Pchron {BIOdry}

Tree-ring width (TRW) chronology

Description

TRW chronology for Pinus pinaster forests from two sample plots in northern Spain (Soria) and east-central Spain (Cuenca). The data set contains eight TRW series. To account for source variability, two trees were selected per site, and two samples were extracted from each tree.

Usage

data(Pchron)

Format

data.frame object with eight columns.

Rows

Row names of the data set are time-units labels (years of formation).

Columns

Column names represent levels in three within-stand ecological factors that are common to most TRW data and represent variability in stand qualities (stand), tree-radial morphology (sample), and tree genetics/phenotypes (tree). The names are dot-separated labels representing the hierarchy of the three ecological factors, where higher ecological-factor levels are defined first and lower levels after. For example, code 'P16106.17.a' is the column name of sample replicate 'a' in tree '17' in plot 'P16106'.

Details

This data set belongs to a more extensive tree-ring chronology which was processed in previous studies (Bogino and Bravo, 2008) by measuring TRW in polished-core samples (5 mm diameter) using the Windendro program and cross-dating the tree-ring chronologies using COFECHA software. Time units for the TRWs are formation years spanning from 1861 to 2005. The cross-dating records suggested that maritime pine chronologies had high SNR: (23-28 in northern Spain, and 38-61 in east-central Spain) and high EPS (0.96 in northern Spain, and 0.98 in east-central Spain).

References

Bogino, S., and Bravo, F. (2008). Growth response of Pinus pinaster Ait. to climatic variables in central Spanish forests. Ann. For. Sci. 65, 1-13.

Examples

 str(Pchron)