利用树轮资料重建青海都兰地区过去1835年的气候变化

根据青海都兰地区树木年轮样本,建立了上前我国最长的年轮年表序列（１８３５a）,系 统地与所在地区气候资料进行了综合分析。通过响应函数计算得出,该年表对温度因子的反映更为第三一些。在响应面分析中发现,温度、降水与年轮宽度的关系呈现出随温度和降水的不同而不同。在温度低而降水量少的情况下,其线性相关性明显;但在温度较高和降水量较多时,树轮与两要素间的关系就显得不明显。另外,还对该年表玮秋季平均温度的关系进     

Stable isotope coherence in the earlywood and latewood of tree-line conifers

Annually resolved and replicated tree-ring stable isotope series have the potential to reconstruct growing season environmental parameters over multi-millennial timescales. As this archive may require only minimal statistical detrending, it has the potential to preserve a large portion of low frequency climate signals. To date, many studies have utilised only the latewood portion of the tree ring, in an attempt to minimize carry-over effects from previous year reserves and maximise the annual nature of the climate signal preserved. However, the old trees from tree-line locations, necessary to build long chronologies, often display narrow ring-widths (< 0.5 mm), making accurate earlywood–latewood separation difficult and particular time consuming. The resulting samples may also be too small for efficient cellulose purification or multiple isotopic determinations. As photosynthates from the current year are predominantly used in conifer ring formation at marginal sites with short growing seasons, latewood separation may not be especially advantageous in determining a useful climate signal and therefore unnecessary where resources are limited. To test this hypothesis, Scots pine from Northern Norway and European larch from the Swiss Alps are used. Both sites are tree-line locations where growth is predominantly temperature limited. Tree rings were cut and extracted to cellulose for both the earlywood and latewood of each annual growth ring and stable carbon isotope ratios were measured. Our results demonstrate a very high common carbon isotope signal between earlywood and latewood in both species (r_larch = 0.68 and r_pine = 0.79), which also show high correlations with summer temperature over the investigated period (AD 1980–2004 for larch and AD 1929–1978 for pine). High turnover rates and small reserve pools at these tree-line locations may account for these high common signals. These results suggest that for European tree-line conifers, the separation of earlywood from latewood is unnecessary to resolve an annual isotopic signal and make a reliable climate calibration. Using the whole ring may provide additional analytical advantages and consequently even improve climate calibrations.     

新疆阿勒泰地区小冰期特征的树轮δ13C记录

建立了新疆阿勒泰地区一个长约450a的落叶松树轮碳同位素年表.该年表一个最为明显的特点是1850年后年轮δ¹³C显著降低,这是化石燃料燃烧和土地利用方式改变的缘故.在1550—1850年期间,该年表经历了明显的距平“正负”(即暖冷)变化:17世纪年轮δ¹³C值相对偏负,气温较低,18世纪年轮δ¹³C值相对偏正,温度较高.根据已有的树轮δ¹³C温度系数,17世纪的温度相对偏低约0.67～2.46℃.广泛的区域性对比表明,该年表所揭示的小冰期温度变化具有较高的可信度。     

秦岭东部牛背梁自然保护区巴山冷杉树轮宽度与气候因子的关系

基于树木年代学方法,通过响应分析与回归分析对秦岭东段主脊牛背梁自然保护区巴山冷杉（Abies fargesii）树轮宽度所蕴涵的气候意义进行探讨。结果表明：巴山冷杉年轮宽度标准化年表和差值年表的各项特征值较高,反映树轮资料包含较强的环境信息;归纳相关分析结果,发现春夏季气温是树木径向生长的主导因子,当年1-8月不同时段的平均气温普遍对巴山冷杉生长有促进作用,其中1-2月平均气温对树木生长的影响最为显著,而前一年10-11月平均气温的“滞后作用”不可忽略。降水不是该区巴山冷杉生长的主要限制因子,但当年1-2月的降水过多会导致组织生长减缓;回归模型能较好模拟年轮宽度与气候因子之间的关系,据此结合极宽、极窄轮出现年份的气候状况印证了巴山冷杉树轮宽度年际变化是生长季初期气温、降水相互制衡、共同作用的结果,并推测巴山冷杉林带位置有向高海拔迁移的可能。为秦岭植被生长在气候变化过程中的生态模式演变研究提供一定的依据。     

天山北坡精河1615—2007年径流量变化的树轮记录

中国天山北坡西部精河流域山区的树木年轮记录了气候与水文变化过程,利用树轮宽度重建流域径流量长期变化历史对艾比湖湿地自然保护区生态保护和流域水资源利用具有重要意义.建立了精河流域山区2个采样点的天山云杉树轮宽度年表,分析其对流域气象和水文要素的响应特征,建立了树轮宽度标准年表与精河水文站上年9月到当年8月径流量的线性转换方程(R2=37.5%, P<0.001),重建了公元1615—2007年的径流量变化历史.丰枯年份和持续丰枯期分析表明:精河出山口径流量重建序列包含7个丰水年和11个枯水年,且发生了13次持续丰水期和10次持续枯水期.多窗谱分析发现径流量序列在99%的置信水平上存在56.8 年、6.9 年、3.8 年、3.4 年、2.0~2.1 年周期,其中6.9 年对应厄尔尼诺-南方涛动(ENSO)事件的周期,同时还发现了重建序列与南方涛动指数的显著负相关(r =-0.329,n=56),表明研究区径流量受大尺度海气耦合模式的影响.精河径流量序列与天山北坡玛纳斯河和乌鲁木齐河的丰枯阶段以及天山山区、伊犁地区降水变化的干湿阶段较好的对应,表明天山北坡水文和气候变化的大尺度环流背景和驱动因子一致.     

Synchronous variability changes in Alpine temperature and tree-ring data over the past two centuries

The understanding of extremes and their temporal distribution is useful in characterizing the behaviour of the climate system, and necessary for understanding their social and economic costs and risks. This task is analogous to the study of pointer years in dendrochronological investigations. Commonly used dendroclimatological methods, however, tend to result in an equalization of variance throughout the record by normalizing variability within moving windows. Here, we analyse a larger network of high-elevation temperature-sensitive tree sites from the European Alps processed to preserve the relative frequency and magnitude of extreme events. In so doing, temporal changes in year-to-year tree-ring width variability were found. These decadal length periods of increased or decreased likelihood of extremes coincide with variability measures from a long-instrumental summer temperature record representative of high-elevation conditions in the Alps. Intervention analysis, using an F-test to identify shifts in variance, on both the tree-ring and instrumental series, resulted in the identification of common transitional years. Based on a well-replicated network of sites reflecting common climatic variation, our study demonstrates that the annual growth rings of trees can be utilized to quantify past frequency and amplitude changes in extreme variability. Furthermore, the approach outlined is suited to address questions about the role of external forcing, ocean-atmosphere interactions, or synoptic scale changes in determining patterns of observed extremes prior to the instrumental period.     

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.      

Weakening climatic signal since mid-20th century in European larch tree-ring chronologies at different altitudes from the Adamello-Presanella Massif (Italian Alps)

Tree rings from temperature-limited environments are highly sensitive climate proxies, widely used to reconstruct past climate parameters for periods prior to the availability of instrumental data and to analyse the effect of recent global warming on tree growth. An analysis of the climatic signal in five high-elevation tree-ring width chronologies of European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) from the tops of five different glacial valleys in the Italian Central Alps revealed that they contain a strong summer-temperature signal and that tree-ring growth is especially influenced by June temperatures. However, a moving correlation function analysis revealed a recent loss of the June temperature signal in the tree-ring chronologies. This signal reduction primarily involves the two lowest-altitude chronologies. It is probable that the observed increasing importance of late-summer temperature for tree-ring growth over the past 50 yr is an effect of the lengthening growing season and of the variations in the climate/tree-ring relationship over time. All the chronologies considered, especially those at the highest altitudes, show an increasing negative influence of June precipitation on tree-ring growth. The climatic signal recorded in tree-ring chronologies from the Italian Central Alps varies over time and is also differentially influenced by climatic parameters according to site elevation.     

