Dendrochronology is an essential tool to determine the date and provenance of wood from historical art objects. As standard methods to access the tree rings are invasive, X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been proposed for non-invasive dendrochronological investigation. While traditional CT can...

In Büyükyurt Village of Niksar city of Tokat province, there are 20 graves which are not known to which period and to whom they belong and made with the wooden Çantı technique. The aim of the paper is to determine which periods they belong to by dendrochronology methods by taking samples from the...

For dendrochronology, both high spatial resolution and a wide imaging area are required. However, there has been no study to satisfy these two requirement for a tree-ring measurement method using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this study, we developed a ring-width measurement method...

This paper deals about wood anatomy applications in plant taxonomy and its utility in this field of research. A historic review in classification systems is presented, including aspects about utilization of wood features in some classification systems. Also, a historic review of wood anatomy...

The global records of infectious diseases, including Western and Eastern documents from 1825 to 2020, during which sunspot observations are considered reliable, show that 27 of the 34 pandemic outbreaks were coincident with sunspot number maxima or minima. There is evidence that the intensity of...

The impact of climatic factor on the radial growth of shrubs in the mountain area is important to study in the context of climate change. In this study we analysed the radial growth of the shrubs in relationships to climate factors from two slope aspects (north and south) in Calimani Mts. In total, ...

Most Tibetan people make their living through pastoralism, with livestock grazing being widespread throughout the Tibetan Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau is also home to the northern hemisphere's highest treelines but the effects of human activities, in particular pastoralism, on these treelines and...

As in many archipelagos, the Azorean primary forest was largely cleared and replaced by secondary forest and grassland, the Azorean tree Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco being one of the dominant trees in the remaining natural forests. Dendrochronological and dendrometric studies in the Azores mainly...

The largest unfragmented tract of the rich-in-species old-growth Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis)- broadleaved forests in the world is situated in the basin of the Bikin River. The history of these forests, including the fire history, is very important for understanding factors of dynamics of these...

Regional and local climate change depends on continentality, orography, and human activities. In particular, local climate modification by water reservoirs can reach far from shore and downstream. Among the possible ecological consequences are shifts in plant performance. Tree-ring width of...