树木年轮学在环境变化研究中的应用

由于树木在其生长的过程中,需要从环境中吸收养分和能量并且从环境中汲取各种化学元素到每年的生长层(即年轮)中,所以树木年轮与它们的生长环境是密切相关的。树木年轮可以提供树轮生长的环境要素信息,其应用领域也日益扩大。文章综述了树木年轮长年表的建立以及在气候变化、环境污染等方面的若干应用,并且概述了树木年轮研究方法的进展。     

树轮纤维素中氢同位素的气候意义

树木生长历史是由CO_2和H_2O参加的新陈代谢过程。所以水圈的行为和特点,将影响树木的生长并为树木所记录下来。树木年轮是树木生长的记年来,不仅记录了树木生长的年代,还记录了生长环境的特点,如气候条件、水体条件以及一些可以造成生态环境变化的突     

树木年轮研究的扫描图像分析方法及其在环境演变中的应用

本文主要探讨用普通扫描仪作为获取树轮信息手段的有效途径,以及研究将图像分析和数字处理技术应用于树木年轮学的方法。通过对树轮图像的分布特征和噪声变化规律的统计分析,本文设计出一套图像分割、信息提取算法和相应的处理程序。从实际的应用效果以及与其它树轮研究方法所作的对比分析结果表明,这种扫描图像处理方法不仅可行,而且高效、准确,拓宽了树木年轮学方法在环境演变研究中的应用途径。     

钢铁厂附近树木年轮的磁学性质及其环境意义

通过磁学手段以树木年轮为研究对象,通过多参数磁学研究探讨钢铁厂周围环境污染的历史.研究表明:钢铁厂附近树木年轮样品中磁性矿物为准单畴(其中颗粒偏向于多畴)的磁铁矿,磁性矿物形状各异,粒径大小不一;样品中磁铁矿的含量随年份的不同差异很大;通过树木不同方向上磁性参数尤其是饱和等温剩磁(SIRM)值的差异以及扫描电镜(SEM)和X射线能谱(EDX)分析,发现树木木质部中的磁性颗粒来自于树皮,即大气中颗粒被树皮和树叶表面吸附后,在树木的生长季节通过树皮进入形成层的木质部细胞,然后通过木质化作用被固定在当年生长的树木木质部木材中;另外,朝向钢铁厂方向的树干年轮钻芯样品SIRM值与对应年份钢铁厂年生产量之间高度相关,磁性颗粒在年轮之间不存在横向迁移,树干年轮钻芯的磁性参数(SIRM和部分磁滞参数)可指示该区大气环境污染的历史;污染树木钻芯样品的SIRM随时间的变化曲线说明该研究区大气污染日益严重.     

树轮气候学中树木年轮密度分析方法的研究进展

树木年轮密度（树轮密度）分析作为树轮气候学的一种研究方法,能够提取更准确的环境信息,应用范围更广,在过去环境变化研究中受到越来越广泛的重视。讨论了树轮密度测量技术与树轮密度分析方法在过去气候变化研究中的发展历程及最新研究成果,认为X射线分析法仍然是目前被广泛采用的树轮密度分析手段,基于树轮密度数据的过去温度变化重建仍是树轮密度研究的主要方向。相关研究表明：森林上限和高纬度地区树木年轮的最大晚材密度对夏季温度变化非常敏感,可以用来重建过去几百年、乃至千年的不同空间尺度的温度变化;树轮早材密度或最小早材密度对降水量的响应比较显著,但目前主要集中于重建区域小尺度的降水量变化方面。另外,树轮密度分析结果还可以用来研究某些气候要素分量的变化（季节变化、气候事件爆发的早晚和持续时间等）、区域气候变化的影响因子以及海气动力机制、气压异常等。     

辽西下白垩统义县组化石木年轮的观察及其意义

对辽宁省西部下白垩统义县组化石木年轮的研究表明,明显清晰的年轮反映了当时的气候具有明显的季节性特征;连续年轮宽度的变化情况表明当时的气候波动强烈,反映了干旱-半干旱的波动特点;义县组各种化石木的平均敏感度(MS)在0～0.2间,表明树木总体生长在年降水量或水供应较均匀的环境.     

