Missing Rings, Synchronous Growth, and Ecological Disturbance in a 36-Year Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Provenance Study

Provenance studies are an increasingly important analog for understanding how trees adapted to particular climatic conditions might respond to climate change. Dendrochronological analysis can illuminate differences among trees from different seed sources in terms of absolute annual growth and sensit...

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Published in:PloS one 2016-05, Vol.11 (5), p.e0154730-e0154730
Main Authors: Leland, Caroline, Hom, John, Skowronski, Nicholas, Ledig, F Thomas, Krusic, Paul J, Cook, Edward R, Martin-Benito, Dario, Martin-Fernandez, Javier, Pederson, Neil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Adaptation
Analysis
Annual variations
Biology and Life Sciences
Carbon cycle
Climate
Climate Change
Climatic analysis
Climatic conditions
Dendrochronology
Disturbance
Earth Sciences
Ecological monitoring
Ecology
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Environment
Environmental conditions
Environmental impact
Forest ecosystems
Forests
Geography
Growing season
Growth factors
Growth rate
Insects
Interannual variability
Internet
New Jersey
Observatories
Outbreaks
People and places
Pest outbreaks
Pine
Pine trees
Pinus - growth & development
Pinus coulteri
Pinus rigida
Pinus taeda
Plantations
Provenance
Provenance (Geology)
Sensitivity analysis
Studies
Tree growth
Trees
Trends
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Summary:Provenance studies are an increasingly important analog for understanding how trees adapted to particular climatic conditions might respond to climate change. Dendrochronological analysis can illuminate differences among trees from different seed sources in terms of absolute annual growth and sensitivity to external growth factors. We analyzed annual radial growth of 567 36-year-old pitch pine (Pinus rigida Mill.) trees from 27 seed sources to evaluate their performance in a New Jersey Pine Barrens provenance experiment. Unexpectedly, missing rings were prevalent in most trees, and some years-1992, 1999, and 2006-had a particularly high frequency of missing rings across the plantation. Trees from local seed sources (
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0154730