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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH  2013, Vol. 33 Issue (4): 1117-1123    DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2013.00158
Weather and Climate     
Response of Tree Radial Growth to Climate Factors in the Northeastern and Southern Tibetan Plateau: A case study at Qifeng and Linzhou
HE Min-hui, YANG Bao, QIN Chun, LIU Jing-jing, KANG Shu-yuan
Key laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Abstract  

Research on the response of tree radial growth to climate factors at different regions is a basic work for modeling or predicting influences of climate change on forest ecosystem. The statistical characteristics of tree-ring standard chronologies in the northeastern (Qifeng, QF) and southern (Linzhou, LZ) Tibetan Plateau showed high sensitivity as well as good consistency, verified the credibility of the relationships between tree radial growth and climatic parameters. Correlation and response analysis of QF and LZ tree-ring width series and climate factors (monthly mean temperature, monthly mean maximum temperature, monthly mean minimum temperature and monthly precipitation) from previous May to current September in Jiuquan (1951-2009) and Dangxiong (1963-2009) meteorological stations showed that both QF and LZ tree-ring width series were negatively correlated with May-June temperature with the correlation coefficients of -0.360 and -0.466, and positively correlated with May-June precipitation with the correlation coefficients of 0.499 and 0.623, respectively. QF and LZ tree-ring width series were positively correlated with monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) for each month during 1951-2005. We found that May-June PDSI showed the highest correlations with QF and LZ tree-ring width series by correlation coefficients of 0.581 and 0.719, respectively. Precipitation from previous July to current June also showed higher correlations with QF and LZ tree-ring width series by correlation coefficients of 0.529 and 0.667, respectively. Therefore, it is considered that moisture conditions may be the main limiting factor to tree radial growth in the northeastern and southern Tibetan Plateau.

Key words:  tree-ring      correlation and response      correlation-response analysis      Tibetan Plateau     
Received:  18 April 2012      Published:  20 April 2012
ZTFLH:  P467  

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HE Min-hui, YANG Bao, QIN Chun, LIU Jing-jing, KANG Shu-yuan. Response of Tree Radial Growth to Climate Factors in the Northeastern and Southern Tibetan Plateau: A case study at Qifeng and Linzhou. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2013, 33(4): 1117-1123.

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