Tree-ring widths and the stable isotope composition of pine tree-rings as climate indicators in the most industrialised part of Poland during CO2 elevation

Sensuła, Barbara; Wilczyński, Sławomir

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Tree-ring widths and the stable isotope composition of pine tree-rings as climate indicators in the most industrialised part of Poland during CO₂ elevation

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Article Category: Regular Articles

Published Online: Jul 19, 2018

Page range: 130 - 145

Received: Oct 12, 2017

Accepted: Jun 06, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0094

Keywords
climate, stable carbon isotopes, stable oxygen isotopes, pine tree-rings, industrial region, Silesia

© 2017 B. Sensuła and S. Wilczyński, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Meteorological data for the nearest meteorological stations to the investigated area: Opole (O) and Katowice (K): mean temperature, sunshine duration, total rainfall and air relative humidity, for the period 1951–2012).

Indexed site chronologies of pine stands.

The correlation coefficients between the indexed site chronologies and the distance between pine sites.

The results of the cluster analysis of 16 correlation-coefficient series (left) calculated between the indexed site chronologies and 26 climatic parameters (see Fig. 5) and the location of 16 indexed site chronologies to the loadings of the first and second components (right).

The correlation coefficients calculated between the indexed site chronologies and site monthly values of temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, and sunshine duration (correlation-coefficient series) from the previous September (SEP) to current September (Sep).

Significant correlation coefficients (at the 95% level) calculated between PC1, and PC2 and monthly values of temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, and sunshine duration from the previous September (SEP) to the current September (Sep).

Trends of δ13C (measured value: HK, KK, LA and corrected values: HKc, KKc, LAc) and δ18O in α-cellulose samples extracted from pines growing in three forests in HK, KK, and LA.

(a) Theoretical scenarios (Scheidegger et al., 2000) for the interaction between the stomatal conductance (g) and photosynthesis (A) and isotope composition of plants; (up- or downward arrows represent increasing or decreasing values, *indicates insignificant changes) and (b) a comparison of the δ13C and δ18O series for the investigated sites: (b) HK, (c) KK, and (d) LA for three periods of time: since 1957–1990 prior to significant modernisation in the factories, since 1991–2000, when was a significant modernisation in the factories; since 2001 – the period when the pro-ecological strategy was implemented in each factory due to changes in the Polish law.

(a) Increased intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) in pines during increases in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere (in the period from 1975 to 2012), (b) the correlations between intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) and a land surface temperature anomaly (TA) (the deviation from the long-term average, NOAA).

The correlation coefficients between δ13Cc (corrected values) and δ18O in α-cellulose samples from three forests in HK, KK, and LA, and (a) annual climatic factors: mean temperature (T), sum of precipitation (P), sunshine (S), and relative humidity (H) from previous year (p) and current year and (b) monthly climatic factors: mean temperature, sum of preciptation, sunshine, and relative humidity; significance level = 95%.

Forward evolutionary interval correlations (bootstrap correlation function) between monthly climate factors (temperature, precipitation, duration of sunshine, humidity) and carbon (a) and oxygen (b) the stable isotopic composition of tree-ring cellulose for the period 1975–2012, for the September of the previous year to the September of the current year, using a base length of 26 (plotted against the last year of the period); significance level = 95%.

The localisation of the sampling sites_

Stand (region)	Lab code	Geographical coordinates
Kędzierzyn-Koźle (KK)	KKT	50° 18′N; 18°20’E

	KKS	50° 18′N; 18°17′E

	KKB	50°21′N; 18°18’E

	KKA	50° 19′N; 18°15’E

	KKC	50°20′N; 18°19’E

	KKN	50°22′N; 18°23′E

Laziska (LA)	LAW	50°8′N; 18°53′E

	LAM	50°9′N; 18°56′E

	LAP	50°10′N; 18°58′E

Dabrowa Gornicza (HK)HKB2	HKE	50°20′N; 19°23′E

	HKBB	50°24′N; 19°22′E

	HKB2	50°24′N; 19°21′E

	HKFF	50°21′N; 19°19′E

	HKF2	50°24′N; 19°28′E

	HKC2	50°26′N; 19°29′E

	HKD1	50°31′N; 19°31′E

The correlations between the values of δ13C for three forests and the correlations between the values of δ18O for three forests: Dąbrowa Górnicza near Huta Katowice (HK), Kędzierzyn-Kożle (KK), and Łaziska (LA) (all values are significant at p < 0_05)_

