Hello together!
I have some time-series for tree-rings from dating from 1850-2016 and diameter at breast height (DBH) from 1996-2022 for the same plot, however the sampled trees for tree-rings and DBH do not overlap. I want to build 1 time-series (in basal area increments e.g.) for the whole plot, so at stand level, covering the complete time-span from 1850-2022. Is this possible to do, did anyone of you do this before?
Best
Alexander
It's not possible since 1850 to 2016 is too big a time span to have missing data :)
How close is the correspondence between the two datasets for the 10-year period where they overlap?
I guess if you've got a relatively homogenous stand, you know something about its history, and the 1996-2016 increments from the tree rings match up OK with the 1996-2016 DBH data (even if the individual trees are not the same)... seems like you could at least try to make an argument for the extended time series, depending on what you want to try to show.
Is there a reason you couldn't also go core some of the 1996-2022 trees where currently you only have DBH?
Good luck!
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