On the palaeoclimatic potential of a millennium-long oak ring width chronology from Slovakia

0464092 - ÚVGZ 2017 RIV IT eng J - Journal Article
Prokop, O. - Kolář, Tomáš - Büntgen, Ulf - Kyncl, J. - Bošela, M. - Choma, M. - Barta, P. - Rybníček, Michal
On the palaeoclimatic potential of a millennium-long oak ring width chronology from Slovakia.
Dendrochronologia. Roč. 40, DEC (2016), s. 93-101. ISSN 1125-7865. E-ISSN 1612-0051
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) LO1415; GA ČR GA13-04291S
Institutional support: RVO:67179843
Keywords : Composite tree-ring chronology * European oak * Palaeoclimatology * Random update sampling * Ring width * Slovakia
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour
Impact factor: 2.259, year: 2016

Although Slovakia is largely forested and rich in historical buildings, it is one of the few European countries without a millennium-long tree-ring chronology. In this study, we gather all available oak ring width data from Slovakia, establish a new composite chronology and assess its climate sensitivity. The nation-wide oak network includes 276 samples from historical buildings and 1028 modern series from material that was randomly collected at sawmills and wood submission sites across Slovakia. The final composite oak record covers the period from CE 967–2013, reflects a distinct hydroclimatic signal from late spring to early summer, and is highly correlated with other oak chronologies from surrounding countries. Although this study reveals a high degree of growth coherency and climate sensitivity inherent to the new Slovakian oak ring width chronology, changes in sample size at the transition from modern to relict material and further back in time limit any applicability to palaeoclimatic analysis.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0263139