A 435-year-long European black pine (Pinus nigra) chronology for the central-western Balkan region
Citation
Poljanšek, S., Ballian, D., Nagel, T.A., Levanič, T., 2012. A 435-year-long European black pine (Pinus nigra) chronology for the central-western Balkan region. Tree-Ring Research 68(1):31-44.Publisher
Tree-Ring SocietyJournal
Tree-Ring ResearchDOI
10.3959/2011-7.1Additional Links
http://www.treeringsociety.orgAbstract
We describe the development of the first black pine (Pinus nigra Arnold) regional chronology for the central-western Balkan area, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), based on seven site chronologies from different parts of the country. Pointer-year analysis identified a common signal (possibly climate) in the site chronologies—at least five positive (1876, 1930, 1941, 1969) and nine negative pointer years (1874, 1880, 1891, 1931, 1943, 1963, 1971, 1987, 2000) are common to all seven study sites. Site chronologies were compared using statistical parameters and visual crossdating, from which we constructed a 435-year-long tree-ring width chronology for P. nigra for BiH and compared it with existing P. nigra chronologies from Montenegro, Greece, Albania, Austria (Vienna region), and France (Corsica). The resulting statistical and visual similarity indicated that the chronology has a strong regional signal and therefore can be included in the dendrochronological network for P. nigra for the Western Balkans.Language
enISSN
2162-45851536-1098
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3959/2011-7.1