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Environmental Change in Siberia pp 101–114Cite as

Dendroclimatological Evidence of Climate Changes Across Siberia

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A major focus of the study described here is an attempt to reveal the nature of local and any widespread tree-growth responses to the recent warming seen in the instrumental observations. Namely, this chapter discusses spatial variation in the trends of radial tree-ring growth in Siberia and the Far East during different periods of the 18th to 20th centuries. That distribution of trends is compared with spatial NDVI trends and temperature changes in the northern hemisphere over the past 20 years. A new classification approach is described to associate different spatial-temporal samples of tree-ring trends with recent tendencies of Siberian vegetation activity. Obtained shot-term tree-growth tendencies for the eighteenth–twentieth centuries are characterized by a common decrease of trend values from West to East with highest values for southern latitudes of Siberia and comparable to NDVI trends. But a recent spatial sample of tree-growth trend is described by highest variation for the last 250 years which can be explained by the most significant recent warming in the context of 2,000 years.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are very grateful to Keith Briffa and Tom Melvin, whose competent advices were invaluable in preparing this work. This work was supported by the Royal Society (UK) (Royal Society No R14577), the Russian Foundation of Basic Researches (RFBR No 09-05-00900-a), the Grant of Russian Federation President (No MD-7845.2010.5).

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  1. IT and Math. Modelling Department, Krasnoyarsk State Trade-Economical Institute, L. Prushinskoi Street, Krasnoyarsk, 660075, Russia

    V. V. Shishov

  2. Dendroecology Department, Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademgorodok Street, Krasnoyarsk, 660036, Russia

    V. V. Shishov

  3. Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodnji Ave, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia

    E. A. Vaganov

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Shishov, V.V., Vaganov, E.A. (2010). Dendroclimatological Evidence of Climate Changes Across Siberia. In: Balzter, H. (eds) Environmental Change in Siberia. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8641-9_7

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