Dynamics of Atlantic White-Cedar Populations at a Northern New England Coastal Wetland

Reconstructing Northeastern United States temperatures using Atlantic white cedar tree rings

“…Green hatching indicates the species distribution as defined by the US Forest Service (Little 1978). successful drought reconstructions using tree-rings from the eastern United States exist (Cook et al 1999), the mixed climate sensitivity of eastern US species limits opportunities for skillful broad-scale paleotemperature reconstructions over the region (Mann et al 2009, Trouet et al 2013, Anchukaitis et al 2017 and there remain substantial uncertainties about the range of natural temperature variability due to the paucity of temperature-sensitive proxy records in the region. AWC is a shade semi-intolerant tree found in wetlands along the United States' east coast rarely further than 200 km from the ocean (Laderman 1989, Gengarelly andLee 2006). In the Northeast, AWC is restricted to areas too wet for other species, often with standing water for over half the growing season (Laderman 1989, Motzkin 1990, NHESP 2007.…”