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2002
Volume 5
Issue 2
Topic:
Forestry
ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Wilczyński S. , Skrzyszewski J. 2002. DEPENDENCE OF SCOTS PINE TREE-RINGS ON CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN SOUTHERN POLAND (CARPATIAN MTS.), EJPAU 5(2), #07.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume5/issue2/forestry/abs-07.html

DEPENDENCE OF SCOTS PINE TREE-RINGS ON CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN SOUTHERN POLAND (CARPATIAN MTS.)

Sławomir Wilczyński, Jerzy Skrzyszewski

 

ABSTRACT



The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of air temperatures and atmospheric precipitation on the tree-ring width of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) growing in Western Carpathian Mts. In 29 pine stands growing between 400 and 700 m above sea level ring samples were taken from 580 trees. The samples were used for measurements of the annual growth rings (dendro-scales). The regional chronology of ring width were calculated as an average from all the 580 dendro-scales. The analysed period was 1900-1998. On the basis of analysis of the response function significant (PŁ0.05) positive relations were found between the width of tree-rings and average temperatures of October of the preceding year and months of the winter (January, February, and March) and summer (June, July, and August) periods. Positive relations were also determined between the ring width and total precipitation in spring (March, April) and summer (June, July, and August), negative relations be

Key words: Scots pine, dendrochronology, dendroclimatology.