Dendrochronology

The Sundarbans World Heritage ecosystem provides valuable ecosystem goods and services to >7.5 million coastal people in South Asia. This sentinel mangrove ecosystem is threatened by historical anthropogenic disturbances, salinity intrusion and long-term environmental changes including sea level...

Forests on oceanic islands, such as the Azores archipelago, enable interesting dendroclimatic research, given their pronounced climatic gradients over short geographical distances, despite the less pronounced seasonality. The Lauraceae play an essential ecological role in Macaronesian natural...

Estimating long-term trends and short-term amplitudes requires reliable temperature (Temp) observations in the pre-industrial period when few in situ observations existed in the Arctic. Tree-ring materials are most available and used to reconstruct past Arctic Temp variations. However, most...

Alpine treeline ecosystems are generally expected to advance with increasing temperatures and after land-use abandonment. Multiple interacting factors modify this trend. Understanding the long-term processes underlying treeline advance is essential to predict future changes in structure and...

Since the 1950s, divergence problems have reduced the temporal stability of tree rings in response to climate, shaken the foundations of dendroclimatology, and affected the reliability of reconstructed models based on tree rings and the accuracy of historical climate series. Therefore, it is of...

Several thousand years ago, around 1500 B.C., one of the largest volcanic events in recorded history shook the world. The Minoan eruption of Thera,...

This is Document Série FORAFRI No. 15. It presents the results of diameter increment studies of ayous (Triplochiton scleroxylon) and sapele (Entandrophragma cylindricum). Measurements were made in natural forest plots in the Sangha Mbaere region of the Central African Republic. Results are compared...

Forests on oceanic islands, such as the Azores archipelago, enable interesting dendroclimatic research, given their pronounced climatic gradients over short geographical distances, despite the less pronounced seasonality. The Lauraceae play an essential ecological role in Macaronesian natural...