange
Greifswald
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1. Temperature signal in tree-ring width and maximal wood density chronologies of Scots pine and temperature reconstructions, based on wood density in forest-tundra (1) and in northern taiga (2) in the Pechora river basin. | |
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- The width of Scots pine tree rings has a mixed temperature signal of two growing periods (previous and current) and cannot be used for temperature reconstructions.
- Maximum wood density chronologies have a stable temperature signal in June-August of a current year.
- Air temperature has been reconstructed according to the maximum wood density the first time for the study area.
- Extreme cold years were identified for the last 200 years for the study area.
- Similarities for the Northern Hemisphere and regional differences in extreme years are shown.
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Gurskaya M.A., Kukarskih V.V., Lange E. RECONSTRUCTION OF SUMMER MONTH TEMPERATURES BASED ON SCOTS PINE TREE RINGS (PINUS SYLVESTRIS L.), GROWING IN THE PECHORA RIVER BASIN. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(2):59-73. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.7868/S2587556618020061
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