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。     

树轮记录的阿尼玛卿山区过去 830年夏半年最高温变化*

利用采自黄河源区阿尼玛卿山的祁连圆柏(Juniperus prezewalskii)样芯,采用国际规范的树轮学研究方法对所有树轮样芯进行了精确定年。针对各样芯不同的生长趋势分别采用负指数函数、线性函数和样条函数拟合与树龄有关的树木生长趋势。对个别在样芯中存在缺失段或缺失年轮过多难以准确判定缺失位置的样芯,采用"搭桥"的方法建立完整序列,最后用ARSTAN软件计算合成树轮宽度年表,最长序列为1532a,在满足复本要求的基础上建立了长度为830a的树轮宽度年表,并对年表的基本统计特征进行了分析。初步的分析结果表明该年表的年轮指数与研究区夏季温度成显著负相关,并在此基础上重建了研究区过去830年来夏半年(4~9月)平均最高温的变化。重建序列包含有大量的高频变化信息,又有十分显著的低频变化趋势。研究区在重建时段内经历了3个较为显著的降温期,其中1820s~1900s的降温趋势不同于该时期全球平均温度的升高趋势。另外,分析表明在重建时段内升温期较短,但是升温幅度大于降温幅度,迅速升温可能导致研究区严重干旱事件的发生。     

祁连山中东部青海云杉径向生长对气候变暖的响应差异

气候变暖对森林生态系统产生了深刻影响,而树木生长对气候变化做出了不同的响应。本研究利用采自祁连山中、东部不同海拔梯度的青海云杉（Picea crassifolia）树轮样本,分别建立了中部和东部6个树轮宽度年表,分析了树木径向生长与各气候要素的关系以及随时间变化的稳定性。结果表明：祁连山中部青海云杉对降水和scPDSI较东部更为敏感。中部树轮宽度年表与当年5—7月的scPDSI极显著正相关（P<0.001）,东部树轮宽度年表与前一年9月和当年5月scPDSI显著正相关,表明中部LCH区域青海云杉径向生长主要受当年5—7月土壤水分条件的限制;东部XYH区域则受前一年9月和当年5月的土壤水分的限制。20世纪80年代中东部温度显著升高（P<0.001）,中东部树木生长受高温引起的干旱胁迫增强;20世纪90年代以后,由于中部降水增加而东部降水变化不明显,中部树木生长干旱压力得到缓解,东部森林受干旱的限制作用增强。此外,中东部青海云杉与温度、降水和scPDSI的相关关系逐渐趋向一致,未来气候的持续变暖或许将减小中东部树轮-气候关系的差异。     

阿尼玛卿山不同海拔祁连圆柏树轮宽度年表特征对比分析

利用阿尼玛卿山地同一坡面的不同海拔高度获取的4组树木年轮样本,建立了不同海拔梯度的树轮宽度指数年表.各年表中较高的信噪比SNR和样本总体解释量EPS表明,各采样点树木中含有较多的共同环境信息,从低海拔向高海拔的递减反映了高海拔小生境差异对树木生长影响较大;平均敏感度和标准差随海拔升高呈先递减后递增的趋势.气候因子对整个坡面的树木生长起着主导影响,其中气温的作用更大一些.可靠年表的平均序列长度随海拔升高变短,表明树木生长是沿着山坡逐渐向上迁移的.不同海拔树轮宽度可靠年表间高频变化一致,10 a滑动的高生长和低生长的不一致则反映了低频变化的差异.相关分析表明,生长在森林上限的树木对环境因子的响应滞后于森林下限,生长在最大降水高度附近的树木对环境因子响应的敏感性最低.     

