George LaRoi Forest Plot BEPA, Canada - CANA558 Additional Site Information Joseph Birch NOTES: Chronologies of four co-occurring tree species within a long-term forest plot at the southern ecotone of the Canadian boreal forest. The naming format for each species' cores is as follows: Picea glauca (GLP01A), Betula papyrifera (GLB01A), Pinus banksiana (GLJ01A), Populus tremuloides (GLA01A). Keywords: ecotone,gymnosperm,angiosperm Reference: Joseph D. Birch, James A. Lutz, E. H. Hogg, Suzanne W. Simard, Rick Pelletier, George H. LaRoi, Justine Karst. 2019. Decline of an ecotone forest: 50 years of demography in the southern boreal forest. Ecosphere, Vol. 10, Issue 4. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2698 Funding Sources: Alberta Conservation Association, NSERC COFECHA output: Chronology file name : CANA558.CRN Measurement file name : CANA558.RWL Date checked : 15MAY19 Checked by : B. Bauer Beginning year : 1926 Ending year : 2017 Principal investigators: Joseph Birch Site name : George LaRoi Forest Plot Site location : Canada Species information : BEPA PAPER BIRCH Latitude : 5324 Longitude : -11345 Elevation : 712M Series intercorrelation: 0.777 Avg mean sensitivity : 0.471 Avg standard deviation : 0.789 Avg autocorrelation : 0.669 Number dated series : 17 Segment length tested : 50 Number problem segments: 0 Pct problem segments : 0.00 PART 5: CORRELATION OF SERIES BY SEGMENTS: GLR BEPA 16:00 Wed 15 May 2019 Page 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Correlations of 50-year dated segments, lagged 25 years Flags: A = correlation under .3281 but highest as dated; B = correlation higher at other than dated position Seq Series Time_span 1925 1950 1975 1974 1999 2024 --- -------- --------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- 1 GLB01A 1943 2017 .92 .87 .87 2 GLB02A 1933 2000 .76 .80 .78 3 GLB02B 1936 2006 .84 .83 .84 4 GLB03A 1926 2017 .74 .83 .85 5 GLB03B 1928 2016 .73 .84 .87 6 GLB04A 1939 2017 .64 .58 .62 7 GLB04B 1932 2017 .78 .76 .79 8 GLB05A 1931 2017 .80 .81 .83 9 GLB05B 1930 2017 .80 .79 .81 10 GLB06A 1936 2017 .74 .72 .79 11 GLB06B 1933 2017 .76 .81 .87 12 GLB07A 1935 2017 .68 .79 .78 13 GLB07B 1930 2017 .78 .84 .68 14 GLB08A 1931 2016 .88 .85 .86 15 GLB08B 1933 2016 .89 .90 .90 16 GLB09A 1951 2017 .66 .70 17 GLB09B 1951 2017 .66 .70 Av segment correlation .78 .78 .80 PART 7: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: GLR BEPA 16:00 Wed 15 May 2019 Page 8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corr //-------- Unfiltered --------\\ //---- Filtered -----\\ No. No. No. with Mean Max Std Auto Mean Max Std Auto AR Seq Series Interval Years Segmt Flags Master msmt msmt dev corr sens value dev corr () --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- 1 GLB01A 1943 2017 75 3 0 .891 1.78 3.01 .751 .375 .428 2.53 .566 -.003 2 2 GLB02A 1933 2000 68 3 0 .719 1.62 5.35 1.011 .665 .452 2.36 .368 -.017 3 3 GLB02B 1936 2006 71 3 0 .844 1.30 3.13 .701 .544 .462 2.54 .441 .025 1 4 GLB03A 1926 2017 92 3 0 .791 1.53 4.46 .991 .690 .498 2.66 .548 -.011 2 5 GLB03B 1928 2016 89 3 0 .793 1.53 4.40 .999 .706 .474 2.63 .544 -.070 2 6 GLB04A 1939 2017 79 3 0 .649 1.29 3.02 .610 .640 .393 2.47 .452 .029 1 7 GLB04B 1932 2017 86 3 0 .786 1.32 2.69 .592 .662 .337 2.56 .502 -.025 1 8 GLB05A 1931 2017 87 3 0 .793 1.40 4.18 1.152 .738 .601 2.57 .490 -.076 2 9 GLB05B 1930 2017 88 3 0 .801 1.39 3.92 1.080 .733 .603 2.71 .506 .011 1 10 GLB06A 1936 2017 82 3 0 .757 1.41 3.61 .799 .809 .367 2.59 .452 .073 1 11 GLB06B 1933 2017 85 3 0 .814 1.45 3.16 .668 .670 .357 2.56 .543 -.045 3 12 GLB07A 1935 2017 83 3 0 .702 .88 3.65 .693 .690 .565 2.63 .478 -.002 1 13 GLB07B 1930 2017 88 3 0 .707 .79 2.74 .622 .638 .612 2.68 .415 -.058 2 14 GLB08A 1931 2016 86 3 0 .865 1.08 3.01 .759 .676 .480 2.68 .503 -.029 1 15 GLB08B 1933 2016 84 3 0 .886 1.14 2.74 .667 .706 .414 2.59 .476 -.034 1 16 GLB09A 1951 2017 67 2 0 .688 1.03 2.34 .636 .651 .443 2.62 .500 -.060 2 17 GLB09B 1951 2017 67 2 0 .682 .89 2.14 .581 .727 .486 2.74 .523 -.072 2 --- -------- --------- ----- ----- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -- Total or mean: 1377 49 0 .777 1.29 5.35 .789 .669 .471 2.74 .490 -.021