Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell

Daigard Ricardo Ortega Rodriguez; Raúl Sánchez-Salguero; Andrea Hevia; Daniela Granato-Souza; Bruno B.L. Cintra; Bruna Hornink; Laia Andreu-Hayles; Gabriel Assis-Pereira; Fidel A Roig; Mario Tomazello-Filho

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162064

Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell

Daigard Ricardo Ortega Rodriguez^*, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Andrea Hevia, Daniela Granato-Souza, Bruno B.L. Cintra, Bruna Hornink, Laia Andreu-Hayles, Gabriel Assis-Pereira, Fidel A Roig, Mario Tomazello-Filho

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Abstract

The analysis of climate variability and development of reconstructions based on tree-ring records in tropical forests have been increasing in recent decades. In the Amazon region, ring width and stable isotope long-term chronologies have been used for climatic studies, however little is known about the potential of wood traits such as density and chemical concentrations. In this study, we used well-dated rings of Cedrela fissilis Vell. from the drought-prone southern Amazon basin to assess the potential of using inter-annual variations of annually-resolved ring width, wood density, stable oxygen isotope (δ¹⁸OTR) measured in tree-ring cellulose and concentration of Sulfur (S_TR) and Calcium (Ca_TR) in xylem cells to study climate variability. During wet years, Cedrela fissilis produced wider and denser rings with higher Ca_TR and lower S_TR, as well as depleted δ¹⁸OTR values. During dry years, a wider range of responses was observed in growth, density and S_TR, while lower Ca_TR and enriched δ¹⁸OTR values were found. The annual centennial chronologies spanning from 1835 to 2018 showed good calibration skills for reconstructing local precipitation, evapotranspiration (P-PET), Amazon-wide rainfall, as well as climate modes related to sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies such as El Niño South Oscillation (ENSO), Tropical Northern Atlantic (TNA), and the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool (WHWP) oscillations. Ca_TR explained 42 % of the variance of local precipitation (1975–2018), RW explained 30 % of the P-PET variance (1975–2018), while δ¹⁸OTR explained 60 % and 57 % of the variance of Amazon rainfall (1960–2018) and El Niño 3.4 (1920–2018), respectively. Our results show that a multi-proxy tropical tree-ring approach can be used for high-reliable reconstructions of climate variability over Amazon basin at inter-annual and multidecadal time scales.

Original language	English
Article number	162064
Number of pages	15
Journal	Science of the Total Environment
Volume	871
Early online date	8 Feb 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162064
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2023

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Acknowledgements:
We thank the Wood Anatomy and Tree-Ring Laboratory (LAIM) (FAPESP project: 2009/53951-7), Department of Forest Sciences, Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ). This research was supported by the Post-Graduate Program of Forest Resources (ESALQ-USP, Brazil), and FAPESP grants 2020/04608-7, 2018/22914-8 and 2017/50085-3. RSS was supported by VULBOS project (UPO-1263216), VURECLIM (P20_00813) and AH by PinCaR project (UHU-1266324) both by FEDER Funds, Andalusia Regional Government, Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad 2014-2020. RSS and AH were also supported by EQC2018-004821-P and IE19_074 UPO projects cofunded by Spanish “Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020” and “Plan Andaluz de Invetigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (PAIDI 2020)”, respectively. GAP was supported by CAPES (grant # 88887.199858/2018-00) in the National Academic Cooperation Program in the Amazon. Additional thanks to the logging company AMATA for their assistance in the field work.

Keywords

Wood traits
Dendroclimatology
Dendrochemistry
Tropical forests
ENSO
SST

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Ortega Rodriguez, D. R., Sánchez-Salguero, R., Hevia, A., Granato-Souza, D., Cintra, B. B. L., Hornink, B., Andreu-Hayles, L., Assis-Pereira, G., Roig, F. A., & Tomazello-Filho, M. (2023). Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell. Science of the Total Environment, 871, Article 162064. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162064

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Climate variability of the southern Amazon inferred by a multi-proxy tree-ring approach using Cedrela fissilis Vell

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