Radial growth of Tamarix ramosissima responds to changes in the water regime in an extremely arid region of northwestern China

The response of radial growth of tamarisk (Tamarix ramosissima) growing on the shore of West-Juyan Lake, on the Heihe River in northwestern China, to changes in the lake’s water regime was studied using tree-ring chronologies, principal components (PC) analysis, and classical correlation analysis. The first PC accounted for 53.3% of the total variance and reflected a common growth response at different sites. Correlation analysis indicated that fluctuations in the lake’s water level during the growing season (May–August) was primarily responsible for variations in the radial growth of tamarisk and explained more of the variance at low-lying sites than at higher sites. The second PC accounted for 30.7% of the total variance and revealed distinct differences in growth response between low-lying sites and those on higher ground. Total annual precipitation played an important role in radial growth of tamarisk at the higher sites. The spatial pattern in the tree-ring chronologies for different sites was performed in the temporal pattern of the tree-ring chronology at the same site. Other factors such as microtopography, soil salinity, sand activity, and browsing by herbivores also affected the radial growth of tamarisk. The diversity in responses to the maximum water table depth for tamarisk in the study area appears to have been caused by local variations in precipitation, which can compensate to some degree for the inability of a plant’s roots to reach the water table.     

树轮记录的天山南坡阿克苏河过去300a径流变化特征

利用采自天山南坡阿克苏河上游5个采样点的树木年轮样本,建立了5个树木年轮宽度年表．树轮宽度年表与近48a阿克苏河径流资料相关普查表明,阿克苏河年径流量与树轮标准化宽度年表显著相关,最高单相关系数达0．611（α〈0．00001）．利用该年表重建了阿克苏河过去300a的年径流量系列,经多方面验证表明,重建结果具有较好的可...     

树轮记录的西北季风边缘区干旱变化

祁连山东部位于亚洲季风西北边缘区,对气候变化十分敏感。由于该区位于半干旱区,降水的变化直接影响人类社会经济的发展,所以研究该区干旱变化情况及其机制非常重要。 利用采自祁连山东部西北季风边缘、地处半干旱区的吐鲁沟地区的油松树轮样芯,建立了树轮宽度年表,时间跨度为1866-2003AD。树轮宽度年表与气象因子相关分析结果显示树木生长主要响应生长季内的降水和干旱变化。该年表与附近区域利用树轮宽度重建的帕尔默干旱指数（PDSI）进行对比,结果显示严重的干旱时间发生在1920s-1930s、1966年、1974年、1982年和1990s和21世纪初。多窗谱分析研究表明,该区年表序列存在显著的2~4 a周期（P<0.05）,该周期与ENSO变率吻合,与在贺兰山、祁连山其他地区、兴隆山及贵清山研究结果一致,表明这些区域可能受共同气候因子的影响。     

Tree-ring-based mass-balance estimates for the past 300 years at Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada

Tree rings were used to reconstruct mass balance for Peyto Glacier in the Canadian Rocky Mountains from A.D. 1673 to 1994. Summer balance was reconstructed from tree-ring estimates of summer temperature and precipitation in the Canadian Rockies. Winter balance was derived from tree-ring data from sites bordering the Gulf of Alaska and in western British Columbia. The models for winter and summer balance each explain over 40% of the variance in the appropriate mass-balance series. Over the period 1966-1994 the correlation between the reconstructed and measured net balances is 0.71. Strong positive mass balances are reconstructed for 1695-1720 and 1810-1825, when higher winter precipitation coincided with reduced ablation. Periods of reconstructed positive mass balance precede construction of terminal moraines throughout the Canadian Rockies ca. 1700-1725 and 1825-1850. Positive mass balances in the period 1845-1880 also correspond to intervals of glacier readvance. Mass balances were generally negative between 1760 and 1805. From 1673 to 1883 the mean annual net balance was +70 mm water equivalent per year (w.e./yr.), but it averaged −317 mm w.e./yr from 1884 to 1994. This reconstructed mass balance history provides a continuous record of glacier change that appears regionally representative and consistent with moraine and other proxy climate records.     

