植物生态学报 ›› 2010, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (6): 628-641.DOI: 10.3773/j.issn.1005-264x.2010.06.002

• 研究论文 • 上一篇    下一篇

利用树木年轮宽度资料重建川西卧龙地区过去159年夏季温度的变化

李宗善1, 刘国华1,*(), 张齐兵2, 胡婵娟1, 罗淑政1, 刘兴良3, 何飞3   

  1. 1中国科学院生态环境研究中心城市与区域生态国家重点实验室, 北京 100085
    2中国科学院植物研究所植被与环境变化国家重点实验室, 北京 100093
    3四川省林业科学研究院生态研究所, 成都 610081
  • 收稿日期:2010-01-11 接受日期:2010-03-16 出版日期:2010-01-11 发布日期:2010-06-01
  • 通讯作者: 刘国华
  • 作者简介:* E-mail: ghliu@rcees.ac.cn

Tree ring reconstruction of summer temperature variations over the past 159 years in Wolong National Natural Reserve, western Sichuan, China

LI Zong-Shan1, LIU Guo-Hua1,*(), ZHANG Qi-Bing2, HU Chan-Juan1, LUO Shu-Zheng1, LIU Xing-Liang3, HE Fei3   

  1. 1State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
    2State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
    3Institute of Ecology, Sichuan Forestry Research Academy, Chengdu 610081, China
  • Received:2010-01-11 Accepted:2010-03-16 Online:2010-01-11 Published:2010-06-01
  • Contact: LIU Guo-Hua

摘要:

根据川西卧龙地区林线位置岷江冷杉(Abies faxoniana)的年轮宽度资料, 分析了该地区树木年轮宽度与气候要素的关系, 并重建了该地区1850年以来夏季(6-8月份)温度的变化历史。结果表明: 川西卧龙地区在过去159年来的温度变化上, 最为明显的特征是20世纪40年代以来的显著变暖趋势, 而在20世纪40年代以前的温度明显偏低, 主要的低温时期在1850-1870年和1890-1930年。该温度序列的冷暖期与附近地区的冰芯、冰川进退资料, 以及对于夏季温度响应敏感的树轮年表都有着较好的对应关系, 这表明重建序列记录了可靠的区域尺度的温度信号。对重建温度序列的小波分析表明, 较为明显的有2-8年和10-16年的周期, 而这些周期可能与厄尔尼诺-南方涛动气候系统和太阳活动周期有一定的关系。

关键词: 温度重建, 树木年轮, 川西地区, 卧龙国家级自然保护区

Abstract:

Aims Improved understanding of tree growth responses to climate is needed to model and predict forest ecosystem responses to current and future climatic variability. Coniferous forests in Wolong National Natural Reserve occupy broad elevational ranges with varied geology and topography and thus have great potential for dendroclimatological studies. However, little is known about the growth-climate relationships in this region compared with the nearby Tibetan Plateau. Our objective was to determine the main climate responses in diameter growth and examine the regional climate variability within this ecological complex area.

Methods We used standardized dendroecological methods to study the effects of climatic variability on radial growth of a subalpine conifer, Abies faxoniana, which is the dominant and economically most important tree species in this region. We sampled 58 stands of A. faxoniana in a treeline site (3 450 m) and extracted increment cores for radial growth analyses. Several statistics were used to identify common patterns of interannual growth variability, and correlation and regression analyses were used to identify climatic factors associated with that variability.

Important findings The main limiting factor for tree growth was temperature in summer (June to August), followed by temperature in early spring (March), relative humidity from June to September of the current year and precipitation in October of the prior year. The summer (June to August) temperature reconstruction, spanning A.D. 1850-2008, was verified with independent data and accounted for 28.8% of the actual temperature variance during the period in common period (1955-2008). The most obvious characteristic of the reconstructed temperature was a significant warming trend after the 1940s. Before the 1940s, the climate of this region was consistent cold, with cold intervals in the 1850s-1870s and the 1890s-1930s. Because the low-frequency variation of the reconstruction agreed with previously published tree-ring proxies (ice cores of nearby glaciers), it appears that our reconstructed series was reliable and could aid in the evaluation of regional climate signal. Wavelet spectral analysis indicated the existence of some decadal (10-16 years) and interannual (2-8 years) cycles, which probably are ascribed to solar variability and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), respectively.

Key words: temperature reconstruction, tree ring, western Sichuan, Wolong National Natural Reserve