Age trends in tree ring growth and isotopic archives: A case study of Pinus sylvestris L. from northwestern Norway

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Young, Giles H F ^a   Demmler, Joanne C ^a   Gunnarson, Bjrn E ^b,c   Kirchhefer, Andreas J ^d   Loader, Neil J ^a   McCarroll, Danny ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; CAMBIAL AGE; CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; CLIMATE INFORMATION; CLIMATE SIGNALS; CLIMATIC CHANGES; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; POTENTIAL LOSS; RELATIVE DENSITY; RING WIDTH; SEGMENT LENGTHS; STABLE CARBON; STABLE ISOTOPES; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING WIDTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; PLANT EXTRACTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AGE DETERMINATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING;

NORWAY;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 79958806483     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003913     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Briffa, K. R., and P. D. Jones (1990), Basic chronology statistics and assessment, in Methods of Dendrochronology: Applications in the Environmental Sciences, edited by E. R. Cook and L. A. Kairiukstis, pp. 137-152, Kluwer Acad., Dordrecht, Netherlands.
2. Briffa, K. R., T. S. Bartholin, D. Eckstein, P. D. Jones, W. Karlén, F. H. Schweingruber, and P. Zetterberg (1990), A 1,400-year tree-ring record of summer temperatures in Fennoscandia, Nature, 346, 434-439, doi:10.1038/346434a0. (Pubitemid 120005915)
3. Briffa, K. R., P. D. Jones, T. S. Bartholin, D. Eckstein, F. H. Schweingruber, W. Karlén, P. Zetterberg, and M. Eronen (1992), Fennoscandian summers from AD 500: Temperature changes on short and long timescales, Clim. Dyn., 7, 111-119,doi:10.1007/BF00211153.
4. Campbell, R., D. McCarroll, N. J. Loader, H. Grudd, I. Robertson, and R. Jalkanen (2007), Blue intensity in Pinus sylvestris tree-rings: Developing a new palaeoclimate proxy, Holocene, 17, 821-828, doi:10.1177/0959683607080523. (Pubitemid 350033223)
5. Cook, E. R., K. R. Briffa, D. M. Meko, A. Graybill, and G. Funkhouser (1995), The 'segment length curse' in long tree-ring chronology develop-ment for palaeoclimatic studies, Holocene, 5, 229-237, doi:10.1177/095968369500500211.
6. Eronen, M., P. Zetterberg, K. R. Briffa, M. Lindholm, J. Meriläinen, and M. Timonen (2002), The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland: Part 1, chronology construction and initial infer-ences,Holocene, 12, 673-680, doi:10.1191/0959683602hl580rp. (Pubitemid 35391536)
7. Esper, J., E. R. Cook, P. J. Krusic, K. Peters, and F. H. Schweingruber (2003), Tests of the RCS method for preserving low-frequency variabil-ity in long tree-ring chronologies, Tree-RingRes., 59, 81-98.
8. Esper, J., D. C. Frank, G. Battipalagia, U. Büntgen, C. Holert, K. S. Treydte, R. T. W. Siegwolf, and M. Saurer (2010), Low-frequency noise in δ C and δ O tree ring data: A case study ofPinus uncinata in the Spanish Pyrenees, GlobalBiogeochem. Cycles, 24, GB4018, doi:10.1029/ 2010GB003772.
9. Fritts, H. C. (1976), Tree Rings and Climate, 567 pp., Academic, London.
10. Gagen, M. H., D. McCarroll, N. J. Loader, I. Robertson, R. Jalkanen, and K. J. Anchukaitis (2007), Exorcising the 'segment length curse': Summer temperature reconstruction since AD 1640 using non-detrended stable carbon isotope ratios from pine trees in northern Finland, Holocene, 17, 435-446, doi:10.1177/0959683607077012. (Pubitemid 47065992)
11. Gagen, M. H., D. McCarroll, I. Robertson, N. J. Loader, and R. Jalkanen (2008), Do tree ring δ C series from Pinus sylvestris in northern Fennos-candia contain long-term non-climate trends?, Chem. Geol., 252, 42-51, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.01.013.
12. Gagen, M. H., D. McCarroll, N. J. Loader, and I. Robertson (2011), Stable isotopes in dendroclimatology: Moving beyond 'potentia? in Develop-ments in Palaeoenvironmental Research, vol. 11, Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects, edited by M. K. Hughes et al., pp. 147-172, Springer, New York, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5725-0.
13. Gouirand, I., H. W. Linderholm, A. Moberg, and B. Wohlfarth (2008), On the spatiotemporal characteristics of Fennoscandian tree-ring based summer temperature reconstructions, Theor. Appl. Climatol., 91, 1-25, doi:10.1007/s00704-007-0311-7.
