AFRICAN BAOBABS WITH A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF STEMS AND FALSE STEMS: RADIOCARBON INVESTIGATION OF THE BAOBAB OF WARANG
| dc.contributor.author | Adrian PATRUT | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sébastien GARNAUD | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oumar KA | |
| dc.contributor.author | Roxana T. PATRUT | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tomas DIAGNE | |
| dc.contributor.author | Daniel A. LOWY | |
| dc.contributor.author | Edit FORIZS | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jenő BODIS | |
| dc.contributor.author | Karl F. von REDEN | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-17T10:15:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-03-30 | |
| dc.description | STUDIA UBB CHEMIA, LXII, 1, 2017 (p. 111-120), DOI:10.24193/subbchem.2017.1.09 Adrian PATRUT Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University; Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania *Corresponding author: apatrut@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9862-6735 Sébastien GARNAUD Institut pour l’Etude et la Conservation du Baobab (INECOBA), Aulnay-sous-Bois, France, president@inecoba.fr https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0039-624X Oumar KA Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, oumar.ka@ucad.edu.sn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5654-2605 Roxana T. PATRUT Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, roxana.patrut@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8691-2160 Tomas DIAGNE African Chelonian Institute, Mbour, Senegal Daniel A. LOWY Valor Hungariae, Department of Science and Innovation, Budapest, Hungary https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2210-6757 Edit FORIZS Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University; Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, edit.forizs@ubbcluj.ro Jenő BODIS Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University; Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, jeno.bodis@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7080-124X Karl F. von REDEN Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, NOSAMS Facility, Woods Hole, USA, kvonreden@whoi.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6413-9018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The article presents the AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) radiocarbon dating results of the baobab of Warang, Senegal. The investigation of the baobab revealed that it consists of 18 partially fused stems, which represents the largest number of stems reported for an African baobab. Three stems build the ring that closes a false cavity, while 15 stems grow outside the ring. Seven wood samples were collected from the false cavity and from the outer part of other stems. The dating results evinced that the stems belong to four different generations, out of which the first generation is around 500 years old. We also documented the presence of false stems, which emerge from a large adjacent stem, are triangular in horizontal section and act as an anchor. The baobab of Warang possesses 12 ordinary stems and 6 false stems. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Authors thank The Ministry of Environment and of Nature Protection of Senegal and its Direction of National Parks for authorising the investigation and sampling of the baobab of Warang. The research was funded by the Romanian Ministry of National Education CNCS-UEFISCDI under grant PN-II-ID-PCE-2013-76. | |
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| dc.identifier.issn | 1224-7154 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | (online): 2065-9520 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dspace.chem.ubbcluj.ro:4000/handle/20.500.14637/42 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | STUDIA UBB CHEMIA. Published by Babeş-Bolyai University | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | STUDIA UBB CHEMIA, LXII, 1, 2017 (p. 111-120), DOI:10.24193/subbchem.2017.1.09 | |
| dc.subject | AMS radiocarbon dating | |
| dc.subject | Adansonia digitata | |
| dc.subject | tropical trees | |
| dc.subject | multiple stems | |
| dc.subject | age determination | |
| dc.subject | inner cavity | |
| dc.title | AFRICAN BAOBABS WITH A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF STEMS AND FALSE STEMS: RADIOCARBON INVESTIGATION OF THE BAOBAB OF WARANG | |
| dc.type | Article |