Dendrochronological reconstruction of long-term precipitation patterns in Basaseachi National Park, Chihuahua, Mexico
| dc.creator | Christen M. Irby | |
| dc.creator | Peter Z. Fulé | |
| dc.creator | Larissa L. Yocom | |
| dc.creator | José Villanueva Díaz | |
| dc.date | 2013 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:40:33Z | |
| dc.description | The purpose of this study was to reconstruct the precipitation at Basaseachi National Park (BNP) in Chihuahua, Mexico.Tree-ring samples from pine species including Pinus durangensis, P. lumholtzii and P.engelmannii were collected in and near BNP and they were cross-dated with existing chronologies. Ring widths of each sample were measured and models to remove non-climatic trends from the data were applied. The relationship between precipitation from the weather station in Yécora, Sonora, and the ring width indices were modeled using a bivariate linear regression (r2 = 0,59, p<0.01). It was found that precipitation from the months of October, December, February and April was most highly correlated with tree ring growth. The reconstruction extends 225 years from 2007-1782. During this time period there were thirteen severe droughts, ten of which affected large areas in northern and central Mexico. KEY WORDS: Climate, dendrochronology, drought, Pinus, precipitation reconstruction. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | 1405-0471 | |
| dc.identifier | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61727444007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/468752 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Instituto de Ecología, A.C. | |
| dc.relation | http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=617 | |
| dc.rights | Madera y Bosques | |
| dc.source | Madera y Bosques (México) Num.1 Vol.19 | |
| dc.subject | Agrociencias | |
| dc.title | Dendrochronological reconstruction of long-term precipitation patterns in Basaseachi National Park, Chihuahua, Mexico | |
| dc.type | artículo científico |