Using Dendrochronology to Extract Climate Change Impact over Past Decades

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecophysiology and Biology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (12 June 2023) | Viewed by 1664

Special Issue Editors

Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Relación Agua-Suelo-Planta-Atmósfera, Gómez Palacio, Durango, México
Interests: fires; climate; forest dynamics; climate-fire relationship; dendroecology
Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Rio Negro, Argentina
Interests: forest stand dynamics; disturbance dynamics; dendroecology; climate-plan relationships; silviculture
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Relación Agua-Suelo-Planta-Atmósfera, Gómez Palacio, Durango, México
Interests: dendroclimatology; dendrohydrology; forest dynamics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is a pleasure to inform you that the journal Forests MDPI is planning to publish a Special Issue on “Using Dendrochronology to Extract Climate Change Impact Over Recent Decades”. Dendrochronology is a science that uses tree rings dated to their exact year of formation to reconstruct at centuries or millennial scales the variability of events affecting tree growth. Dendrochronology has a variety of applications and depending on the objective or objectives takes different names—e.g., dendroclimatology, dendroecology, dendrohydrology, or dendrogeomorphology. In the last few decades, millennial-length chronologies have been developed and used to analyze historical climate variability, climatic trends, and the impact of climate warming. This Special Issue aims to determine the recent effects of climate change on the ecosystems at local, regional, or national level using the different disciplines of dendrochronology.

Based on the increased interest in determining the effect of climate warming on different ecosystems worldwide, we extend an invitation to scientists, climate experts, and research professors at universities or from different educational institutions to publish their research findings in this Special Issue. Research studies based in dendroclimatology, dendroecology, dendrohydrology, and dendrogeomorphology are preferably welcome.

Dr. Julián Cerano-Paredes
Dr. Mariano Martín Amoroso
Dr. José Villanueva-Díaz
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • tree rings
  • forest
  • growth
  • climate
  • drought
  • streamflow
  • anatomical analysis
  • biotic and abiotic disturbances

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Long-Term Climate Sensitivity of Resin-Tapped and Non-Resin-Tapped Scots Pine Trees Based on Tree Ring Width and Blue Intensity
by Marcin Jakubowski and Marek Dobroczyński
Forests 2023, 14(3), 593; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14030593 - 16 Mar 2023
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Abstract
The resin tapping of pine trees in Poland ended in the early 1990s. However, we can still find individual trees, and sometimes larger groups of trees, that were tapped. This study focused on the effect of the mechanical wounding of trees during resin [...] Read more.
The resin tapping of pine trees in Poland ended in the early 1990s. However, we can still find individual trees, and sometimes larger groups of trees, that were tapped. This study focused on the effect of the mechanical wounding of trees during resin tapping on the growth and climatic sensitivity of pine trees. The study concerned a 160-year-old pine stand in northwestern Poland in which resin tapping was last performed in the 1970s. All the trees had remained standing because of their high quality, which had destined them for seed collection. The stand included both resin-tapped (RT) and non-RT (NRT) trees. Our study was based on a dendrochronological analysis of two signals—annual tree ring widths (TRWs) and their delta blue intensity (DBI). We observed a significant increase in annual TRW after resin tapping had ceased, alongside a decrease in the DBI. The temporal stability in growth response was examined using daily climatic correlations from 1921 to 2021. It was found that the climatic sensitivity of RT and NRT pines was similar. There were differences in only some of the years, most while resin tapping was occurring, and then approximately 20 years after the resin tapping had ceased. However, these were small differences that mainly related to the strength of the correlation. It was also discovered that we can obtain different types of information from the study of TRWs and DBI. Full article
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