Environmental change during the Allerød and Younger Dryas reconstructed from Swiss tree-ring data

Annually resolved tree-ring width variations and radiocarbon ages were measured from a collection of 120 Lateglacial pine stumps excavated on the Swiss Plateau. These data – representing the oldest absolutely dated wood samples worldwide – extend the absolute tree-ring chronology from Central Europe by 183 years back to 12 593 cal. yr BP (10 644 cal. yr BC). They also yield a 1420-year floating chronology covering the entire Allerød and the early Younger Dryas (14 170–12 750 cal. yr BP). Radiocarbon data suggest a 250-year jump in the ¹⁴C reservoir correction around the time of the Allerød to Younger Dryas transition, although calendric dating of the floating chronology – by filling a ∼150 year gap – is necessary for confirmation. Various subgroups, based on the year of germination, were used to assess temporal changes in growth characteristics along the Allerød to Younger Dryas transition. Comparison of these Lateglacial data with a reference data set of living and historic pines from the Swiss Valais (AD 940–2000) revealed differences in both growth trend and level. The generally slower Lateglacial growth was likely influenced by higher geomorphic activity and severe climatic conditions. After removal of the biological age-trend, a strong common signal found in the tree-ring data suggests some skill in estimating interannual to multidecadal Lateglacial climatic variations.     

A 352-year record of summer temperature reconstruction in the western Tianshan Mountains,China, as deduced from tree-ring density

Three robust tree-ring density chronologies were developed for the western Tianshan Mountains of northwestern China. The chronologies were significantly correlated and form a regional chronology (GLD). The GLD had significant and positive correlations with temperature of warm seasons. Based on this relationship, the mean minimum temperatures of May to August were reconstructed using the GLD chronology for the period AD 1657 to 2008. The temperature reconstruction exhibited temperature patterns on interannual to centennial timescales, and showed that the end of the 20th century is the warmest period in the past 352 years. The reconstructed temperature variation has a teleconnection with large-scale atmospheric–oceanic variability and captures long- and broad-scale regional climatic variations.     

Climatic significance of tree-ring δO in the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China and its relationship to atmospheric circulation patterns

It is important to understand the history and dynamics of climate in a transitional region between areas with different atmospheric circulation patterns, where the vegetation and ecosystems are vulnerable to environmental change. We investigated variations in the long-term oxygen isotope composition (δ¹⁸O) in tree rings of Qinghai spruce (Picea crassifolia) and their relationships to climatic parameters in the arid Qilian Mountains of northwestern China from 1870 to 2006. We found that the mean temperature from the previous November to the current February was significantly and positively correlated with the tree-ring δ¹⁸O values. The temperature effect, (the positive relationship between the temperature and the precipitation δ¹⁸O value) can explain the connection between temperature and the tree-ring δ¹⁸O values. Due to pooling of the earlywood and latewood into yearly tree-ring samples, it appears that the cellulose δ¹⁸O may be influenced by isotopically nonhomogeneous water sources and climatic conditions during the previous and current growing seasons. Subtle shifts and amplitude deviations in cellulose δ¹⁸O, which abruptly became more positive around 1977–1978, may be attributed to the shifting climatic regime in China and to temperature variations, respectively. Our results illustrated the potential for investigating climatic or atmospheric circulation patterns based on oxygen isotope records in tree rings in regions near the interface between different large-scale synoptic circulations.     

Exploring the potential of tree-ring chronologies from the Trafoi Valley (Central Italian Alps) to reconstruct glacier mass balance

Two tree-ring chronologies of stone pine ( Pinus cembra L.) and two of Norway spruce ( Picea abies Karst.) were constructed on the basis of data from three high-altitude sites in the Trafoi Valley (Central Alps, Italy) to test tree species sensitivity to climate at different sites and to explore the potential of the two species for reconstructing the mass balance of two glaciers in the same region (the Careser and Hintereis glaciers). Influence of climate on tree-ring growth and on glacier mass variations was tested by means of Pearson's correlation and response functions. At highest altitude sites, both species appeared to be sensitive to July temperatures, while stone pine also showed higher sensitivity than Norway spruce to previous winter precipitation. Comparing the dendrochronological and glaciological series, stone pine showed higher negative correlations with glacier mass balance series than Norway spruce. These different relationships reflect different species responses to climate, and stone pine is potentially useful in reconstructing past glacier mass balance in the Central Alps. Extreme climatic events induce different and even contrasting responses of tree-ring growth and glacier mass variations and may therefore bias tree-ring-based glacier mass balance reconstructions.