Climatic effects on radial growth of major tree species on Changbai Mountain

Table 1 Sites,-species and descriptive statistics for the 15 standard tree-ring chronologies along an altitudinal gradient on Changbai Mountain

Site no.	Tree species	Site–species	Elev. (m asl)	Core/stem	Mean age	Mean width (mm) (SD)	MS	SD	rbar	EPS > 0.85 since	PC1	EPS
1	PNK	PNK1	750	47/30	133	1.98 (0.67)	0.165	0.179	0.476	1802	47.13	0.93
1	FM	FM1	750	40/20	–	0.93 (0.37)	0.105	0.202	0.582	1763	38.03	0.92
2	AN	AN2	900	42/28	96.1	1.79 (0.58)	0.13	0.174	0.423	1901	30.46	0.94
2	PCK	PCK2	900	32/18	144	1.62 (0.66)	0.133	0.178	0.577	1867	38.32	0.89
3	PNK	PNK3	1,200	37/19	159	1.57 (0.38)	0.141	0.186	0.553	1787	35.47	0.94
3	PCK	PCK3	1,200	42/23	91	1.39 (0.61)	0.141	0.335	0.548	1900	44.29	0.94
3	LO	LO3	1,200	50/28	156	1.09 (0.26)	0.164	0.228	0.581	1887	40.16	0.93
4	PNK	PNK4	1,400	40/21	147	1.42 (0.40)	0.119	0.166	0.607	1792	42.26	0.91
4	AN	AN4	1,400	32/19	98	1.43 (0.38)	0.136	0.131	0.49	1896	31.65	0.93
4	PCK	PCK4	1,400	42/21	161	1.16 (0.48)	0.146	0.176	0.569	1865	46.28	0.94
5	PCK	PCK5	1,600	53/30	195	0.98 (0.40)	0.162	0.172	0.652	1823	38.82	0.97
6	AN	AN5	1,800	29/18	88	1.37 (0.51)	0.146	0.228	0.613	1901	34.89	0.93
6	PCK	PCK6	1,800	35/17	156	1.07 (0.43)	0.17	0.209	0.654	1813	42.16	0.89
7	LO	LO7	2,000	30/14	171	0.69 (0.25)	0.232	0.282	0.491	1826	52.32	0.89
7	BM	BM7	2,000	58/30	167	0.51 (0.23)	0.231	0.238	0.356	1806	35.7	0.92

PNK, Pinus koraiensis; FM, Fraximus mandshurica; AN, Abies nephrolepis; PCK, Picea koraiensis; LO, Larix olgensis; BM, Betula ermanii
Elev elevation, MS mean sensitivity, SD standard deviation, rbar mean interseries correlation, eps expressed population signal, PC1 first principal component

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