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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of raw crossdated ring width series for the study species in each site; t-value BP: t-value Baillie Pilcher, GLK: Gleichläufigkeitskoeffizient

From: Climate forcing of tree growth in dry Afromontane forest fragments of Northern Ethiopia: evidence from multi-species responses

Variables

Mean statistical attributes (or ranges)

Hugumburda

Desa’a

J. procera

O. europaea

P. falcatus

J. procera

O. europaea

No. of trees sampled

38

10

20

36

14

No. of dated series

33

10

18

32

13

Average diameter (cm) (range)

20 (12–42)

13 (10–19)

21 (11–39)

23 (14–50)

22 (16–35)

Average age (years) (range)

43 (23–65)

36 (28–46)

35 (20–54)

54 (32–112)

76 (48–129)

Time span (years)

1949–2016

1969–2015

1963–2016

1905–2016

1888–2016

Average ring width (mm) (SD)

2.31 (0.54)

2.01 (0.36)

2.50 (0.58)

1.83 (0.57)

1.61 (0.20)

Average correlation with master

0.51

0.54

0.54

0.57

0.55

1st order autocorrelation (unfiltered)

0.04

0.11

0.11

0.20

0.14

Average mean sensitivity

0.63

0.52

0.52

0.55

0.43

Standard deviation (filtered)

0.64

0.66

0.66

0.64

0.59

Flagged segments (%)

4.11

10

5.71

1.74

0.0

t-value BP (SD)

5.64 (1.33)

7.62 (1.27)

6.87 (2.0)

7.7 (3.0)

10.8 (3.61)

GLK (SD, %)

95.5 (3.26)

98.3 (1.95)

94 (5.46)

93.7 (3.42)

94.1 (3.23)