Individualistic and time-varying tree-ring growth to climate sensitivity.

ABSTRACT: The development of dendrochronological time series in order to analyze climate-growth relationships usually involves first a rigorous selection of trees and then the computation of the mean tree-growth measurement series. This study suggests a change in the perspective, passing from an analysis of climate-growth relationships that typically focuses on the mean response of a species to investigating the whole range of individual responses among sample trees. Results highlight that this new approach, tested on a larch and stone pine tree-ring dataset, outperforms, in terms of information obtained, the classical one, with significant improvements regarding the strength, distribution and time-variability of the individual tree-ring growth response to climate. Moreover, a significant change ove

SUBMITTER: Carrer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3145760 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature