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Tree-ring anatomy of Pinus cembra trees opens new avenues for climate reconstructions in the European Alps

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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 855, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158605

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Stone pine; Quantitative wood anatomy; Palaeo-climate reconstructions; Growing season temperature; Alps

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Tree rings of Pinus cembra have been found to be a reliable proxy for reconstructing past temperature variability. In the European Alps, this species has been previously considered unsuitable for dendroclimatic reconstructions, but this study shows that it has the potential to be a valuable tool for high-resolution palaeoclimatology.
Tree rings form the backbone of high-resolution palaeoclimatology and represent one of the most frequently used proxy to reconstruct climate variability of the Common Era. In the European Alps, reconstructions were often based on tree-ring width (TRW) and maximum latewood density (MXD) series, with a focus on European larch. By contrast, only a very limited number of dendroclimatic studies exists for long-lived, multi-centennial Pinus cembra, despite the widespread occurrence of the species at treeline sites across the European Alps. This lack of reconstructions can be as-cribed to the difficulties encountered in past studies in extracting a robust climate signal from TRW and MXD chronol-ogies. In this study, we tested various wood anatomical parameters from P. cembra as proxies for the reconstruction of past air temperatures. To this end, we measured anatomical cell parameters and TRW of old-growth trees from the God da Tamangur forest stand, known for being the highest pure, and continuous P. cembra forest in Europe. We demon-strate that several wood anatomical parameters allow robust reconstruction of past temperature variability at annual to multidecadal timescales. Best results are obtained with maximum latewood radial cell wall thickness (CWTrad) measured at 40 mu m radial band width. Over the 1920-2017 period, the CWTrad chronology explains 62 % and >80 % of interannual and decadal variability of air temperatures during a time window corresponding roughly with the growing season. These values exceed those found in past work on P. cembra and even exceed the values reported for MXD chronologies built with L. decidua and hitherto considered the gold standard for dendroclimatic reconstruc-tions in the European Alps. The wood anatomical analysis of P. cembra records therefore unveils a dormant potential and opens new avenues for a species that has been considered unsuitable for climate reconstructions so far.

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