Comparison of Urban-Rural Tree Growth Response to Climate in the Eastern U.S. for the years 1990-2014

Climate is an important driver of tree growth in forests of the eastern U.S. Urbanization can augment the growing conditions of trees in ways that could change the sensitivity of radial growth to climate stressors such as excessive heat and water stress. This dataset include tree ring chronologies (1990-2014) in the form of basal area increment for canopy oak and maples trees from paired urban and nearby rural reference forest sites in Baltimore, Maryland, New York City, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts. Also included are metrics of heat stress and water stress from 1990-2014.

气候是美国东部森林树木生长的重要驱动因子。城市化可通过改变树木径向生长对极端高温、水分胁迫等气候胁迫因子的敏感性，改善树木的生长条件。本数据集涵盖1990-2014年的树木年轮年表（tree ring chronologies），数据以冠层橡树与槭树（枫树）的断面积增量（basal area increment）形式呈现，来源于马里兰州巴尔的摩市、纽约州纽约市以及马萨诸塞州波士顿市的成对城市及邻近乡村对照森林样地。此外，数据集还包含1990-2014年的高温胁迫与水分胁迫指标。