X-ray microdensitometry applied to subfossil tree-rings: Growth characteristics of ancient pines from the southern boreal forest zone in Finland at intra-annual to centennial time-scales

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 675-686

  Helama, Samuli ^a   Vartiainen, Matti ^b   Kolström, Taneli ^b   Peltola, Heli ^b   Meriläinen, Jouko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Little ice age; Medieval warm period; Pinus sylvestris; Tree ring densitometry; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 55949088030     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0147-9     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. T Ahti L Hämet-Ahti J Jalas 1968 Vegetation zones and their sections in northwestern Europe Ann Bot Fenn 3 169 211
2. RW Aniol 1983 Tree-ring analysis using CATRAS Dendrochronologia 1 45 53
3. U Bergsten J Lindeberg A Ringdby R Evans 2001 Batch measurements of wood density on intact or prepared drill cores using X-ray microdensitometry Wood Sci Technol 35 435 452
4. F Biondi TW Swetnam 1987 Box-Jenkins models of forest interior tree-ring chronologies Tree Ring Bull 47 71 96
5. R Bradley PD Jones 1993 'Little-Ice Age' summer temperature variations: their nature and relevance to recent global warming trends Holocene 3 367 376
6. RS Bradley MK Hughes HF Diaz 2003 Climate in medieval time Science 302 404 405
7. Briffa KR, Schweingruber FH (1992) Recent dendroclimatic evidence of northern and central European summer temperatures. In: Bradley RS, Jones PD (eds) Climate since a.d. 1500. Routledge, London, pp 366-392
8. KR Briffa PD Jones FH Schweingruber 1988 Summer temperature patterns over Europe: A reconstruction from 1750 a.d. based on maximum latewood density indices of coniferous Quat Res 30 36 52
9. KR Briffa TS Bartholin D Eckstein PD Jones W Karlen FH Schweingruber P Zetterberg 1990 A 1,400-year tree-ring record of summer temperatures in Fennoscandia Nature 346 434 439
10. KR Briffa PD Jones TS Bartholin D Eckstein FH Schweingruber W Karlen P Zetterberg M Eronen 1992 Fennoscandian summers from AD 500: temperature changes on short and long timescales Clim Dyn 7 111 119
11. KR Briffa PD Jones FH Schweingruber SG Shiyatov ER Cook 1995 Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia Nature 376 156 159
12. Briffa KR, Jones PD, Schweingruber FH, Karlén W, Shiyatov SG (1996) Tree-ring variables as proxy-climate indicators: problems with low-frequency signals. In: Jones PD, Bradley RS, Jouzel J (eds) Climate variations and forcing mechanisms of the last 2000 years. Springer, Berlin, pp 9-41
13. KR Briffa TJ Osborn FH Schweingruber IC Harris PD Jones SG Shiyatov E Vaganov 2001 Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree ring density network J Geophys Res 106 D3 2929 2941
14. KR Briffa TJ Osborn FH Schweingruber PD Jones SG Shiyatov EA Vaganov 2002 Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 1, local and regional climate signals Holocene 12 737 751
15. KR Briffa TJ Osborn FH Schweingruber PD Jones SG Shiyatov EA Vaganov 2002 Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 2, spatio-temporal variability and associated climate patterns Holocene 12 759 789
16. U Büntgen DC Frank D Nievergelt J Esper 2006 Summer temperature variations in the European Alps, ad 755-2004 J Clim 19 5606 5623
17. Cook ER (1985) A time-series analysis approach to tree-ring standardization, Doctoral thesis. University of Arizona, Tucson
18. ER Cook 1987 The decomposition of tree-ring series for environmental studies Tree Ring Bull 47 37 59
19. Cook ER (1990) Conceptual linear aggregate model for tree rings. In: Cook E, Kairiukstis LA (eds) Methods of dendrochronology: applications in the environmental science. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 98-104
20. Cook ER, Briffa KR (1990) A comparison of some tree-ring standardization methods. In: Cook E, Kairiukstis LA (eds) Methods of dendrochronology: applications in the environmental science. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 153-162
21. ER Cook K Peters 1997 Calculating unbiased tree-ring indices for the study of climatic and environmental change Holocene 7 359 368
22. ER Cook KR Briffa DM Meko DA Graybill G Funkhouser 1995 The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology development for palaeoclimatic studies Holocene 5 229 237
23. TJ Crowley TS Lowery 2000 How warm was the Medieval Warm Period? Ambio 29 51 54
24. Fritts HC (1976) Tree rings and climate. Academic Press, London
25. HC Fritts JE Mosimann CP Bottorff 1969 A revised computer program for standardizing tree-ring series Tree Ring Bull 29 15 20
26. Grove JM (1988) The Little Ice Age. Methuen, London
27. S Helama M Lindholm 2003 Droughts and rainfall in south-eastern Finland since AD 874, inferred from Scots pine ring-widths Boreal Environ Res 8 171 183
28. S Helama M Lindholm M Timonen M Eronen 2004 Detection of climate signal in dendrochronological data analysis: a comparison of tree-ring standardization methods Theor Appl Climatol 79 239 254
