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Work interests: Plant Physiology, Forestry, Stable Isotopes, Archaeobotany, Agriculture, Plant breeding, Ecohydrology
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Contact: ARAID-Dept. of Forest Resources, Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragón (CITA) Avda. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, SPAIN
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Work: Plant ecophysiology, stable isotopes, archaeobotany, palaeoenvironment, plant breeding
Affiliations: ARAID-Dept. of Forest Sciences, Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragón (CITA)
Predicting spatial variability of climate from tree-rings
I would like to draw your attention to our recent publication:
del Castillo J, Aguilera M, Voltas J, Ferrio JP (2013) Isoscapes of tree-ring carbon-13 perform like meteorological networks in predicting regional precipitation patterns. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 118, 352-360
In this work, we managed to model spatial variability in mean annual precipitation from isotope data in a network of tree-ring sampling sites. Interestingly, the predictive ability of the models was almost identical to that obtained using a network of meteorological data with similar spatial density. This opens the possibility to upscale tree-ring reconstructions from local to regional levels.
Looking forward to getting your comments and suggestions about this study.
Figure: Comparison between A) annual precipitation according to the Atlas Climtico Digital de la Peninsula Ibrica (source: http://opengis.uab.es/wms/iberia/) and B) relative errors in isoscapes-estimated precipitation, based on the D13C of wood from Pinus halepensis and Quercus ilex (source: del Castillo et al. 2013).
