The Milo River in Guinea is one of the tributaries of Upper Niger. Its basin has a semi-arid climate with alternating dry and wet seasons in a biogeographic context of savannah. The West African monsoon brings rain between June and September with a long dry period affecting river levels and...

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...

Recent methodological advances have opened new perspectives for tropical dendrochonological studies by facilitating the visualization, delimitation, and analyses of tree-rings. One of those improvements was brought by X-ray densitometry, which allows building radial wood density profiles at...

Tectona grandis (teak) is an important commercial tree species that is widely used in tropical dendrochronology due to the formation of climate-sensitive annual growth rings. However, young trees growing in plantation conditions exhibit poor ring visibility during the first years of growth,...

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...

Teak (Tectona grandis Linn f.) is a commercial timber species which has been widely studied for dendroclimatology. The objective of the investigation was to utilize dendroclimatological approach in plantation management for teak growers. To monitor the effect of climatic factors, viz. rainfall and...

We developed two tree-ring chronologies of teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) from Mae Tuen (462-year, 1555-2016) and Umphang (165-year, 1852-2016) in Tak province, northwestern Thailand. The chronologies were based on 67 and 71 living teak trees, respectively. We used crossdating methods to check and...

The oxygen isotopic composition (δ¹⁸O) of tree-ring cellulose has been recognized as a powerful tool for dendroclimatological and dendrochronological investigations in Asia. Only a few studies of cellulose δ¹⁸O so far published, however, have been conducted in Indonesia, and the spatial coherence...

The dendrochronological study of teak (Tectona grandis), Khasi pine (Pinus kesiya) and oak (Quercus serrata) was carried out in two forest divisions of Mizoram, Northeast India. Three tree-ring chronologies were developed of which, T. grandis is 31 year (1987-2017 C.E.), P. kesiya is 40 year...

To understand inter-annual to decadal summer monsoon precipitation variations in Myanmar, we developed new tree-ring chronologies of Tectona grandis (teak) from three sampling sites in north-central Myanmar where the climatic proxy is sparse. A regional chronology (spanning 1700-2016) derived from...