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Climate control on ring width and intra-annual density fluctuations in Pinus kesiya growing in a sub-tropical forest of Manipur, Northeast India

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Growth ring study of Pinus kesiya (khasi pine) growing in sub-tropical forest in Manipur, northeast India was performed to understand climate signatures in ring widths and intra-annual density fluctuations.

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The growth rings in khasi pine (Pinus kesiya Royle ex Gordon) growing in sub-tropical Reserve Forest in Imphal, Manipur, northeast India were analysed to understand environmental signals present in ring-width series and intra-annual density fluctuations (IADFs). For this the growth ring sequences in increment core samples collected from 28 trees were precisely dated and a ring-width chronology spanning AD 1958–2014 developed. The correlation analyses between ring-width chronology and weather data of Imphal revealed that a cool April–May–June favour tree growth. The wood anatomical features of growth rings revealed the occurrence of IADFs in early- and latewoods. The IADFs in earlywood were found to be associated with reduced precipitation in months from April to July. However, the wetter conditions in late growing season, especially August/September triggered the formation of IADFs in latewood. Our findings endorse that the IADF chronologies of khasi pine could emerge as an important proxy of summer monsoon rainfall in long-term perspective in data scarce region of northeast India.

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Acknowledgments

VS, AKY and KGM thank Dr. Sunil Bajpai, Director, Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow for providing necessary facilities. Authors express their sincere gratitude to Prof. Achim Bräuning, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for his critical comments and valuable suggestions on the manuscript. Authors also express their sincere thanks to two anonymous reviewers for their critical comments that helped in improvement of the text. The senior author (DS) expresses his sincere thanks to the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi for financial support under Fast Track Young Scientist programme (SB/YS/LS-29/2014).

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, Manipur University, Imphal, India

    N. Dhirendra Singh, Thingbaijam B. Singh & Chongtham Sanjita

  2. Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53 University Road, Lucknow, India

    Ram R. Yadav, Vikram Singh, Akhilesh K. Yadava & Krishna G. Misra

  3. Centre of Advance Study in Botany, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India

    N. Venugopal

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Singh, N.D., Yadav, R.R., Venugopal, N. et al. Climate control on ring width and intra-annual density fluctuations in Pinus kesiya growing in a sub-tropical forest of Manipur, Northeast India. Trees 30, 1711–1721 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-016-1402-9

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