The GenTree Dendroecological Collection, tree-ring and wood density data from seven tree species across Europe
Elisabet Martínez‐Sancho, Lenka Slámová, Sandro Morganti, Claudio Grefen, Bárbara Carvalho, Benjamin Dauphin, Christian Rellstab, Félix Gugerli, Lars Opgenoorth, Katrin Heer, Florian Knutzen, Georg von Arx, Fernando Valladares, Stephen Cavers, Bruno Fady, Ricardo Alı́a, Filippos A. Aravanopoulos, Camilla Avanzi, Francesca Bagnoli, Evangelos Barbas, Catherine Bastien, Raquel Benavides, Frédéric Bernier, Guillaume Bodineau, Cristina C. Bastías, Jean-Paul Charpentier, José Climent, Marianne Corréard, Florence Courdier, Darius Danusevičius, Anna‐Maria Farsakoglou, José M. García del Barrio, Olivier Gilg, Santiago C. González‐Martínez, Alan Gray, Christoph Hartleitner, Agathe Hurel, Arnaud Jouineau, Katri Kärkkäinen, Sonja T. Kujala, Mariaceleste Labriola, Martin Lascoux, Marlène Lefebvre, Vincent Lejeune, Grégoire Le-Provost, Mirko Liesebach, Ermioni Malliarou, Nicolas Mariotte, Silvia Matesanz, Célia Michotey, Pascal Milesi, Tor Myking, Eduardo Notivol, Birte Pakull, Andrea Piotti, Christophe Plomion, Mehdi Pringarbe, Tanja Pyhäjärvi, Annie Raffin, José A. Ramírez-Valiente, Kurt Ramskogler, Juan José Robledo‐Arnuncio, Outi Savolainen, Silvio Schueler, В. Л. Семериков, Ilaria Spanu, Jean Thévenet, Mari Mette Tollefsrud, Norbert Turion, Dominique Veisse, Giovanni G. Vendramin, Marc Villar, Johan Westin, Patrick Fonti
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.