Assessing site signal preservation in reference chronologies for dendro-provenancing.

ABSTRACT: Regional differences in tree growth can be used to approximate the geographical provenance of ring-width series ('dendro-provenancing'). This method relies on cross-dated ring-width series (reference chronologies) that are thought to represent the radial growth signal of trees in a given region. Reference chronologies are often established from ring-width series of living tree populations. Frequently, they are too short to allow for investigating the provenance of historical wood. Thus, references are extended by ring-width series from buildings and art-historical objects that exhibit best matching growth patterns with the living tree references. Yet, series from other provenances may erroneously be included. Thereby the local or regional growth signal of the references is progressively co

SUBMITTER: Gut U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7514070 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature