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DOI 10.1080/10256010802522218
Title (Primary) A new serial pooling method of shifted tree ring blocks to construct millennia long tree ring isotope chronologies with annual resolution
Author Boettger, T.; Friedrich, M.
Source Titel Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies
Year 2009
Department ISOHYD
Volume 45
Issue 1
Page From 68
Page To 80
Language englisch
Keywords carbon-13; dendrochronology; oxygen-18; palaeoclimate; pooling; sampling strategy
Abstract The study presents a new serial pooling method of shifted tree ring blocks for the building of isotope chronologies. This method combines the advantages of traditional 'serial' and 'intertree' pooling, and can be recommended for the construction of sub-regional long isotope chronologies with sufficient replication, and on annual resolution, especially for the case of extremely narrow tree rings. For Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris L., Khibiny Low Mountains, NW Russia) and Silver firs (Abies alba Mill., Franconia, Southern Germany), serial pooling of five consecutive tree rings seems appropriate because the species- and site-specific particularities lead to blurs of climate linkages in their tree rings for the period up to ca. five years back. An equivalent to a five-year running means that curve gained on the base annual data sets of single trees can be derived from the analysis of yearly shifted five-year blocks of consecutive tree rings, and therefore, with approximately 20% of the expense. Good coherence of d13C- and d18O-values between calculated means of annual total rings or late wood data and means of five-year blocks of consecutive total tree rings analysed experimentally on most similar material confirms this assumption.
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Boettger, T., Friedrich, M. (2009):
A new serial pooling method of shifted tree ring blocks to construct millennia long tree ring isotope chronologies with annual resolution
Isot. Environ. Health Stud. 45 (1), 68 - 80 10.1080/10256010802522218