Four new tree-ring chronologies from old black pine forests of Sandıras Mountain (Mugla, Turkey)

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Sandıras Mountain is located in southwest of Gölgeli Mountain, which lies parallel to border of Aegean and Mediterranean Regions, in Southwestern Anatolia. This mountainous area is one of the natural distribution areas of black pine (Pinus nigra Arn.) and has the oldest black pine communities in Turkey. Monumental black pine stands and the large number of individual monumental trees can be observed between the 1200 and 2000 m elevations of the mountain (especially north slope of the mountain). In this paper, we present preliminary results of a dendrochronological research on old black pine trees of Sandıras Mountain. Four new tree-ring chronologies were built from upper and lower elevations of south and north slopes of the mountain. The shortest and the longest chronologies were 241 and 820 years-long (obtained from upper elevation of the north slope), respectively. In this research, we record the most sensitive black pine trees (mean sensitivity value is 0.27) of Turkey from the north slope of Sandıras Mountain.

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Sandıras Mountain , dendrochronology , black pine , tree , ring , Mugla

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