Blue rings in trees and shrubs as indicators of early and late summer cooling events at the northern treeline.

ABSTRACT: The high temperature sensitivity of pine trees in northern Fennoscandia has led to some of the most reliable tree-ring climate reconstructions in the world for the past millennia. However, wood anatomical anomalies that likely reflect temperature-induced reductions in cell wall lignification, the so-called Blue Rings (BRs), have not yet been systematically investigated in trees and shrubs in northern Europe. Here, we present frontier research on the occurrence of BRs in Pinus sylvestris trees and Juniperus communis (L) s.l. shrubs from the upper treeline in northern Norway (69°N) in relation to instrumental temperature data covering the last ca. 150 years. The highest number of BRs was found in 1902, with 96% of Pinus trees and 68% of Juniperus shrubs showing BR

SUBMITTER: Buchwal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11793999 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature