Title |
Olive Tree-Ring Problematic Dating: A Comparative Analysis on Santorini (Greece)
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2013
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0054730 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Paolo Cherubini, Turi Humbel, Hans Beeckman, Holger Gärtner, David Mannes, Charlotte Pearson, Werner Schoch, Roberto Tognetti, Simcha Lev-Yadun |
Abstract |
Olive trees are a classic component of Mediterranean environments and some of them are known historically to be very old. In order to evaluate the possibility to use olive tree-rings for dendrochronology, we examined by various methods the reliability of olive tree-rings identification. Dendrochronological analyses of olive trees growing on the Aegean island Santorini (Greece) show that the determination of the number of tree-rings is impossible because of intra-annual wood density fluctuations, variability in tree-ring boundary structure, and restriction of its cambial activity to shifting sectors of the circumference, causing the tree-ring sequences along radii of the same cross section to differ. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | 29% |
Greece | 2 | 29% |
Canada | 1 | 14% |
Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
Scientists | 3 | 43% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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India | 1 | 1% |
France | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 84 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 22 | 26% |
Student > Master | 13 | 15% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 12% |
Professor | 6 | 7% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 7% |
Other | 19 | 22% |
Unknown | 10 | 12% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 29 | 34% |
Environmental Science | 14 | 16% |
Earth and Planetary Sciences | 8 | 9% |
Arts and Humanities | 7 | 8% |
Engineering | 3 | 3% |
Other | 10 | 12% |
Unknown | 15 | 17% |