Tree-ring data set for dendroclimatic reconstructions and dendrochronological dating in European Russia

Abstract

The data set presented represents 15 years of collection. It contains tree-ring width measurements from 64 sites of living trees and ten historical chronologies based on archaeological and construction wood up to year 572 CE, altogether 2909 tree-ring series and more than 450000 measured and cross-dated tree rings. It covers the vast territory of European Russia, including its forested northern and central parts, and the Northern Caucasus mountains. The potential use of these data include climatic reconstructions of regional and hemispheric scale, dendrochronological dating of historical and cultural wood, ecological and remote sensing studies.

The Budapest Tree-Ring Laboratory – Status report after 20 years of activity

“…A recently published regional tree-ring archive collecting data from the European part of Russia (hereafter ER) over 15 years of activity (Solomina et al, 2022) also offers an opportunity for comparison. The sample archive of the BTRL counts roughly half as many sites and dendrochronological samples as the ER (sites: 74, samples: 1680).…”

Ecological and methodological drivers of non‐stationarity in tree growth response to climate

“…We suggest that the mean non‐stationarity of both species might have been shifted due to inconsistencies in sampling strategies used at different sites from the ITRDB. We speculate that most of the P. sylvestris ITRDB chronologies might have been sampled for dendroclimatic purposes, that is, at sites and microsites with presumably strong and uniform climatic signals (Hartl et al, 2021; Solomina et al, 2022). By contrast, the sampling strategy was instead focused on dendroecological research questions in the prevailingly old‐growth P. abies forest stands with strong intra‐specific competition and large proportions of suppressed trees (Schurman et al, 2019).…”

The International Tree-Ring Data Bank at Fifty: Status of Stewardship for Future Scientific Discovery

“…As the dendrochronology community continues to grow into “frontier” regions ( e.g. Solomina et al . 2022; Zuidema et al .…”

“…As the dendrochronology community continues to grow into "frontier" regions (e.g. Solomina et al 2022;Zuidema et al 2022) and develops new data collection and analysis techniques (Pearl et al 2020;Griffin et al 2021), the future of the science is promising, highlighting the continued need to expand and maintain the ITRDB as a central repository for tree-ring chronologies (Babst et al 2017).…”