Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Loader, NJ
• Young, GHF
• McCarroll, D
• Wilson, RJS

Titel

Quantifying uncertainty in isotope dendroclimatology

Ist Teil von

• Holocene (Sevenoaks), 2013-09, Vol.23 (9), p.1221-1226

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To maximise the potential of the tree-ring isotopic signal for palaeoclimate research it is essential to understand and characterise the natural variability between individual trees. This study explores the nature of inter-tree isotopic variability and evaluates the implications for developing robust palaeoclimate reconstructions. We confirm levels of natural inter-tree variability similar to those reported in previous studies, but demonstrate, using a large data set of isotopic measurements determined from individual rings of 100 trees, that to obtain a representative regional environmental signal and to reduce problems when combining records, higher levels of replication than those typically adopted in isotope dendroclimatology may need to be considered.