Journal
DENDROCHRONOLOGIA
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125873
Keywords
Model calibration; Stationarity; Micro-site; Tree-ring width; Maximum latewood density; Boreal forest
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Funding
- Russian Foundation of Basic Research (RFBR) [20-05-00569_a]
- Russian Scientific Foundation RSCF [21-14-00330]
- Russian research work program [AAAA-A19-119031890086-0]
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) [57378442]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [Wi2680/8 1, DFG-GRT 2010]]
- Russian Science Foundation [21-14-00330] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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This study conducted in Western Siberia with three co-existing conifer species found that although summer temperature is the main driver of tree growth for all species, non-stationarity in climate-growth relationships is common. Micro-site conditions did not systematically affect stationarity, and the bootstrapped transfer function stability test (BTFS) was found to be more sensitive than moving-window analysis in testing stationarity.
Stationary (time-stable) relationships between a tree-ring proxy and climatic drivers are a prerequisite for using tree rings as paleo-climatological archives, but non-stationarity has been detected worldwide. Here we use a classical, temperature-sensitive treeline site in Western Siberia to specifically test the influence of micro-site conditions (wet versus dry) on the stationarity of climate-growth relationships in three co-existing conifer species: Larix sibirica Ledeb., Picea obovata Ledeb., and Pinus sibirica DuTour. We test two commonly used tree-ring proxies, annual tree-ring width (TRW) and maximum latewood density (MXD), using moving windows and the bootstrapped transfer function stability test (BTFS). Summer temperature is the main driver of tree growth in all three species, but non-stationarities exist in all species and both tree-ring proxies. For TRW, we found stationarity only for larch from both micro-sites, while for MXD, we found stationarity for spruce from both micro-sites, and for pine from the wet micro-site. Micro-site variability did not seem to affect stationarity in any systematic way. We highlight the necessity to systematically test the influence of different methods of stationarity tests, since BTFS was more sensitive than moving-window analysis. Taken together, our results underscore the importance of testing the assumption of stationarity for diverse micro-sites, different species and proxies at all sites prior to any tree-ring based temperature reconstruction, since even within one site results can be drastically different.
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