29. S Helama M Lindholm J Meriläinen M Timonen M Eronen 2005 Multicentennial ring-width chronologies of Scots pine along north-south gradient across Finland Tree Ring Res 61 21 32
30. Holmes RL, Adams RK, Fritts HC (1986) Tree-ring chronologies of western North America: California, Eastern Oregon and northern Great Basin with procedures used in the chronology development work including users manuals for computer programs COFECHA and ARSTAN (Chronology Series IV) University of Arizona, Tucson, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
31. PD Jones KR Briffa TP Barnett SFB Tett 1998 High-resolution palaeoclimatic records for the last millennium: interpretation, integration and comparison with General Circulation Model control-run temperatures Holocene 8 455 471
32. A Kilpeläinen H Peltola A Ryyppö K Sauvala K Laitinen S Kellomäki 2003 Wood properties of Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris) grown at elevated temperature and carbon dioxide concentration Tree Physiol 23 889 897
33. A Kilpeläinen H Peltola A Ryyppö S Kellomäki 2005 Scots pine responses to elevated temperature and carbon dioxide concentration: growth and wood properties Tree Physiol 25 75 83
34. HH Lamb 1965 The early medieval warm epoch and its sequel Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 1 13 37
35. M Lindholm M Timonen J Meriläinen P Vanninen M Eronen 1997 Effects of climate on the growth of Scots pine in the Saimaa lake district, south-eastern Finland, in the southern part of the boreal forest belt Dendrochronologia 15 151 168
36. M Lindholm J Meriläinen M Eronen 1998-1999 A 1250-year ring-width chronology of Scots pine for south-eastern Finland, in the southern part of the boreal forest belt Dendrochronologia 16-17 183 190
37. M Lindholm H Lehtonen T Kolström J Meriläinen M Eronen M Timonen 2000 Climatic signals extracted from ring-width chronologies of Scots pine from the Northern, Middle and Southern parts of the boreal forest belt in Finland Silva Fenn 34 317 329
38. M Lindholm Ó Eggertsson N Lovelius O Raspopov O Shumilov A Läänelaid 2001 Growth indices of North European Scots pine record the seasonal North Atlantic Oscillation Boreal Environ Res 6 275 284
39. Meriläinen J, Timonen M (2004) TREE-RING DATA BANK of SAIMA Centre for Environmental Sciences in Savonlinna. http://sokl.joensuu.fi/saima/ homepage3/dataa1.htm
40. J Miina 2000 Dependence of tree-ring, earlywood and latewood indices of Scots pine and Norway spruce on climatic factors in eastern Finland Ecol Model 132 259 273
41. TJ Osborn KR Briffa 2006 The spatial extent of 20th century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years Science 311 841 844
42. H Polge 1970 The use of X-ray densitometric methods in dendrochronology Tree Ring Bull 30 1 10
43. Y Savva F Schweingruber L Milyutin E Vaganov 2002 Genetic and environmental signals in tree rings from different provenances of Pinus sylvestris L. planted in the southern taiga, central Siberia Trees 16 313 324
44. Schweingruber FH (1990) Radiodensitometry. In: Cook E, Kairiukstis LA (eds) Methods of dendrochronology: applications in the environmental science. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 55-63
45. FH Schweingruber T Bartholin E Schär KR Briffa 1988 Radiodensitometric-dendroclimatological conifer chronologies from Lapland (Scandinavia) and the Alps (Switzerland) Boreas 17 559 566
46. FH Schweingruber KR Briffa P Nogler 1993 A tree-ring densitometric transect from Alaska to Labrador. Comparison of ring-width and maximum-latewood-density chronologies in the conifer belt of northern North America Int J Biometeorol 37 151 169
47. PR Sheppard RL Holmes LJ Graumlich 1997 The "Many Fragments Curse:" A special case of the segment length curse Tree Ring Bull 54 1 9
48. Timonen M (2002) Lustotiedon tutkumusjärjestelmä KINSYS [KINSYS - a Finnish tree-ring research system, in Finnish]. Metsäntutkimuslaitos, Rovaniemen tutkimusasema, Dendrokronologian laboratorio; Tiedonanto 2/2000
49. M Tuovinen 2005 Response of tree-ring width and density of Pinus sylvestris to climate beyond the continuous northern forest line in Finland Dendrochronologia 22 83 91
50. K Yasue R Funada K Fukazawa J Ohhani 1996 The effect of climate on the variation in maximum density of Picea glehnii Mast. and associated changes in tracheid dimensions Dendrochronologia 14 89 97
51. K Yasue R Funada K Fukazawa J Ohtani 1997 Tree-ring width and maximum density of Picea glehnii as indicators of climatic changes in northern Hokkaido, Japan Can J For Res 27 1962 1970
52. L Wang S Payette Y Bégin 2001 1300-year tree-ring width and density series based on living, dead and subfossil black spruce at tree-line in Subarctic Québec, Canada Holocene 11 333 341
53. L Wang S Payette Y Bégin 2002 Relationships between anatomical and densitometric characteristics of black spruce and summer temperature at tree line in northern Quebec Can J For Res 32 477 486
54. WG Warren 1980 On removing the growth trend from dendrochronological data Tree Ring Bull 40 35 44
55. TJ Wodzicki 1971 Mechanism of xylem differentiation in Pinus sylvestris L J Exp Bot 22 678 687