Dendrochronology is a well-established dating method for wooden objects, but due to surface processing of construction timber or natural degradation the dating of historical wood often relies on a prediction of the number of missing rings based on sapwood statistics. Since Scots pine (Pinus...

Relict tree species in the Andean mountains are important sources of information about climate variability and climate change. This study deals with dendroclimatology and growth patterns in Polylepis reticulata Hieron., growing at high elevation (mean of 4000 m a.s.l.) in three sites of the...

Tree rings provide an invaluable long-term record for understanding how climate and other drivers shape tree growth and forest productivity. However, conventional tree-ring analysis methods were not designed to simultaneously test effects of climate, tree size, and other drivers on individual...

Climate-growth relationships in forest trees are increasingly the focus of research aimed at understanding and assessing responses to climate change. Many studies have been confined to annual radial growth at breast height as an easy-to-measure dendrological standard variable, although its validity ...

Objective: Exploring the stand productivity in the forests with different densities and its response to climate change is helpful for the functional assessment and adaptive management of forest ecosystems. Method: In this study, the net primary productivity (NPP) of natural Mongolian pine (Pinus...

The analysis of the correlative link between the growth processes and the climatic factors with daily resolution allows to remove monthly barriers induced by the monthly time limits. Thus, we can identify cumulative periods in which climatic factors have a high influence on radial growth. This...

Drought-induced forest decline and mortality have become increasingly widespread around the globe, while thinning is considered to be an effective measure in forestry to enhance tree growth and forest health particularly in water-limited areas. Nevertheless, there is a keen lack of comprehensive...

Tree growth is affected by many exogenous and endogenous factors, especially climate and competition. To address the issue of how these factors influence tree growth under global warming, dendroclimatology combined with competition analysis was used to examine the radial growth response of two...

The Interior West Forest Inventory and Analysis (IW-FIA) program measures forestland conditions at great extent with relatively high spatial resolution, including the collection of tree-ring data. We describe the development of an unprecedented spatial tree-ring data set for the IW-FIA that...

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....