This report describes an international summer course, "Tree Rings, Climate, Natural Resources, and Human Interaction", held in Cheriomushki, Russia, in the summer of 2018. The course was attended by 12 participants from six countries (Belgium, India, Lebanon, Poland, Russia, and South Africa) and...

Toona ciliata is a commercially and ecologically important timber species, which grows at faster rate and partake in socio-economic upliftment of forest dwelling communities. Understanding growth patterns is critical for developing effective silviculture and forest management strategies for any...

The growth response of earlywood and latewood to precipitation in chir pine (Pinus roxburghii) was studied by examining a series of core samples from the Garhwal Himalaya, India. Earlywood and latewood were observed to contribute about equal proportions towards the total ring width. Comparison of...

The recent decade has witnessed considerable progress in the number of tree-ring studies using the tropical conifer taxa, Pinus kesiya. Several tree-ring networks have been established in less explored regions in Northeast India, Southwest China and Vietnam. The seasonal climate response of P....

Ecologically Himalayan blue pine (Pinus wallichiana A. B. Jackson) is the most sensitive tree-species found across the high mountain ranges of Himalaya with deciphering tree-line for the region. Earlier studies showed the potential of Himalayan blue pine to reconstruct the past climate for...

Among all proxy archives, tree rings are highly promising indicator of ecological and environmental processes due to their high climatic sensitivity, better annual resolution, and large spatial coverage. Seasonal importance of soil moisture dynamics and impact of drought events on tree growth...

Pinus roxburghii Sarg. is a keystone gymnosperm tree of Western Himalayan subtropical forests of Kashmir region. It is a good choice for dendrochronological investigations as its core samples have potential to reflect changes in climatic pattern its growth rings. The present dendrochronological...

The spatial and temporal span of hydrological impact of the "Little Ice Age" (LIA) in the north-western Himalaya is not well constrained due to data limitation. We evaluated a network of tree-ring chronologies from moisture-stressed ecological settings in Jammu and Kashmir to identify the impact of ...

A regional, 175 year long, tree-ring width chronology (spanning 1840-2014 C.E.) was developed for Pinus wallichiana A. B. Jacks. (Himalayan Blue pine) from the Lidder Valley, Kashmir, Northwest Himalaya. Simple and seasonal correlation analysis (SEASCORR) with monthly climate records demonstrates a ...

To investigate the tree establishment and climatic signal present in tree-ring series, 104 increment core samples from 73 trees of Himalayan pencil cedar (Juniperus polycarpos) were collected. Ring-width sequences of trees are influenced by climatic factors as well as internal/external factors such ...