TY - JOUR T1 - Tree-Ring Growth Response of Common Ash ( Fraxinus excelsior L.) to Climatic Variables Using Multiple Regressions TT - واکنش رشد حلقه های رویشی زبان گنجشک (Fraxinus excelsior L.)به متغیرهای اقلیمی در شمال ایران با استفاده از رگرسیون چندگانه JF - JCPP JO - JCPP VL - 11 IS - 42 UR - http://jcpp.iut.ac.ir/article-1-812-en.html Y1 - 2008 SP - 597 EP - 609 KW - Common Ash KW - Growth Response KW - Multiple Regression KW - Climatic Variations KW - Tree-Ring. N2 -   This study was down in Forest Park of Noor. In order to determination of tree ring response to climatic variations, 35 cores were taken from dominant natural stand of common ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.). The guide of this study was finding which climatic variables are effective in the ring width growth of ash in current growing year and previous years (one, two and three years before current growing year) by multiple regression models at the North of IR-Iran. Totally, 85 annually, monthly seasons and seasonal growth climatic variations of precipitation, temperature, heat index, evapotranspiration and water balance were analyzed. The best multiple regression models were explained 83 percent of total variance of the growth of common ash. The results show that the growth of common ash was related to the previous year's climatic variations than that of the current year. The most effective role of climatic variations was due to the first and second preceding years (55%). Evapotranspiration of July and September, and precipitation of May in the second and precipitation of March in the third previous years, all were positively affected the growth of this species. This study revealed that ash is interested in warmer condition on early and middle of seasonal growth in present of available humid, and precipitation in the months of early growing season (Ordibehesht-Khordad of two previous years). M3 ER -