A comparison of the climate response of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) trees among standardized measures of earlywood, latewood, adjusted latewood, and totalwood radial growth

Soulé, Peter T.; Knapp, Paul A.; Maxwell, Justin T.; Mitchell, T.

doi:10.1007/s00468-021-02093-z

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“…Kaiser et al (2020) applied tree core/climate relationships toward understanding the selection of longleaf stems as cavity trees by the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates borealis Vieillot), endemic to longleaf pine ecosystems. Differentiating between types of radial growth (i.e., earlywood, latewood), Soulé et al (2021) sampled longleaf stands in the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas and concluded that radial growth is primarily driven by late summer moisture availability.…”

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The University of West Florida Campus Ecosystem Study: age-diameter and growth relationships of longleaf pine using hurricane-induced windthrows

2022

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The campus of the University of West Florida was constructed among second-growth longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) stands that survived extensive logging in the Florida Panhandle. Previous studies on longleaf pine on the main UWF campus have estimated that 65% of these pines are 75 to 125 years old, with estimates based on a model from old-growth longleaf in southern Georgia.To obtain more accurate age data, one can use an increment corer to collect samples from live trees on site; more accurately, disks can be collected from recently fallen trees. On 16 September 2020, Hurricane Sally impacted UWF as a Category 2 storm, with winds reaching 125 kph. Our study took advantage of longleaf pines blowdowns by Sally to obtain cross-sections for age determinations. Two on-campus natural areas were chosen for sampling: the Edward Ball Nature Trail and the Baars-Firestone Wildlife Sanctuary. For each sampled section, diameter at breast height (DBH) and number of annual rings were recorded. Based on a total of 50 sampled trees, linear regression revealed a highly significant (P<0.00001; r 2 =0.84) relationship between DBH and age. Applying this to DBH measures of 2,165 stems on the main campus indicates that the oldest longleaf pines are ~130 years old (mean age = 63.9±0.4 yr), consistent with cessation of historically wide-spread harvesting in the region. Mean age for the Trails site (55.7±1.6 yr) was significantly lower than that of the Sanctuary (66.7±2.0 yr), suggesting that they represented sites of contrasting land-use history. Direction of stem windthrows did not vary between natural areas and was consistent with characteristics of the eyewall of Hurricane Sally with strongest wind gusts moving from a southeast to northwest direction.

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The University of West Florida Campus Ecosystem Study: age-diameter and growth relationships of longleaf pine using hurricane-induced windthrows

2022

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“…For example, studies have found that longleaf pine latewood ring width produces the strongest climate-growth relationships [33][34][35][36][37][38][39]. Most recently, Stambaugh et al [30] and Soulé et al [29] exclusively used latewood ring-growth when cross-dating longleaf pine, and Soule et al [29] advocates for latewood cross-dating for all southeastern pine (e.g., Pinus echniata Mill.) with similar growth patterns.…”

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“…The International Tree-Ring Databank [28] provides access to established tree-ring chronologies across the US, and we downloaded all chronologies within a 500 km radius of Tupelo, Mississippi that matched the wood species/genus identified in the structure. For the pine chronology, we exclusively used latewood for cross-dating due to the higher degree of interannual variability relative to earlywood and total width (Figure 3; [29,30]). We used the total width for the oak and poplar chronologies, as seasonally-resolved reference chronologies were unavailable at the time of this study.…”

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Latewood Ring Width Reveals CE 1734 Felling Dates for Walker House Timbers in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Patterson

Harley

Holt

et al. 2021

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Dendroarchaeology is under-represented in the Gulf Coastal Plain region of the United States (US), and at present, only three published studies have precision dated a collection of 18th–19th-century structures. In this study, we examined the tree-ring data from pine, poplar, and oak timbers used in the Walker House in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Walker House was constructed ca. the mid-1800s with timbers that appeared to be recycled from previous structures. In total, we examined 30 samples (16 pines, 8 oaks, and 6 poplars) from the attic and crawlspace. We cross-dated latewood ring growth from the attic pine samples to the period 1541–1734 (r = 0.52, t = 8.43, p < 0.0001) using a 514-year longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) latewood reference chronology from southern Mississippi. The crawlspace oak samples produced a 57-year chronology that we dated against a white oak (Quercus alba L.) reference chronology from northeast Alabama to the period 1765–1822 (r = 0.36, t = 2.83, p < 0.01). We were unable to cross-date the six poplar samples due to a lack of poplar reference chronologies in the region. Our findings have two important implications: (1) the pine material dated to 1734 represents the oldest dendroarchaeology-confirmed dating match for construction materials in the southeastern US, and (2) cross-dating latewood growth for southeastern US pine species produced statistically significant results, whereas total ring width failed to produce significant dating results.

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“…Much about the relationship between climate and growth of longleaf trees comes from correlative studies using dendrochronological records [34,36,37] . Dendrochronology is a well-purported dating method capable of determining growth, climate, disturbance, and anthropogenic histories from living trees and preserved wood [38,39] .…”

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“…Longleaf pine is a quality dendroclimatological species given its historical abundance, slow decay, climactic sensitivity, and long lifespan [33] . Multiple centurieslong chronologies from longleaf growth rings have been produced [34,36,37] . Another useful characteristic of longleaf pine is that the transition from EW to LW is characteristically discrete and occurs relatively consistently between May and June [33,34] .…”

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Current Standing of Longleaf Pine Trees under Climate Change

Bowman¹,

Chen²

2022

j. of bot. res.

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Climate change poses many risks to economically and ecologically crucial species. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) trees are keystone species that were once dominant across the southeastern United States, but now occupy less than 5% of their historic range and are thus classified as endangered. Here we review the current status and challenges facing longleaf pine trees, what is known on how changing climate will impact longleaf growth and reproduction, and gaps in the literature that are important to address. We found that many fundamental aspects of longleaf pine growth and reproduction are understood. However, these systems are complex, and not all is known about each factor that influences the relationship between climate, growth, and reproductive output. Additionally, long-term data sets capable of examining all relevant factors in these relationships do not currently exist. To fill necessary gaps, we recommend a joint approach between using readily available data sets and establishing new long-term monitoring plots targeted to collect data on missing or poorly understood conditions. This review provides a clue from an ecological complexity perspective to understand and manage longleaf pine forests under climate change.

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A comparison of the climate response of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) trees among standardized measures of earlywood, latewood, adjusted latewood, and totalwood radial growth

Cited by 21 publications

References 28 publications

The University of West Florida Campus Ecosystem Study: age-diameter and growth relationships of longleaf pine using hurricane-induced windthrows

The University of West Florida Campus Ecosystem Study: age-diameter and growth relationships of longleaf pine using hurricane-induced windthrows

Latewood Ring Width Reveals CE 1734 Felling Dates for Walker House Timbers in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Current Standing of Longleaf Pine Trees under Climate Change

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