RT Journal Article
T1 No systematic effects of sampling direction on climate-growth relationships in a large-scale, multi-species tree-ring data set
A1 Gut, Urs
A1 Árvai, Mátyás
A1 Bijak, Szymon
A1 Camarero, J. Julio
A1 Cedro, Anna
A1 Cruz-García, Roberto
A1 Garamszegi, Balázs
A1 Hacket-Pain, Andrew
A1 Hevia Cabal, Andrea
A1 Huang, Weiwei
A1 Isaac-Renton, Miriam
A1 Kaczka, Ryszard J.
A1 Kazimirović, Marko
A1 Kędziora, Wojciech
A1 Kern, Zoltán
A1 Klisz, Marcin
A1 Kolář, Tomáš
A1 Körner, Michael
A1 Kuznetsova, Veronica
A1 Montwé, David
A1 Petritan, Any Mary
A1 Petritan, Ion Catalin
A1 Plavcová, Lenka
A1 Rehschuh, Romy
A1 Rocha, Eva
A1 Rybníček, Michal
A1 Sánchez-Salguero, Raúl
A1 Schröder, Jens
A1 Schwab, Niels
A1 Stajić, Branko
A1 Tomusiak, Robert
A1 Wilmking, Martin
A1 Sass-Klaassen, Ute
A1 Buras, Allan
AB Ring-width series are important for diverse fields of research such as the study of past climate, forest ecology, forest genetics, and the determination of origin (dendro-provenancing) or dating of archaeological objects. Recent research suggests diverging climate-growth relationships in tree-rings due to the cardinal direction of extracting the tree cores (i.e. direction-specific effect). This presents an understudied source of bias that potentially affects many data sets in tree-ring research.In this study, we investigated possible direction-specific growth variability based on an international (10 countries), multi-species (8 species) tree-ring width network encompassing 22 sites. To estimate the effect of direction-specific growth variability on climate-growth relationships, we applied a combination of three methods: An analysis of signal strength differences, a Principal Component Gradient Analysis and a test on the direction-specific differences in correlations between indexed ring-widths series and climate variables.We found no evidence for systematic direction-specific effects on tree radial growth variability in high-pass filtered ring-width series. In addition, direction-specific growth showed only marginal effects on climate-growth correlations. These findings therefore indicate that there is no consistent bias caused by coring direction in data sets used for diverse dendrochronological applications on relatively mesic sites within forests in flat terrain, as were studied here. However, in extremely dry, warm or cold environments, or on steep slopes, and for different life-forms such as shrubs, further research is advisable.
SN 1125-7865
SN 1612-0051 (electrónico)
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17802
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17802
LA eng
NO Gut, U., Hevia, A., Buras, A... et al.: "No systematic effects of sampling direction on climate-growth relationships in a large-scale, multi-species tree-ring data set". Dendrochronologia. Vol. 57, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125624
NO Swiss National Science Foundation, grant no. P0ZHP1_162299. A. Buras received funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).  CGL2015-69186-C2-1-R project (Spanish Ministry of Economy).  DAAD-Conacyt scholarship. OLDPINE (AGL2017-83828-C2-2R) project (Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, MINECO).  Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of CR within the National Sustainability Program I (NPUI), grant number LO1415, the Czech Science Foundation (18-17295S). Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-1508, within PNCDI III (BIOCARB). CoMo-ReAdapt (CGL2013-48843-C2-1-R, Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, Spain), LESENS (RTI2018-096884-B-C33, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain).
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RD 31 may 2026