TY  - JOUR
AU  - Smiljanić, Marko
AU  - Seo, Jeong-Wook
AU  - Laeaednelaid, Alar
AU  - Van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marieke
AU  - Stajić, Branko
AU  - Wilmking, Martin
PY  - 2014
UR  - https://omorika.sfb.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/618
AB  - Dendrochronological investigations of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L) growing on Mannikjarve peatland in central Estonia showed that annual tree growth of peatland pines can be used as a proxy for past variations of water table levels. Reconstruction of past water table levels can help us to better understand the dynamics of various ecological processes in peatlands, e.g. the formation of vegetation patterns or carbon and nitrogen cycling. Mannikjarve bog has one of the longest water table records in the boreal zone, continuously monitored since 1956. Common uncertainties encountered while working with peatland trees (e.g. narrow, missing and wedging rings) were in our case exacerbated with difficulties related to the instability of the relationship between tree growth and peatland environment. We hypothesized that the instable relationship was mainly due to a significant change of the limiting factor, i.e. the rise of the water table level due to human activity. To test our hypothesis we had to use several novel methods of tree-ring chronology analysis as well as to test explicitly whether undetected missing rings biased our results. Since the hypothesis that the instable relationship between tree growth and environment was caused by a change in limiting factor could not be rejected, we proceeded to find possible significant changes of past water table levels using structural analysis of the tree-ring chronologies. Our main conclusions were that peatland pines can be proxies to water table levels and that there were several shifting periods of high and low water table levels in the past 200 years.
PB  - Elsevier
T2  - Science of the Total Environment
T1  - Peatland pines as a proxy for water table fluctuations: Disentangling tree growth, hydrology and possible human influence
EP  - 63
SP  - 52
VL  - 500-501
DO  - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.056
UR  - conv_2166
ER  - 

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author = "Smiljanić, Marko and Seo, Jeong-Wook and Laeaednelaid, Alar and Van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marieke and Stajić, Branko and Wilmking, Martin",
year = "2014",
abstract = "Dendrochronological investigations of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L) growing on Mannikjarve peatland in central Estonia showed that annual tree growth of peatland pines can be used as a proxy for past variations of water table levels. Reconstruction of past water table levels can help us to better understand the dynamics of various ecological processes in peatlands, e.g. the formation of vegetation patterns or carbon and nitrogen cycling. Mannikjarve bog has one of the longest water table records in the boreal zone, continuously monitored since 1956. Common uncertainties encountered while working with peatland trees (e.g. narrow, missing and wedging rings) were in our case exacerbated with difficulties related to the instability of the relationship between tree growth and peatland environment. We hypothesized that the instable relationship was mainly due to a significant change of the limiting factor, i.e. the rise of the water table level due to human activity. To test our hypothesis we had to use several novel methods of tree-ring chronology analysis as well as to test explicitly whether undetected missing rings biased our results. Since the hypothesis that the instable relationship between tree growth and environment was caused by a change in limiting factor could not be rejected, we proceeded to find possible significant changes of past water table levels using structural analysis of the tree-ring chronologies. Our main conclusions were that peatland pines can be proxies to water table levels and that there were several shifting periods of high and low water table levels in the past 200 years.",
publisher = "Elsevier",
journal = "Science of the Total Environment",
title = "Peatland pines as a proxy for water table fluctuations: Disentangling tree growth, hydrology and possible human influence",
pages = "63-52",
volume = "500-501",
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Smiljanić, M., Seo, J., Laeaednelaid, A., Van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Stajić, B.,& Wilmking, M.. (2014). Peatland pines as a proxy for water table fluctuations: Disentangling tree growth, hydrology and possible human influence. in Science of the Total Environment
Elsevier., 500-501, 52-63.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.056
conv_2166

Smiljanić M, Seo J, Laeaednelaid A, Van der Maaten-Theunissen M, Stajić B, Wilmking M. Peatland pines as a proxy for water table fluctuations: Disentangling tree growth, hydrology and possible human influence. in Science of the Total Environment. 2014;500-501:52-63.
doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.056
conv_2166 .

Smiljanić, Marko, Seo, Jeong-Wook, Laeaednelaid, Alar, Van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marieke, Stajić, Branko, Wilmking, Martin, "Peatland pines as a proxy for water table fluctuations: Disentangling tree growth, hydrology and possible human influence" in Science of the Total Environment, 500-501 (2014):52-63,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.056 .,
conv_2166 .