Tree ring width chronologies of four Pinaceae species in boreal forests in Yakutia in 2018

• Main Authors: Kruse, Stefan, Frommel, Ingeborg, Nitsche, Clara, Balanzategui, Daniel, Heinrich, Ingo, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Brieger, Frederic, Schulte, Luise, Stuenzi, Simone M, Pestryakova, Luidmila A, Zakharov, Evgenii S
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: TRW; Dendrochronology; Siberia; Boreal Forest; Yakutsk; Zakharov; Alfred Wegener Institute; Chukotka; permafrost; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6145465; https://zenodo.org/record/6145465

Tree cores and discs were collected during fieldwork in Yakutia in 2018 by scientists from Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and University of Potsdam, Germany, The Institute for Biological problems of the Cryolithozone, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian branch, and The Institute of Natural Sciences, North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk, Yakutsk, Russia (Kruse et al., 2019). The samples were dried, sanded, digitized and further processed by identifying the ring layers end exporting the tree ring width for each year. The site chronologies were established by cross-dating all samples to each other, which helped coping with small ring sizes but especially with missing rings, and frost rings. We processed samples of four species, Larix gmelinii (LAGM), Picea obovata (PIOB), Pinus sylvestris (PISY) and Pinus sibirica (PISI). These were recorded at a variety of locations: LAGM from Lake Khamra sites EN18079, -80, -81, -83 (N59.974919° E112.958985°, N59.977106° E112.961379°, N59.970583° E112.987096°, N59.974714° E113.002874°) PIOB from Lake Khamra sites EN18079, -81, -83 (59.974919° E112.958985°, 59.970583° E112.987096°, 59.974714° E113.002874°) PISI from Lake Khamra site EN18080 (N59.977106° E112.961379°) PISY from different sites between EN18061 (N62.076376° E129.618586°) and EN18077 (N61.892568° E114.288623°) Data format The data consists of one file in dendrochronological TUCSON format without header for each of the four tree species. Additional information This data is linked to further information about individual trees and their sites as published in: van Geffen, Femke; Schulte, Luise; Geng, Rongwei; Heim, Birgit; Pestryakova, Luidmila A; Herzschuh, Ulrike; Kruse, Stefan (2021): Tree height and crown diameter during fieldwork expeditions that took place in 2018 in Central Yakutia and Chukotka, Siberia. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.932817 and an extension to: Shevtsova, Iuliia; Kruse, Stefan; Herzschuh, Ulrike; Brieger, Frederic; Schulte, Luise; Stuenzi, Simone Maria; Pestryakova, Luidmila A; Zakharov, Evgenii S (2020): Individual tree and tall shrub partial above-ground biomass of central Chukotka in 2018. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.923784 Information about the expedition in 2018 in: Kruse, Stefan; Bolshiyanov, Dimitry Yu; Grigoriev, Mikhail N; Morgenstern, Anne; Pestryakova, Ludmila A; Tsibizov, Leonid; Udke, Annegret (2019): Russian-German Cooperation: Expeditions to Siberia in 2018. Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung = Reports on Polar and Marine Research, 734, 257 pp, https://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0734_2019 : All data were collected during the expedition Chukotka and Yakutia 2018 expedition, that has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which enabled the Russian-German research programme 'Kohlenstoff im Permafrost KoPf' (grant no. 03F0764A) and by the Initiative and Networking Fund of the Helmholtz Association and by the ERC consolidator grant Glacial Legacy of Ulrike Herzschuh (grant no. 772852).