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dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Brendan M.
dc.contributor.authorHansen, Kyle G.
dc.contributor.authorGriffin, Kevin L.
dc.contributor.authorSchmiege, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorOelkers, Rose
dc.contributor.authorD’Arrigo, Rosanne D.
dc.contributor.authorStahle, Daniel K.
dc.contributor.authorDavi, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Tran Quoc Trung
dc.contributor.authorLe, Canh Nam
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Rob J. S.
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-30T15:30:10Z
dc.date.available2018-04-30T15:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.identifier.citationBuckley , B M , Hansen , K G , Griffin , K L , Schmiege , S , Oelkers , R , D’Arrigo , R D , Stahle , D K , Davi , N , Nguyen , T Q T , Le , C N & Wilson , R J S 2018 , ' Blue intensity from a tropical conifer’s annual rings for climate reconstruction : an ecophysiological perspective ' , Dendrochronologia , vol. 50 , pp. 10-22 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.04.003en
dc.identifier.issn1125-7865
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 252900030
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 87a4eb54-6e16-4e5c-97e2-8703f8c4d122
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:62B10BBA10CD6A429A84643CF47C40F4
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85046141599
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4486-8904/work/59953614
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000438755400002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/13264
dc.descriptionThis research was funded by the National Science Foundation of the USA research grants AGS 12-03818 and AGS 13-03976, with additional funding from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s Climate Center and Climate and Life initiatives.en
dc.description.abstractWe developed Blue Intensity (BI) measurements from the crossdated ring sequences of Fokienia hodginsii (of the family Cupressaceae) from central Vietnam. BI has been utilized primarily as an indirect proxy measurement of latewood (LW) density of conifers (i.e., LWBI) from high latitude, temperature-limited boreal forests. As such, BI closely approximates maximum latewood density (MXD) measurements made from soft x-ray. The less commonly used earlywood (EW) BI (EWBI) represents the minimum density of EW and is influenced by the lighter pixels from the vacuoles or lumens of cells. The correlation of our BI measurements with climate, strongest for EWBI, rivals that for total ring width (RW), and we demonstrate that it can be successfully employed as an independent predictor for reconstruction models. EWBI exhibits robust spatial correlations with winter and spring land temperature, sea surface temperature (SST) over the regional domain of ENSO, and the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) over Indochina. However, in order to mitigate the effects of color changes at the heartwood – sapwood boundary we calculated ΔBI (EWBI-LWBI), and it too exhibits a significant (p < 0.05), temporally stable response to prior autumn (Oct-Nov) rainfall and winter (December to April) dry season temperature. We interpret this response as reflecting a potential cavitation defense by reducing lumen diameter as a means to safeguard hydraulic conductivity in the stem, and to prevent the xylem from imploding due to negative pressure. This study has wide implications for the further use of BI from the global tropics, though it is unclear how many tropical tree species will be appropriate for use. It seems very likely that other wood anatomical measurements can be combined with BI and RW for climate reconstruction.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofDendrochronologiaen
dc.rights© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/).en
dc.subjectBlue intensityen
dc.subjectTropical dendrochronlogiaen
dc.subjectFokienia hodginsiien
dc.subjectVietnamen
dc.subjectDendroclimatologyen
dc.subjectMonsoon climateen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectSDG 15 - Life on Landen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleBlue intensity from a tropical conifer’s annual rings for climate reconstruction : an ecophysiological perspectiveen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Earth & Environmental Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Instituteen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.04.003
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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