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Title: Growth assessment of native tree species from the southwestern Brazilian Amazonia by post-AD 1950 14C analysis: implications for tropical dendroclimatology studies and atmospheric 14C reconstructions
Keywords: Radiocarbon (14C) dating
Tree-ring analysis
Tropical dendrochronology
Amazon basin
Lower latitudes
Issue Date: 2021
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Citation: SANTOS, G. M. et al. Growth assessment of native tree species from the southwestern Brazilian Amazonia by post-AD 1950 14C analysis: implications for tropical dendroclimatology studies and atmospheric 14C reconstructions. Forests, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 9, 2021.
Abstract: Tree-ring width chronologies of cedro (Cedrela fissilis Vell.) (1875 to 2018), jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril L.) (1840 to 2018) and roxinho Peltogyne paniculata Benth.) (1910 to 2018) were developed by dendrochronological techniques in the southern Amazon Basin. Acceptable statistics for the tree-ring chronologies were obtained, and annual calendar dates were assigned. Due to the lack of long-term chronologies for use in paleoclimate reconstructions in degraded forest areas, dendrochronological dating was validated by 14C analysis. Tree-rings selected for analysis corresponded to 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1971, and 1972. Those are critical calendar years in which atmospheric 14C changes were the highest, and therefore their tree-ring cellulose extracts 14C signatures when in alignment with existing post-AD 1950 atmospheric 14C atmospheric curves would indicate annual periodicity. Throughout our correlated calendar years and post-AD 1950 14C signatures, we indicate that H. courbaril shows an erratic sequence of wood ages. The other two tree species, C. fissilis and P. paniculata, are annual in nature and can be used successfully as paleoclimate proxies. Moreover, due to the sampling site’s strategic location in relation to the Tropical Low-Pressure Belt over South America, these trees can be used to enhance the limited amount of observational data in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric 14C calibration curves.
URI: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1177
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