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Abstract

Environment

How to Extract Climate Variability from Tree-Rings

Published: March 9th, 2022

DOI:

10.3791/63414

1INIFAP, CENID-RASPA, 2Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 3Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, 4Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, 5Instituto de Geografía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 6Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas y Forestales, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua

Abstract

Tree rings have been used to reconstruct climatological variables in many locations around the world. Moreover, tree-rings can provide valuable insights into climatic variability of the last few centuries and, in some areas, several millennia. Despite the important development, that dendrochronology has had in recent decades to study the dendroclimatic potential of a large number of species present in different ecosystems, much remains to be done and explored. In addition to this, in the last few years more people (students, teachers and researchers) around the world are interested in implementing this science to extend the timeline of climate information backwards and understand how climate has changed on scales of decades, centuries or millennia. Therefore, the objective of this work is to describe the general aspects and basic steps needed to conduct a tree-ring climate reconstruction, from site selection and field sampling to laboratory methods and data analysis. In this method's video and manuscript, the general basis in tree-ring climatic reconstructions is explained so newcomers and students can use it as an available guide into this field of research.

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