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Climatic signal from Pinus leucodermis axial resin ducts: a tree-ring time series approach

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Developing long-term chronologies of tree-ring anatomical features to evaluate climatic relationships within species might serve as an annual proxy to explore and elucidate the climatic drivers affecting xylem differentiation. Pinus leucodermis response to climate was examined by analyzing vertical xylem resin ducts in wood growing at high elevation in the Apennines of peninsular Southern Italy. Early- and latewood tree-ring resin duct chronologies, spanning the 1804–2010 time period, were constructed. We analyzed the relationships between resin duct chronologies and climate over the last century using correlation and response function analyses. Overall, results showed that ring width and resin duct relationships differed between early- and latewood, which indicated conditions affecting growth were not associated with resin duct production. Results also revealed differential responses to climate between early- and latewood resin duct chronologies. A notable observation was a positive and stable relationship between latewood resin duct number chronology and July maximum temperature throughout the twentieth century. This result suggested resin ducts might be a suitable proxy to evaluate P. leucodermis response to climate in the study area.

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This work was funded by the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca-Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (MIUR-PRIN, Italy) 2002 (Grant No. 2002075152) and 2005 (Grant No. 2005072877) granted to AS. The Pollino National Park administration allowed access to the study site. S. De Stefano and D. Alagia provided technical assistance in field surveys. We thank P. Krusic for his useful suggestion on the data analysis and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Conflict of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Dipartimento di Agraria, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Via Università 100, 80055, Portici, Italy

    Antonio Saracino & Angelo Rita

  2. Scuola di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università della Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Angelo Rita & Luigi Todaro

  3. Département des Sciences Fondamentales, Université du Québec, Chicoutimi 555, Boulevard de l’Université, Chicoutimi, QC, G7H2B1, Canada

    Sergio Rossi

  4. Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China

    Sergio Rossi

  5. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY, 10964–1000, USA

    Laia Andreu-Hayles

  6. Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam, German Centre for GeoSciences–GFZ, Section 5.2 Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution, Telegrafenberg C127, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Gerhard Helle

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Saracino, A., Rita, A., Rossi, S. et al. Climatic signal from Pinus leucodermis axial resin ducts: a tree-ring time series approach. Eur J Forest Res 136, 27–36 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-016-1005-4

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