Abstracts are presented for 34 oral presentations and 83 posters from 4 sessions: forest and wood utilization; dendroclimatology; forest growth, dynamics and protection against mass movement; and wood formation and anatomy.

This proceedings contains seven papers dealing with prehistoric wood utilization. Topics covered include: (i) dendrochronological analysis and dating of wooden artefacts in Austria and Netherlands; high-frequency reconstruction of mid-summer temperature from annual height increment of Scots pine (...

Climatically controlled allocation to reproduction is a key mechanism by which climate influences tree growth and may explain lagged correlations between climate and growth. We used continent-wide datasets of tree-ring chronologies and annual reproductive effort in Fagus sylvatica from 1901 to 2015 ...

Annual height increments of 35 Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees from the northern timberline (68°30′N, 27°30′E, 220 m a.s.l., Laanila, North Finland) and monthly climate data from two meteorological stations, Sodankylä (from 1908 to present) and Ivalo (from 1958 to present) were used in...

Fluctuations in sulphur (S) content in tree rings were analysed for a 93 years long period (1915-2007) by laser ablation system coupled to an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer from three Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) trees grown in the Rachitis Cirque, Calimani Mts, Eastern...

A network of 41 local tree-ring chronologies of oak (Quercus petraea and Quercus robur) in Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia (latitudes 45.00-48.00N, longitudes 13.14-21.63E, altitudes 80-800 m a.s.l.) was constructed and used to establish common climatic signals in oak tree rings in...

We present the local tree-ring chronology of pedunculate oak (Qercus robur) from Kobiljak near Zagreb, Croatia (16°09′ E, 45°49′ N, 140 m a.s.l.). The chronology is based on 17 trees and is 127 years long and covers the period of 1883-2009. The well replicated part of the residual version of the...

The prehistoric salt mine of Hallstatt together with its burial ground is one of the most prominent archaeological sites in the world, and has given its name to the "Hallstatt period", an epoch of European prehistory (800 to 400 BCE). Due to the perfect conservation in rock salt a high number of...

Climate influences tree-ring density and ring-density variables extracted from X-ray images have been widely used for climate reconstructions. The R package xRing was developed to identify and measure tree rings on X-ray microdensity profiles automatically. This package is available for free and it ...

A stable carbon isotope chronology was constructed in the area of Austrian Alps. Schwarzensee multi-century long chronology covers the period 200-2000 CE. The chronology has many features that predispose it to palaeoclimate reconstruction. The best relationship with weather parameters was found in...