Facilitating tree-ring dating of historic conifer timbers using Blue Intensity

0521225 - ÚVGZ 2020 RIV US eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Wilson, R. - Wilson, D. - Rydval, M. - Crone, A. - Büntgen, Ulf - Clark, S. - Ehmer, J. - Forbes, E. - Fuentes, M. - Gunnarson, B. E. - Linderholm, H. W. - Nicolussi, K. - Wood, C. - Mills, C.
Facilitating tree-ring dating of historic conifer timbers using Blue Intensity.
Journal of Archaeological Science. Roč. 78, FEB 2017 (2017), s. 99-111. ISSN 0305-4403. E-ISSN 1095-9238
Institucionální podpora: RVO:86652079
Klíčová slova: summer temperatures * british-columbia * density network * dendroclimatology * scotland * reconstructions * canada * proxy * wood * Tree-ring dating * Dendroarchaeology * Blue Intensity * Conifers
Obor OECD: Environmental and geological engineering, geotechnics
Impakt faktor: 3.061, rok: 2017
Způsob publikování: Open access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316301819?via%3Dihub

Dendroarchaeology almost exclusively uses ring-width (RW) data for dating historical structures and artefacts. Such data can be used to date tree-ring sequences when regional climate dominates RW variability. However, the signal in RW data can be obscured due to site specific ecological influences (natural and anthropogenic) that impact crossdating success. In this paper, using data from Scotland, we introduce a novel tree-ring parameter (Blue Intensity BI) and explore its utility for facilitating dendrohistorical dating of conifer samples. BI is similar to latewood density as they both reflect the combined hemicellulose, cellulose and lignin content in the latewood cell walls of conifer species and the amount of these compounds is strongly controlled, at least for trees growing in temperature limited locations, by late summer temperatures. BI not only expresses a strong climate signal, but is also less impacted by site specific ecological influences. It can be concurrently produced with RW data from images of finely sanded conifer samples but at a significantly reduced cost compared to traditional latewood density. Our study shows that the probability of successfully crossdating historical samples is greatly increased using BI compared to RW. Furthermore, due to the large spatial extent of the summer temperature signal expressed by such data, a sparse multispecies conifer network of long BI chronologies across Europe could be used to date and loosely provenance imported material. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0305859