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TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY
Volume 60, Issue 5, Pages 771-781Publisher
CO-ACTION PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00370.x
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- EU project ForMAT [ENV4-CT97 = 0641]
- EU project ISONET [EV K2 = 2001-00237]
- EU FP6 project Millennium [GOCE 017008]
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This paper examines tree-ring width and delta C-13 chronologies from a network of five Iberian pine forests to determine their sensitivity to climate variability under different site conditions. Interseries comparisons revealed better and more homogenous agreement among delta C-13 records than among tree-ring width series of the different sites. This suggests that delta C-13 ratios may preferentially record large-scale climatic signals, whereas ring-width variations may reflect more local factors. A negative relationship was found between ring-width and delta C-13. As inferred from response function analyses, ring-width and delta C-13 showed significant relationships with climate. The analyses of different sites and species revealed unshared tree-ring width responses to summer temperature and precipitation, whereas all delta C-13 series were highly sensitive to current year summer precipitation and, to a lesser extent, to current summer temperature. A strong summer precipitation signal seems to dominate the delta C-13 of trees growing under Mediterranean climate, even when the mean climatic site conditions do not indicate distinct summer drought. Therefore, delta C-13 values reflect precipitation variability during the summer season better than tree-ring widths. This demonstrates that delta C-13 from tree-rings can be a very useful tool for climatic reconstruction in the Mediterranean region, especially when climate-growth relationships are weak.
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