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. 2020 Jan 2;7(1):1.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-019-0340-y.

The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe

Elisabet Martínez-Sancho  1 , Lenka Slámová  2 , Sandro Morganti  2 , Claudio Grefen  3 , Barbara Carvalho  4 , Benjamin Dauphin  2 , Christian Rellstab  2 , Felix Gugerli  2 , Lars Opgenoorth  3 , Katrin Heer  3 , Florian Knutzen  5 , Georg von Arx  2 , Fernando Valladares  4 , Stephen Cavers  6 , Bruno Fady  7 , Ricardo Alía  8 , Filippos Aravanopoulos  9 , Camilla Avanzi  10 , Francesca Bagnoli  10 , Evangelos Barbas  9 , Catherine Bastien  11 , Raquel Benavides  4 , Frédéric Bernier  12 , Guillaume Bodineau  11 , Cristina C Bastias  4 , Jean-Paul Charpentier  11 , José M Climent  8 , Marianne Corréard  7 , Florence Courdier  7 , Darius Danusevicius  13 , Anna-Maria Farsakoglou  9 , José M García Del Barrio  8 , Olivier Gilg  7 , Santiago C González-Martínez  12 , Alan Gray  6 , Christoph Hartleitner  14 , Agathe Hurel  12 , Arnaud Jouineau  7 , Katri Kärkkäinen  15 , Sonja T Kujala  15 , Mariaceleste Labriola  10 , Martin Lascoux  16 , Marlène Lefebvre  11 , Vincent Lejeune  11 , Grégoire Le-Provost  12 , Mirko Liesebach  17 , Ermioni Malliarou  9 , Nicolas Mariotte  7 , Silvia Matesanz  18 , Célia Michotey  19 , Pascal Milesi  20 , Tor Myking  21 , Eduardo Notivol  22 , Birte Pakull  17 , Andrea Piotti  10 , Christophe Plomion  12 , Mehdi Pringarbe  7 , Tanja Pyhäjärvi  23 , Annie Raffin  12 , José A Ramírez-Valiente  8 , Kurt Ramskogler  14 , Juan J Robledo-Arnuncio  8 , Outi Savolainen  23 , Silvio Schueler  24 , Vladimir Semerikov  25 , Ilaria Spanu  10 , Jean Thévenet  7 , Mari Mette Tollefsrud  18 , Norbert Turion  7 , Dominique Veisse  11 , Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin  10 , Marc Villar  11 , Johan Westin  26 , Patrick Fonti  2
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The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe

Elisabet Martínez-Sancho et al. Sci Data. .

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  • Author Correction: The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe.
    Martínez-Sancho E, Slámová L, Morganti S, Grefen C, Carvalho B, Dauphin B, Rellstab C, Gugerli F, Opgenoorth L, Heer K, Knutzen F, von Arx G, Valladares F, Cavers S, Fady B, Alía R, Aravanopoulos F, Avanzi C, Bagnoli F, Barbas E, Bastien C, Benavides R, Bernier F, Bodineau G, Bastias CC, Charpentier JP, Climent JM, Corréard M, Courdier F, Danusevicius D, Farsakoglou AM, García Del Barrio JM, Gilg O, González-Martínez SC, Gray A, Hartleitner C, Hurel A, Jouineau A, Kärkkäinen K, Kujala ST, Labriola M, Lascoux M, Lefebvre M, Lejeune V, Le-Provost G, Liesebach M, Malliarou E, Mariotte N, Matesanz S, Michotey C, Milesi P, Myking T, Notivol E, Pakull B, Piotti A, Plomion C, Pringarbe M, Pyhäjärvi T, Raffin A, Ramírez-Valiente JA, Ramskogler K, Robledo-Arnuncio JJ, Savolainen O, Schueler S, Semerikov V, Spanu I, Thévenet J, Tollefsrud MM, Turion N, Veisse D, Vendramin GG, Villar M, Westin J, Fonti P. Martínez-Sancho E, et al. Sci Data. 2020 Apr 2;7(1):114. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-0447-1. Sci Data. 2020. PMID: 32242054 Free PMC article.

Abstract

The dataset presented here was collected by the GenTree project (EU-Horizon 2020), which aims to improve the use of forest genetic resources across Europe by better understanding how trees adapt to their local environment. This dataset of individual tree-core characteristics including ring-width series and whole-core wood density was collected for seven ecologically and economically important European tree species: silver birch (Betula pendula), European beech (Fagus sylvatica), Norway spruce (Picea abies), European black poplar (Populus nigra), maritime pine (Pinus pinaster), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), and sessile oak (Quercus petraea). Tree-ring width measurements were obtained from 3600 trees in 142 populations and whole-core wood density was measured for 3098 trees in 125 populations. This dataset covers most of the geographical and climatic range occupied by the selected species. The potential use of it will be highly valuable for assessing ecological and evolutionary responses to environmental conditions as well as for model development and parameterization, to predict adaptability under climate change scenarios.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Natural distributions of the seven selected tree species and the geographical location of each study site from which tree-ring width measurements were obtained (142 sites in total). Distribution maps were obtained from EUFORGEN (www.euforgen.org).
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Fig. 2
Climate-space diagrams for each species based on annual mean temperature and annual precipitation. Grey points represent species occurrences from across their total climate-space and red points show the climatic position of the selected study sites from which tree-ring measurements were obtained.
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Fig. 3
Mean density and mean series length for each tree species and site. Vertical dashed black lines indicated the reference mean wood density values.
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