White spruce tree-ring-width data in Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, 2007-2008

Cores were collected from living trees and cookies were cut from dead trees. Ring-width series were measured from all samples at the Carleton University Paleoecology Laboratory, and mean site chronologies were calculated for each site.

Climate-growth relations of each site were assessed. Regional growth patterns were compared against other white spruce chronologies from across northwestern North America to determine the larger-scale importance of tree-ring growth in Old Crow Flats. For more details refer to Porter, Trevor J. and Michael F.J. Pisaric, 2011, Temperature-growth divergence in white spruce forests of Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, and adjacent regions of northwestern North America.