The association between climate variability and episodic events, such as the antecedent moisture conditions prior to wildfire or the cooling following volcanic eruptions, is commonly assessed using Superposed Epoch Analysis (SEA). In SEA the epochal response is typically calculated as the average...

The purpose of this study is to determine the exceptional dry years of Pinus pinea L. (stone pine) by using dendroclimatology, and Selection drought-resistant trees depending on the differentiation in the width of the annual growth rings of exceptional dry years and adopting them as seed mothers....

Climate has been demonstrated to change at different scales for as far back as we have been able to reconstruct it. However, anthropogenic factors have accelerated and are predicted to cause significant changes in temperature and precipitation around the globe. As a consequence, vegetation is being ...

The influence of the temperature regime of the soil of the Verkhnecharskaya depression on the radial growth of larch is described, the soil temperature in the pre-instrumental period was reconstructed using the methods of dendrochronology.

In 2015 a dispute arose between an electricity company (EC) and smallholder of a teak plantation when the EC felled 80 trees (without consent of the owner) in a linear transect under a rural power-line-corridor (PLC), fragmenting the teak stand in two portions. The EC stated that there were no...

The rates of soil lost caused by water erosion have been estimated using the dendrochronology method. This method has been applied to forest masses of Pinus halepensis which are located at the southeast of the Community of Madrid. The erosion rates found for the different slopes that have been...

In this study we discussed how to use new indicator - blue intensity (BI) in dendroecological work. The advantages of optical density (BI) in comparison with other characteristics of the structure of annual rings are discussed. BI parameter was calculated for tree-rings of the Siberian larch in...

We present a comparative study on a 700-yr sequence of dendrochronologically ordered tree-rings of Pinus cembra originating from Eastern Carpathians for the period AD 1009-1709. This period covers the solar minima of the Little Ice Age. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of our...

Millennial long tree-ring records are crucial for better understanding temperature and hydroclimatic variability over the globe. Juniper is one of particularly long-lived species, which can provide more than a thousand-year record, especially in Central Asia. However, there is a lack of...

The mountain forest steppe and taiga in northern Mongolia have experienced a forest decline in area and quality since the end of the last century. Changes in land use, climate, fire frequency and pest occurrence are considered to be the main drivers of this vegetation shift and desertification....