少量树木年轮样品的X射线荧光光谱分析

采用活体采样技术，对少量树木年轮样品的制备和测定方法进行了研究。使用X射线荧光光谱和透空测量方式，对树木年轮中Cl、Si、Na、Al、Mg、P、S、Ca、K、Ti、Mn、Fe、Zn、Cu、Pb、Rb、Sr、Ba等18种元素进行了分析测定，结果与其他方法相符，部分元素的精密度（RSD，n=10）为0．2％～15％。该法效果比较好，同时保证了少量树木年轮样品无损失、无化学组成变化．为后续的等离子体原子发射光谱和质谱联测创造了条件。     

吐哈盆地中二叠世古气候重建:来自木化石年轮的证据

收集木化石年轮数据有助于古气候重建工作.首次通过对吐哈盆地北东缘中二叠统塔尔郎组中发现的木化石的年轮统计分析,还原了吐哈盆地中二叠世的古气候演化过程.木化石的年轮分析表明:该区中二叠世整体处于季节性明显的北亚热带,气候整体相对温暖,但出现过间歇性相对炎热的气候.木化石较低的晚材率以及部分年轮早材到晚材为过渡突变,反映树木生长时期季节性非常明显,夏季湿热,冬季干冷,为典型的亚热带季风型气候.木化石具较高的平均敏感度 (MS平均可达0.4),显示树木生长期间受季风气候的影响,环境非常不稳定,每年大气降水量有很大的变化.连续年轮宽度的宽窄不一以及伪年轮的存在,表明当时气候变化频繁,整体较为湿润,但也具有干旱-半干旱的波动.      

洞穴碳酸钙古气候研究进展

洞穴碳酸钙是陆地环境中一种极为重要的一种古气候信息库［１］。人们已逐渐地认识到诸如石笋、流石、方解石脉等与树木年轮、冰芯、黄土以及湖泊沉积物一样,对环境的敏感性而留下过去变化的高分辨率记录［２］。为了破译这些“密码。”,对它们进行高精度和高分辨率的研...     

天山博格达峰地区树木年轮与近期的气候变化

利用树木年轮来推断古气候,是研究气候变化的一种有效途径。一个好的树木年轮序列相当于一部可靠的气候变化史册。特别是对一些荒凉的高山地区,其使用意义和价值更大。年轮宽度能较好地反映大旱、低温等异常气候。一九八一年中日联合考察队对天山博格达峰地区进行冰川考察,采集了一棵年轮为150年左右的天山云杉(PiceaTianshanensis),对这棵树的年轮宽度序列分析如下。     

树轮年代学的若干进展

树轮年代学是一门研究树木木质部年生长层，以及利用年生长层来定年的科学。由于树轮不仅是一种定年工具，它本身还可提供树轮生成时的环境要素信息，为一种环境变化的代用资料。在全球变化特别是在过去全球气候变化研究中，树轮年代学受到愈来愈广泛的重视，在近期内取得了长足的、惊人的进展。本文仅在树轮长年表的建立，树轮年代学生物基础研究──模式研究，利用树轮对环境要素变化的研究，以及树轮的图像分析等几个与环境变化研究相关的方面和本学科目前研究热点的若干进展，予以概要的论述。     

Late Holocene climatic variability reconstructed from incremental data from pines and pearl mussels – a multi‐proxy comparison of air and subsurface temperatures

