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Revision as of 15:51, 16 May 2009
Björbo is a rural village in Dalarna in Sweden. It is located in Floda parish, Dalarna and the Municipality of Gagnef. It is located at the river Västerdalälven. The surroundings are mainly forrest of Western taiga type, dominated by Pine Pinus sylvestris and Spruce Picea abies and some hardwoods not useful for dendrochronology, mainly birch (Betula sp.). Altitudes are in the range between about 200 meters up to 450 meters. There are also rater big bog areas of Sphagnum type with sparsely pine. One of them are Petmyra.
In the village and around are a lot of various timber buildings mainly from 18'th and 19'th century. There are rater easy to find living pine trees up to about 250 years age, but rarely older (spruses rarely above 150 years). In the buildings mainly pine wood are used, but also spruce is found less frequent.
Dendrochronological referenses from Björbo area
- ITRDB swed305 (PISY (1450-2002) by Torbjörn Axelson
- ITRDB swed313 PCAB (1574-2005)) by Torbjörn Axelson
- petmyra.rwl Bog pines from Petmyra (1690-2002) by T. Axelson. (low correlation values towards normal pines).