A Theory-Driven Approach to Tree-Ring Standardization: Defining the Biological Trend from Expected Basal Area Increment

By Franco Biondi, Fares Qeadan. 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) – Site water supply and fertility modify the mixing effect (2020, methodology): “The bai was used as basis of assessment, as it is a two-dimensional measure that is known to better reflect tree growth of the whole tree (volume) rather than the one-dimensional growth of tree ring width (Biondi and Qeadan, 2008).”
Disentangling the effect of competition, CO2 and climate on intrinsic water‐use efficiency and tree growth (2016, background): “…used because, unlike ring width series and with the exception of the first years of increasing juvenile growth rates, they minimize the effect of tree size and age on annual growth trends while retaining the high- and low-frequency signals contained in the tree-ring series (Biondi & Qeadan 2008).”
Extreme drought alters competitive dominance within and between tree species in a mixed forest stand (2013, methodology): “The suitability of the chronologies for cross-dating was assessed using mean sensitivity (MS), a measure of the yearto-year variability of tree growth (Biondi & Qeadan 2008a).”
Distinct effects of climate warming on populations of silver fir (Abies alba) across Europe (2015, background): “The BAI calculation removes the geometrical constraint of adding a volume of wood to a stem of increasing radius (Biondi & Qaedan, 2008).”
Growth patterns and sensitivity to climate predict silver fir decline in the Spanish Pyrenees (2012, background): “In healthy trees, BAI series usually show an early phase of low growth followed by a rapid juvenile increase and a final stable phase of maturation (Biondi and Qaedan 2008).”
Drought response and changing mean sensitivity of European beech close to the dry distribution limit (2013, background): “…under given climatic conditions, trees on sites with a lower available water capacity (AWC) show a greater site sensitivity and have, at the same time, a lower growth rate than trees at sites with higher AWC; (2) the pattern of drought response is more pronounced at dry sites than at mesic sites.”
From xylogenesis to tree rings: wood traits to investigate tree response to environmental changes (2019, methodology): “Downloaded from Brill.com03/06/2020 05:27:55AM via free access it is not possible to define a single objective and always effective way to standardise ring-width series (Cook & Kairiukstis 1990; Biondi & Qeadan 2008).”
Tree‐to‐tree competition in mixed European beech–Scots pine forests has different impacts on growth and water‐use efficiency depending on site conditions (2018, methodology): “We used BAI because it is a more biologically meaningful expression of growth than tree ring widths or indices, since BAI displays a young exponential phase and reaches an asymptotic phase when trees reach a mature stage (Biondi & Qaedan, 2008).”
Is drought the main decline factor at the rear edge of Europe? The case of southern Iberian pine plantations (2012, methodology): “Instead, we analyzed raw ringwidth series and ring-width series transformed to basal area increments using standard methods for such transformations (Biondi and Qaedan, 2008).”
Mixture reduces climate sensitivity of Douglas-fir stem growth (2016, methodology): “…(BAI) series instead of ring width series for detrending and statistical analyses, because the BAI as a two-dimensional measurement, better reflects threedimensional growth of the whole tree (volume) than the onedimensional growth of tree ring width (Biondi and Qeadan, 2008a; LeBlanc, 1990).”
Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an extreme drought (2016, background): “The BAI represents a more accurate indicator of growth than tree-ring width since it removes the variation caused by adding volume to a circular stem (Biondi & Qaedan 2008).”