14. Grudd, H. (2008), Torneträsk tree-ring width and density AD 500-2004: A test of climate sensitivity and a new 1500-year reconstruction of north Fennoscandian summers, Clim. Dyn., 31, 843-857, doi:10.1007/s00382-007- 0358-2.
15. Grudd, H., K. R. Briffa, W. Karlén, T. S. Bartholin, P. D. Jones, and B. Kromer (2002), A 7400-year tree-ring chronology in northern Swedish Lapland: Natural climatic variability expressed on annual to millennial timescales, Holocene, 12, 657-666, doi:10.1191/0959683602hl578rp. (Pubitemid 35391534)
16. Helama, S., M. Lindholm, M. Timonen, J. Meriläinen, and M. Eronen (2002), The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland: Part 2, interannual to centennial variability in summer temperatures for 7500 years, Holocene, 12, 681-688, doi:10.1191/0959683602hl581rp. (Pubitemid 35391537)
17. Hilasvuori, E., F. Berninger, E. Sonninen, H. Tuomenvirta, and H. Jungner (2009), Stability of climate signal in carbon and oxygen isotope records and ring width from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in Finland, J. Quat Sci., 24, 469-480, doi:10.1002/jqs.1260.
18. Hughes, M. K. (2002), Dendrochronology in climatology: The state of the art, Dendrochronologia, 20, 95-116, doi:10.1078/1125-7865-00011. (Pubitemid 41152352)
19. Kaufman, D. S., D. P. Schneider, N. P. McKay, C. M. Ammann, R. S. Bradley, K. R. Briffa, G. F. Miller, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, J. T. Overpeck, and B. M. Vinther (2009), Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling, Science, 325, 1236-1239, doi:10.1126/science.1173983.
20. Kirchhefer, A. J. (2001), Reconstruction of summer temperatures from tree-rings of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in coastal northern Norway, Holocene, 11, 41-52, doi:10.1191/095968301670181592. (Pubitemid 32093366)
21. Kirchhefer, A. J. (2005), A discontinuous tree-ring record AD 320-1994 from Dividalen, Norway: Inferences on climate and treeline history, in Mountain Ecosystems: Studies in Treeline Ecology, edited by G. Broll and B. Keplin, pp. 219-236, Springer, Berlin.
22. Kress, A., G. H. F. Young, M. Saurer, N. J. Loader, R. T. W. Siegwolf, and D. McCarroll (2009), Stable isotope coherence in the earlywood and latewood oftree line conifers, Chem. Geol., 268, 52-57, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2009.07. 008.
23. Linderholm, H. W., J. A. Bjorklund, K. Seftigen, B. E. Gunnarson, H. Grudd, J. H. Jeong, I. Drobyshev, and Y. Liu (2010), Dendroclimatol-ogy in Fennoscandia: From past accomplishments to future potential, Clim. Past, 6, 93-114, doi:10.5194/cp-6-93-2010.
24. Lindholm, M., M. Ogurtsov, T. Aalto, R. Jalkanen, and H. Salminen (2009), A summer temperature proxy from height increment of Scots pine since 1561 at the northern timberline in Fennoscandia, Holocene, 19, 1131-1138, doi:10.1177/0959683609345078.
25. Loader, N. J., I. Robertson, A. C. Barker, V. R. Switsur, and J. S. Waterhouse (1997), An improved technique for the batch processing of small wholewood samples to α-cellulose, Chem. Geol., 136, 313-317, doi:10.1016/S0009-2541(96)00133-7.
26. Loader, N. J., D. McCarroll, M. H. Gagen, I. Robertson, and R. Jalkanen (2007), Extracting climatic information from stable isotopes in tree rings, in Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change, edited by R. Siegwolf and T. Dawson, pp. 23-44, Academic, San Diego, Calif
27. Loader, N. J., P. M. Santillo, J. P. Woodman-Ralph, J. E. Rolfe, M. A. Hall, M. Gagen, I. Robertson, R. Wilson, C. A. Froyd, and D. McCarroll (2008), Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in southwestern Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions, Chem. Geol., 252, 62-71, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.01.006.
28. Loader, N. J., G. Helle, S. Los, F. Lehmkuhl, and G. H. Schleser (2010), Twentieth-century summer temperature variability in the southern Altai Mountains: A carbon and oxygen isotope study of tree rings, Holocene, doi:10.1177/0959683610369507.
