Dendroecological investigations on mountain bog pine (Pinus rotundata Link) in a peat bog in southwestern Germany
Bräuning A, Sobania I (2003)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article
Publication year: 2003
Publisher: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
City/Town: Jülich
Pages Range: 76-81
Conference Proceedings Title: TRACE - Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology, Vol. 1: Proceedings of the DENDROSYMPOSIUM 2002 Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich, Reihe Umwelt, Vol. 33
Event location: Bonn/Jülich
ISBN: 3-89336-323-8
URI: http://treering.de/node/22
Open Access Link: http://treering.de/sites/default/files/TRACE_pdf/Volume_1/Braeuning_Sobania_TraceVol_1.pdf
Abstract
Increment cores of 200 mountain bog pines (Pinus rotundata Link) were collected in five sample plots along a hydrological gradient in a peat bog in Upper Swabia, Southwest Germany. The aim of the study is a dendroecological characterization of mountain bog pine growing on sites showing different qualities to provide a better understanding of environmental signals enclosed in fossil wood of bog pines excavated in archaeological sites. Beside ring width, wood anatomical features like traumatic tissue, intraannual density fluctuations, compression wood and the occurrence of tangential resin ducts were registered. Traumatic tissue more frequently occurs at the moistest site which carries an open stand of bog pine, while other wood anatomical features do not reveal any pronounced differences among the sites. Cumulated growth rates calculated from ring-width measurements are smallest at the moistest site and largest at the driest site, but do not differ markedly at the three intermediate sites. A combination of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), mean sensitivity (MS) and mean correlation (MCor) also reveals a clear separation of the trees growing at the driest and moistest sites, respectively. Future studies will search for a climatological interpretation of wood anatomical anomalies and pointer years derived from ring-width chronologies.
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APA:
Bräuning, A., & Sobania, I. (2003). Dendroecological investigations on mountain bog pine (Pinus rotundata Link) in a peat bog in southwestern Germany. In Schleser G., Winiger M., Bräuning A., Gärtner H., Helle G., Jansma E., Neuwirth B., Treydte K. (Eds.), TRACE - Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology, Vol. 1: Proceedings of the DENDROSYMPOSIUM 2002 Schriften des Forschungszentrums Jülich, Reihe Umwelt, Vol. 33 (pp. 76-81). Bonn/Jülich, DE: Jülich: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH.
MLA:
Bräuning, Achim, and Iris Sobania. "Dendroecological investigations on mountain bog pine (Pinus rotundata Link) in a peat bog in southwestern Germany." Proceedings of the DENDROSYMPOSIUM 2002, Bonn/Jülich Ed. Schleser G., Winiger M., Bräuning A., Gärtner H., Helle G., Jansma E., Neuwirth B., Treydte K., Jülich: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 2003. 76-81.
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