Helama, S., Läänelaid, A., Tietäväinen, H., Macias Fauria, M., Kukkonen, I. T., Holopainen, J., Nielsen, J. K. & Valovirta, I. 2010: Late Holocene climatic variability reconstructed from incremental data from pines and pearl mussels – a multi‐proxy comparison of air and subsurface temperatures. Boreas, Vol. 39, pp. 734–748. 10.1111/j.1502‐3885.2010.00165.x. ISSN 0300‐9483. Dendrochronological and sclerochronological records are mean series of arboreal and molluscan increments that are correctly aligned in time by rigorous dating. These records of tree rings and annual shell‐growth increments exhibit climate signals that can be used to reconstruct fluctuations and trends in past climates. Here we present a multi‐proxy reconstruction of temperature histories using a combination of dendrochronological and sclerochronological evidence. Regional curve standardization (RCS) was used to remove the non‐climatic variations from dendrochronological and sclerochronological series prior to palaeoclimatic interpretation. Conventional and signal‐free methods of RCS were compared. It was found that the signal‐free methods produced more reliable chronologies and systematically higher climate–proxy correlations. Consequently, the temperature reconstructions were derived using the chronologies constructed by this method. Proxy‐based histories of summer (July–August) temperatures were reconstructed from AD 1767 onwards. The compound use of proxies resulted in reconstructions that were of higher quality than single‐proxy reconstructions. Further improvement of reconstructions was accomplished by the inclusion of lagging increment values in the transfer functions. The final multi‐proxy model explained 58% of the temperature variance over the instrumental period. The multi‐proxy temperature reconstruction correlated well with the long records of instrumental temperatures from Tornedalen, St. Petersburg, Uppsala and Stockholm. Overall, the reconstruction for the past 250 years agreed reasonably well with borehole temperature reconstructions obtained in northern Finland. In general, this study demonstrates the benefits of the compound use of several proxies in reconstructing climate histories. In particular, the study emphasizes the so far largely unexploited advantages of multi‐proxy data sets obtained by rigorously cross‐dated incremental chronologies to produce more robust palaeoclimatic reconstructions.     

Dating of snow avalanches by means of wound‐induced vessel anomalies in sub‐arctic Betula pubescens

Dendrogeomorphic research has long relied on scarred trees to reconstruct the frequency of mass‐movement processes. Injuries have mostly been dated macroscopically by counting the tree rings formed after wounding. Tree‐ring anatomical anomalies induced by cambial injury, in contrast, have only recently been recognized as proxy records of past events. We investigated 12 sub‐arctic downy birch (Betula pubescens Ehrh.) trees scarred by snow avalanches in Norway and Iceland. Earlywood vessel lumina were measured for each tree in the xylem tissue bordering the scars. Seven successive rings were examined, namely two control rings laid down prior to wounding and five rings in the wound xylem. We provide evidence that snow‐avalanche‐induced wounding resulted in atypically narrow earlywood vessels over at least two years. Our data demonstrate that wound‐associated vessel anomalies represent tangible markers of mass‐movement processes, and as such make a viable tool for reconstructing past events. Similar dendrogeomorphic studies based on tree‐ring anatomy can be readily conducted with other mass‐movement processes, as well as with other broad‐leaved tree species. Ultimately, this new approach will foster increment coring over more invasive sampling techniques.     

树轮纤维素中氧同位素温度意义

树轮作为自然档案中的一种, 其同位素研究是较为新颖的领域文章比较系统地从树轮纤维素的提取、氧的来源、植物体内氧的分馏、与温度变化的关系等４ 个方面评述了树轮纤维素氧同位素组成的气候学意义已有的研究结果表明, 树轮纤维素氧同位素组成的变化是温度变化的良好载体, 但在定量恢复古温度变化时遇到了不少限制, 有待于进一步完善分馏模型     

Tree ring dating using oxygen isotopes: a master chronology for central England

Ring‐width dendrochronology, based on matching patterns of ring width variability, works best when trees are growing under significant environmental (climatic) stress. In the UK, and elsewhere in the temperate mid‐latitudes, trees generally experience low stress, so dating is more difficult and often fails. Oxygen isotopes in tree rings passively record changes in the isotopic ratios of summer precipitation, so they carry a strong common signal, which offers potential for cross‐dating. A master chronology covering the period 1200–2000 ce was constructed using the oxygen isotope ratios of the latewood cellulose of oak samples from central England. Two independent chronologies, developed to verify the isotopic signal, were combined (n = 10 trees) and the method was evaluated by dating timbers of known age and historical timbers that could not be dated by ring‐width dendrochronology, from both within and beyond the central England region. The agreement between samples and the master chronology is exceptionally strong, allowing the dating of timbers with far fewer rings than is normally the case for ring‐width dendrochronology. Tree‐ring oxygen isotope values are more suited to correlation analysis than tree‐ring widths, so it is possible to provide t‐values that conform to Student's t‐distribution and can be converted into probabilities of error. A protocol for assigning dates using ‘stable‐isotope dendrochronology’ is proposed, which has the potential to revolutionize the dating of wooden structures and artefacts, allowing the dating of short and invariant ring sequences from young, fast‐grown trees. Such samples are commonplace throughout the historical building and archaeological records and were, until now, considered impossible to date. © 2019 The Authors. Journal of Quaternary Science Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd     

