Abstract
In this review, we have focused on the following key points: (1) living trees in European Russia and their climatic sensitivity. Species suitable for tree-ring analyses, their age limits, spatial distribution of temperature- and drought-sensitive trees, and the available tree-ring chronologies. (2) Extension of the living-tree chronologies using archeological and architectural samples. Dendrochronological dating of archeological and cultural monuments. (3) Tree-ring-based climatic reconstructions in European Russia. European Russia drought atlas. (4) Climatic and environmental reconstructions in the Northern Caucasus. (5) Dendroecology. We also briefly summarized the problems and prospects of tree-ring research in European Russia.
Highlights
The first tree-ring study in the Russian Empire dates back to 1892 CE, when Shvedov (1892) suggested reconstructing the droughts in Odessa using Acacia sp. ring width
Most chronologies created for the territory of the European part of the Soviet Union and Russia (e.g., Bitvinskas, 1974; Molchanov, 1976; Lovelius, 1979; Chernavskaya et al, 1996; Pushin et al, 2000; Rumyantsev, 2010; etc.) were and still are usually published in Russian
Among rare exceptions is a data set collected along the northern tree line, submitted to the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), and used for the reconstructions of summer temperature in the sub-Arctic regions, including Northern Europe region which covered the north of European Russia, for 950–1960 CE (Schweingruber and Briffa, 1996; Briffa et al, 2001)
Summary
The first tree-ring study in the Russian Empire dates back to 1892 CE, when Shvedov (1892) suggested reconstructing the droughts in Odessa using Acacia sp. ring width. The one exception is the chronology based on the archeological and architectural wood from the Vologda region (from 1085 to 2020 CE), that was recently connected to living trees, revised, and verified by Karpukhin and Matskovsky (2014) It is the longest continuous chronology in the East European plain. Another long conifer chronology covering the period from 1183 CE was constructed from living pine and spruce trees and extended with wooden samples from the Solovetsky Monastery that was founded in 1436 CE (Solomina et al, 2011; Matskovsky et al, 2013). More drought-sensitive chronologies are required to better constrain and verify the model, especially in the early period of the reconstruction
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