Intra-annual raw basal area increments (early-wood and late-wood) of Pinus nigra subsp. laricio Poiret trees from southern Italy at the pines׳ mesic to xeric distribution range

Gianluigi Mazza; Dimitrios Sarris; Ugo Chiavetta; Rossana M Ferrara; Gianfranco Rana

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.08.095

Intra-annual raw basal area increments (early-wood and late-wood) of Pinus nigra subsp. laricio Poiret trees from southern Italy at the pines׳ mesic to xeric distribution range

Data Brief. 2018 Aug 29:20:683-685. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.08.095. eCollection 2018 Oct.

Authors

Gianluigi Mazza^{1

2}, Dimitrios Sarris^{3

4

5}, Ugo Chiavetta¹, Rossana M Ferrara², Gianfranco Rana²

Affiliations

¹ CREA Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, 52100 Arezzo, Italy.
² CREA Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment, 70125 Bari, Italy.
³ Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, Latsia, 2252 Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁵ School of Environmental Studies, KES College, 1055 Nicosia, Cyprus.

Abstract

This article contains tree rings data related to the research article entitled "An intra-stand approach to identify intra-annual growth responses to climate in Pinus nigra subsp. laricio Poiret trees from southern Italy" (Mazza et al., 2018). Most dendroclimatological studies on black pine have been conducted on the P. nigra subsp. nigra, while only few results on climate-growth relationships are available for other taxa such as P. nigra subsp. laricio, which has the narrowest distribution range of the collective species P. nigra. This data article provides tree rings data for the subsp. laricio at an intra-annual growth level, distinguishing early-wood (EW) and late-wood (LW), from an even aged forest stand from the Sila mountain area within the subspecies mesic to xeric distribution range.