29. McCarroll, D., and N. J. Loader (2004), Stable isotopes in tree rings, Quat Sci. Rev., 23, 771-801, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.06.017. (Pubitemid 38355769)
30. McCarroll, D., and F. Pawellek (1998), Stable carbon isotope ratios of latewood cellulose in Pinus sylvestris from northern Finland: Variabil-ity and signal-strength, Holocene, 8, 675-684, doi:10.1191/095968398675987498. (Pubitemid 28542021)
31. McCarroll, D., and F. Pawellek (2001), Stable carbon isotopes ratios of Pinus sylvestris from northern Finland and the potential for extracting a climate signal from long Fennoscandian chronologies, Holocene, 11, 517-526, doi:10.1191/095968301680223477. (Pubitemid 32770149)
32. McCarroll, D., E. Pettigrew, A. Luckman, F. Guibal, and J. L. Edouard (2002), Blue reflectance provides a surrogate for latewood density of high-latitude pine tree rings, Arct. Antarct. Alp. Res., 34, 450-453, doi:10.2307/1552203. (Pubitemid 36058785)
33. McCarroll, D., R. Jalkanen, S. Hicks, M. Tuovinen, M. Gagen, F. Pawellek, D. Eckstein, U. Schmitt, J. Autio, and O. Heikkinen (2003), Multiproxy dendroclimatology: A pilot study in northern Finland, Holocene, 13, 829-838, doi:10.1191/0959683603hl668rp. (Pubitemid 37292503)
34. McCarroll, D., M. H. Gagen, N. J. Loader, I. Robertson, K. J. Anchukaitis, S. Los, G. H. F. Young, R. Jalkanen, A. J. Kirchhefer, and J. S. Waterhouse (2009), Correction oftree ring stable carbon isotope chronol-ogies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, Geo-chim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 1539-1547, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.11.041.
35. McCarroll, D., M. H. Gagen, N. J. Loader, I. Robertson, K. J. Anchukaitis, S. Los, G. H. F. Young, R. Jalkanen, A. J. Kirchhefer, and J. S. Waterhouse (2010), Erratum to "Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere", Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 1539-1547, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 3040, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.12.031.
36. McCarroll, D., M. Tuovinen, R. Campbell, M. Gagen, H. Grudd, R. Jalkanen, N. J. Loader, and I. Robertson (2011), A critical evaluation ofmulti-proxy dendroclimatology in northern Finland, J. Quat Sci., 26, 7-14, doi:10.1002/jqs.1408.
37. 2) on the stable isotope ratios (delta C-13 and delta O-18) of tree rings, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 74, 2327-2339, doi:10.1016/j. gca.2010.01.021.
38. Saurer, M., R. Siegwolf, and F. H. Schweingruber (2004), Carbon isotope discrimination indicates improving water-use efficiency of trees in north-ern Eurasia over the last 100 years, Global Change Biol., 10, 2109-2120, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00869.x. (Pubitemid 40015010)
39. Sidorova, O. V., R. T. W. Siegwolf, M. Saurer, M. M. Naurzbaev, A. V. Shashkin, and E. A. Vaganov (2010), Spatial patterns ofclimate changes in the Eurasian north reflected in Siberian larch tree-ring parameters and stable isotopes, Global Change Biol., 16, 1003-1018, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009. 02008.x.
40. Sonninen, E., and H. Jungner (1995), Stable carbon isotopes in the tree rings of a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) from northern Finland, Paläoklimaforschung, 15, 121-128.
41. Treydte, K. S., G. H. Schleser, G. Helle, D. C. Frank, M. Winiger, G. H. Haug, and J. Esper (2006), The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium, Nature, 440, 1179-1182, doi:10.1038/nature04743.
42. 2 on a millennium-long tree-ring carbon isotope record, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 73, 4635-4647, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.05.057.
43. Tuovinen, M., D. McCarroll, H. Grudd, R. Jalkanen, and S. Los (2009), Spatial and temporal stability of the climate signal in northern Fennos-candian pine tree-ring width and maximum density, Boreas, 38, 1-12, doi:10.1111/j.1502- 3885.2008.00046.x.
44. Warren, W. G. (1980), On removing the growth trend from dendrochrono-logical data, Tree-Ring Bull., 40, 35-44.
45. Waterhouse, J. S., V. R. Switsur, A. C. Barker, A. H. C. Carter, D. L. Hemming, N. J. Loader, and I. Robertson (2004), Northern European trees show a progressively diminishing response to increasing atmo-spheric carbon dioxide concentrations, Quat. Sci. Rev., 23, 803-810, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.06. 011. (Pubitemid 38355770)
46. Young, G. H. F., D. McCarroll, N. J. Loader, and A. J. Kirchhefer (2010), A 500-year record of summer near-ground solar radiation from tree-ring stable carbon isotopes, Holocene, 20, 315-324, doi:10.1177/0959683609351902.