利用树轮宽度重建近280 a来祁连山东部地区的春季降水

利用采自祁连山东部的祁连圆柏样芯样本，建立标准化年表，并将标准年表的树轮指数与附近的乌鞘岭气象站的温度和降水进行相关分析，结果表明，年轮指数与3－4月降水呈显著正相关，相关系数为0．525，利用标准化年表与3－4月降水的线性回归方程重建了研究区近280a来的3－4月降水，统计检验表明重建结果是可靠的。     

交叉定年技术及其在高分辨率年代学中的应用

高分辨率年代学标尺是高分辨率过去环境变化的研究基础。树轮年代学中的交叉定年技术是一种较为成熟的高分辨率年代学研究方法 ,其技术的核心是找到一个受共同的环境限制因子控制的可量化指标 (如树轮宽度 ) ,通过一定数量的样本进行交叉比较 ,来得到一个高分辨率的年代学序列。该技术中一些有益的概念和方法可以推广应用于其它高分辨率过去环境变化的研究中 ,文中通过对树轮年代学中的交叉定年技术原理的研究 ,剖析交叉定年技术的方法及其核心技术内涵 ,为该技术的扩展应用提供内在的科学依据 ,并对其应用前景进行探讨。     

Up to 400‐year‐old Rhododendron shrubs on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: prospects for shrub‐based dendrochronology

In harsh and treeless environments, shrubs constitute the dominant growth form of woody plants, thus offering the opportunity to extend dendrochronological networks beyond the uppermost and northernmost distribution limits of trees. However, shrub‐based dendrochronology has so far resulted in only a few long and climate‐responsive ring‐width chronologies at such stressful sites, particularly above the alpine tree line. A previous study on an alpine Rhododendron shrub species resulted in <80‐year‐long ring‐width chronologies. Here, we collected Rhododendron aganniphum var. schizopeplum stems from elevations between 4000 and 4500 m a.s.l. on the SE Tibetan Plateau and built six tree‐ring width chronologies. One of them is 401 years long and well replicated from AD 1670 to 2011 (EPS>0.85), thus representing the longest shrub chronology available to date. A principal component analysis (PCA) converted the total variability of all six site chronologies into PCs. Then, the six site chronologies and the PC1, accounting for 65.9% of the total variance of the tree‐ring width, were correlated with time series of monthly climate data. Based on this, the year‐to‐year variability of the ring‐width indices was positively correlated with July temperature, which thus turned out to be the dominant factor controlling growth. Accordingly, such long shrub‐ring chronologies may act as climatic and ecological proxies in treeless environments of the Tibetan Plateau.     

非冰期突然气候变化与太阳变化

本文试图介绍发生在非冰期,主要是全新世的突然气候变化研究所取得的进展,包括山地冰川和深海沉积物所记录的全新世突然气候变化,季风和干旱气候突然变化,以及突然气候变化与太阳变化的关系。太阳变化对整个全新世气候变化的影响似乎正愈来愈明晰起来。     

Research Advance of Shrub Dendrochronology in the Cold and Arid Regions of China

Along with the booming of dendrochronology in China, the woody species for the tree-ring study have expanded gradually from tree species to the shrub and dwarf shrub species in the last decades. The zonal woody species in the vast alpine mountains, arid desert areas and arid regions in China are mostly shrubs and semi-shrubs, which is very important to understand the process of regional evolution, environmental protection and ecological recovery. In this paper, the shrub species which have been studied on tree rings in cold and arid areas of China were collected and sorted, and the fundamental research advances were presented, which include the shrub tree ring identification, radial growth characteristics, and chronology construction by different parameters. The applications of shrub dendrochronology to the subjects in eco-response, paleoclimate reconstruction, hydrological process, ecological study of artificial forest and ecological restoration were also presented. The prospect of shrub dendrochronology in the future was also discussed.