This paper presents a commentary on a study that correlated the amount of ray parenchyma in tree rings of Juniperus thurifera to climate [see New Phytologist (2013) 198, 486-495].

Study finds unexplained decline in growth rate

New technique could help tackle illegal logging

Findings could help establish climate thresholds for tree survival

The northernmost tree species on Earth are growing faster as a result of climate change

Study shows lack of pine regeneration in a spanish forest occurred before evidence of climate change

The second of the two 'Landshut signatures' recorded from central European silver fir in dendrochronological curves for 1417-21 and 1458-62 [see FA 32, 1265] has been identified in Norway spruce wood artefacts from Trento, Italy, suggesting the possibility of further correlations with cisalpine...

Moraine systems of Glaciar Lengua (unofficial name) and neighbouring glaciers of Gran Campo Nevado (53°S) in the southernmost Andes were mapped and dated by dendrochronological means. They were formed around AD 1628, 1872/1875, 1886, 1902, 1912 and 1941 with the advance in the 1870s being calendar...

Other authors [e.g. P. Mikola in FA 24, 129] have indicated the special interest of tree-ring studies near the altitudinal or latitudinal tree lines; growth there is highly dependent on summer temperatures. Hitherto it has been difficult to reconstruct past temperature regimes from tree-ring data...

The intention of this research was to explore whether dendroclimatological relationships could be used to reconstruct long-term proxy records of 'Little Ice Age' glacier mass balance changes in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia. Tree-ring width chronologies from the Mt Waddington...