Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East
Kamchatka’s forests span across the peninsula’s diverse topography and provide a wide range of physiographic and elevational settings that can be used to investigate how forests are responding to climate change and to anticipate future response. Birch (Betula ermanii Cham.) and larch (Larix gmelinii...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:c7d2d2f9f3f54342b0f699f9bb9314f1 2023-05-15T16:58:47+02:00 Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East Clara Deck Gregory Wiles Sarah Frederick Vladimir Matsovsky Tatiana Kuderina Rosanna D’Arrigo Olga Solomina Nicholas Wiesenberg 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.3390/f8090315 https://doaj.org/article/c7d2d2f9f3f54342b0f699f9bb9314f1 EN eng MDPI AG https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/8/9/315 https://doaj.org/toc/1999-4907 1999-4907 doi:10.3390/f8090315 https://doaj.org/article/c7d2d2f9f3f54342b0f699f9bb9314f1 Forests, Vol 8, Iss 9, p 315 (2017) dendrochronology dendroclimatology Kamchatka tree rings Betula ermanii Larix gmelinii Plant ecology QK900-989 article 2017 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.3390/f8090315 2022-12-30T22:15:06Z Kamchatka’s forests span across the peninsula’s diverse topography and provide a wide range of physiographic and elevational settings that can be used to investigate how forests are responding to climate change and to anticipate future response. Birch (Betula ermanii Cham.) and larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen) were sampled at eight new sites and together with previous collections were compared with monthly temperature and precipitation records to identify their climate response. Comparisons show that tree-ring widths in both species are primarily influenced by May through August temperatures of the current growth year, and that there is a general increase in temperature sensitivity with altitude. The ring-width data for each species were also combined into regional chronologies. The resulting composite larch chronology shows a strong resemblance to a Northern Hemisphere (NH) tree-ring based temperature reconstruction with the larch series tracking NH temperatures closely through the past 300 years. The composite birch ring-width series more closely reflects the Pacific regional coastal late summer temperatures. These new data improve our understanding of the response of forests to climate and show the low frequency warming noted in other, more continental records from high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Also evident in the ring-width record is that the larch and birch forests continue to track the strong warming of interior Kamchatka. Article in Journal/Newspaper Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Pacific Kamchatka Peninsula ENVELOPE(160.000,160.000,56.000,56.000) Forests 8 9 315 |
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Kamchatka’s forests span across the peninsula’s diverse topography and provide a wide range of physiographic and elevational settings that can be used to investigate how forests are responding to climate change and to anticipate future response. Birch (Betula ermanii Cham.) and larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Kuzen) were sampled at eight new sites and together with previous collections were compared with monthly temperature and precipitation records to identify their climate response. Comparisons show that tree-ring widths in both species are primarily influenced by May through August temperatures of the current growth year, and that there is a general increase in temperature sensitivity with altitude. The ring-width data for each species were also combined into regional chronologies. The resulting composite larch chronology shows a strong resemblance to a Northern Hemisphere (NH) tree-ring based temperature reconstruction with the larch series tracking NH temperatures closely through the past 300 years. The composite birch ring-width series more closely reflects the Pacific regional coastal late summer temperatures. These new data improve our understanding of the response of forests to climate and show the low frequency warming noted in other, more continental records from high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Also evident in the ring-width record is that the larch and birch forests continue to track the strong warming of interior Kamchatka. |
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Clara Deck Gregory Wiles Sarah Frederick Vladimir Matsovsky Tatiana Kuderina Rosanna D’Arrigo Olga Solomina Nicholas Wiesenberg |
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Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East |
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Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East |
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Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East |
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Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East |
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Climate Response of Larch and Birch Forests across an Elevational Transect and Hemisphere-Wide Comparisons, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russian Far East |
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climate response of larch and birch forests across an elevational transect and hemisphere-wide comparisons, kamchatka peninsula, russian far east |
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