δ¹³C	site	HK	KK	LA

	HK	-	0.61	0.56
	KK	0.61	-	0.66
	LA	0.56	0.66	-



δ¹⁸O	site	HK	KK	LA

	HK	-	0.34	0.51
	KK	0.34	-	0.52
	LA	0.51	0.52	-

The statistics of 16 tree-ring-site collections for the period 1951–2012 (MS: mean sensitivity, rbt: mean between-tree series correlation, EPS: expressed population signal, SNR: signal-to-noise ratio, Var_PC1: variance in the first component)_

	No. of trees and cores	r_bt	EPS	SNR	MS	Var.pc1
HKE	20	0.279	0.886	7.7	0.255	37

HKBB	20	0.322	0.905	9.5	0.219	47

HKB	20	0.445	0.941	16.0	0.236	60

HKFF	20	0.300	0.896	8.6	0.283	43

HKF	20	0.334	0.909	10.0	0.286	45

HKC	20	0.545	0.960	23.9	0.226	66

HKD	20	0.227	0.855	5.9	0.265	36

LAW	20	0.518	0.953	21.5	0.284	64

LAP	20	0.399	0.930	13.3	0.285	51

LAM	20	0.514	0.954	21.2	0.308	63

KKA	20	0.361	0.918	11.3	0.204	49

KKB	20	0.421	0.935	14.5	0.197	54

KKC	20	0.355	0.916	11.0	0.201	48

KKN	20	0.319	0.903	9.4	0.158	46

KKS	20	0.424	0.936	14.7	0.191	55

KKT	20	0.371	0.922	11.8	0.210	50

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Tree-ring widths and the stable isotope composition of pine tree-rings as climate indicators in the most industrialised part of Poland during CO₂ elevation

Article Category: Regular Articles

Published Online: Jul 19, 2018

Page range: 130 - 145

Received: Oct 12, 2017

Accepted: Jun 06, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0094

Keywords
climate, stable carbon isotopes, stable oxygen isotopes, pine tree-rings, industrial region, Silesia

© 2017 B. Sensuła and S. Wilczyński, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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The localisation of the sampling sites_

The correlations between the values of δ13C for three forests and the correlations between the values of δ18O for three forests: Dąbrowa Górnicza near Huta Katowice (HK), Kędzierzyn-Kożle (KK), and Łaziska (LA) (all values are significant at p < 0_05)_

The statistics of 16 tree-ring-site collections for the period 1951–2012 (MS: mean sensitivity, rbt: mean between-tree series correlation, EPS: expressed population signal, SNR: signal-to-noise ratio, Var_PC1: variance in the first component)_

Tree-ring widths and the stable isotope composition of pine tree-rings as climate indicators in the most industrialised part of Poland during CO2 elevation

Barbara Sensuła

Sławomir Wilczyński

Article Category: Regular Articles

Published Online: Jul 19, 2018

Page range: 130 - 145

Received: Oct 12, 2017

Accepted: Jun 06, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0094

Keywordsclimate, stable carbon isotopes, stable oxygen isotopes, pine tree-rings, industrial region, Silesia

© 2017 B. Sensuła and S. Wilczyński, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Fig. 1

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Fig. 11

The localisation of the sampling sites_

The correlations between the values of δ13C for three forests and the correlations between the values of δ18O for three forests: Dąbrowa Górnicza near Huta Katowice (HK), Kędzierzyn-Kożle (KK), and Łaziska (LA) (all values are significant at p < 0_05)_

The statistics of 16 tree-ring-site collections for the period 1951–2012 (MS: mean sensitivity, rbt: mean between-tree series correlation, EPS: expressed population signal, SNR: signal-to-noise ratio, Var_PC1: variance in the first component)_

Tree-ring widths and the stable isotope composition of pine tree-rings as climate indicators in the most industrialised part of Poland during CO₂ elevation

Keywords
climate, stable carbon isotopes, stable oxygen isotopes, pine tree-rings, industrial region, Silesia