Oak and Scots Pine Tree Ring Width Series from Southern England

Tree ring width series collected from increment cores of oak trees in the New Forest, Thetford Forest, and Peninsula regions of southern England. The data were gathered to investigate differences in growth and responses to climate in oak trees across these regions, as part of the EU-funded MULTIFOR project. The dataset includes 30 sites with geographic coordinates, covering both pure oak stands and mixed stands with Scots pine.

Use Cases

• Modeling climate-growth relationships based on tree ring width series.
• Comparing growth patterns between pure oak and mixed oak-pine stands.
• Analyzing spatial variation in tree growth across three distinct forest regions in southern England.
• Conducting dendrochronological studies for forest management and conservation planning.

Strengths

• Data includes 30 distinct geographic sites with latitude and longitude coordinates.
• Covers three specific forest regions: Thetford Forest, New Forest, and Peninsula.
• Explicitly identifies 8 sites as intimate mixtures of oak and Scots pine for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and temporal coverage of the tree ring series are unknown.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

MULTIFOR project financed by the Forestry Commission and the European Union (ERDF).

Collection Method

Tree ring width series collected from increment cores taken from oak trees in managed forests.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Thetford Forest, New Forest, and Peninsula (Somerset, Devon, Cornwall) regions in southern England.