Influence of environmental factors on the wood structure of living and fossil trees

Creber, G. T.; Chaloner, W. G.

doi:10.1007/bf02862630

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“…In the physiological analysis, the annual radial growth of tree-ring tracheid, including tracheid development and photosynthetic accumulation, took place during the growing season. During the early part of the growing season, cambium differentiation and cell enlargement processes occurred rapidly, resulting in increments of tree-ring width [14,25,26]. Larches develop new needles in May, while the xylem cambium begins to differentiate new tracheid in the stem [18], making the temperature in May very important to Larch ring-width formation.…”

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Growth characteristics and response to climate change of Larix Miller tree-ring in China

Sun

Wang

Chen

et al. 2010

Sci. China Earth Sci.

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As one of the earliest species used in dendrochronological studies, Larix responds sensitively to climate change. In this study, nine larch species and one variety from eleven sites were collected to study the growth characteristics of tree-ring width using dendrochronological methods. Ten residual tree-ring chronologies were developed to analyze their relationships with regional standardized anomaly series by Pearson's correlation analysis. The results suggest that most of the chronologies had significantly positive correlations with the mean temperature and mean maximum temperature in May. The spring temperature evidently limited the radial growth of the larch species without precipitation control. The largest mean tree-ring width was found in Himalayan Larch in Jilong, whereas Master Larch in Si'er reflected the smallest mean value. Both species presented little climate information in this study. Chinese, Potanin, and Tibetan larches are significantly correlated with climate change, implying a huge potential for climate history reconstruction. The elevation of the sampling sites appears to be an important condition for tree-ring growth of larches responding to climate factors.

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Growth characteristics and response to climate change of Larix Miller tree-ring in China

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Wang

Chen

et al. 2010

Sci. China Earth Sci.

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“…Although growth rings in essence appear to be a rich archive of palaeoclimatic information, careful evaluation of the material for study is paramount to ensure that the climate signal is not being confused with expressions of variation which in turn would affect wood growth and growth ring characters (see Creber and Chaloner 1984;Briffa et al 1998;Tardif et al 2003). Problems arise from restricted biotic (including genetic) and abiotic effects often surpassing the climate effect.…”

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“…or as a measure of the favourability of growing conditions towards the end of the growing season (Creber and Chaloner 1984;Francis 1986;Ash and Creber 1992;Yao et al 1994;Keller and Hendrix 1997;Francis and Poole 2002). A high proportion of woods in a fossil assemblage with indistinct growth rings infers a climate that is not highly seasonal (Wheeler and Manchester 2002) and vice versa.…”

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Physiognomic and chemical characters in wood as palaeoclimate proxies

Poole

Bergen

2006

Plants and Climate Change

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Fossil wood is both abundant and ubiquitous through geological time and space. During growth the parent plant was directly influenced by the biotic and abiotic (including climatic-) factors in the surrounding environment. The climate affects wood production in a number of ways and it is the resulting physiognomic and chemical characters that can help retrodict palaeoclimate. Physiognomic characters include those morphological and anatomical characters that in turn have enabled the use of wood characters, tree ring characters and statistical parameters (Mean Sensitivity) to determine seasonality, length and favourability of growing season, growth rates and forest productivity. Potential chemical characters discussed include (i) the preservation of wood-derived compounds (e.g. guaiacyl, syringyl p-hydroxyphenyl and resins); (ii) degree of lignin degradation to determine climate induced environmental changes; and (iii) stable isotopes (dD, d 13 C and d 18 O) to help determine aspects of past climates as derived from environmental changes. The feasibility and methodology of these characters, in both angiosperm and conifer wood, are reviewed in order to establish certain safe guards, or prerequisites, such that interpretations of palaeoclimate can be as unbiased, and thus as reliable, as possible.

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“…The short 3 month growing season reflects estimates of duration of growing in Antarctica of 48 days in the Early Permian (Francis et al, 1994) and 58 days later in the Permian (Taylor and Ryberg, 2007); their estimates are based on the number of cells in the fossil growth rings divided by rate of cell production (up to 4 cells per day) in modern spruces (Creber and Chaloner, 1984). …”

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Highly productive polar forests from the Permian of Antarctica

Miller

Knepprath

Cantrill

et al. 2016

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Two stratigraphically closely spaced bedding planes exposed at Lamping Peak in the Upper Buckley Formation, Beardmore Glacier area, Antarctica contain abundant in situ stumps (n=53, n=21) and other plant fossils that allow reconstruction of forest structure and biomass of Glossopteris forests that thrived at Presence of these highly productive fossil forests at high paleolatitude is consistent with hothouse conditions during the Late Permian, prior to the eruption of the Siberian flood basalts.

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Influence of environmental factors on the wood structure of living and fossil trees

Cited by 270 publications

References 152 publications

Growth characteristics and response to climate change of Larix Miller tree-ring in China

Growth characteristics and response to climate change of Larix Miller tree-ring in China

Physiognomic and chemical characters in wood as palaeoclimate proxies

Highly productive polar forests from the Permian of Antarctica

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