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ABSTRACT
Dendroecology consists of the study of spatio-temporal relationships between woody plants and their habitat. It focuses on the influence of common environmental signals to all the trees of a community, on climate signals and their interactions with local ecological conditions and also on external large-scale disturbances. This science has grown rapidly over the last decades due to the emergence of new environmental issues (global warming, increased pressure on the environment). This article presents the principles of dendroecology, the methods implemented, and the recent developments in the discipline through examples of use in environmental sciences.
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Christophe CORONA: Research Manager - National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - University of Bern, Institute of Geology
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Markus STOFFEL: Professor - University of Bern, Institute of Geology - University of Geneva, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Climate change and climate impacts
INTRODUCTION
Dendrochronology is a vast discipline that involves analyzing the chronologies of tree-ring widths. It is applied in a wide variety of fields (geology, anthropology, climatology) and currently encompasses all disciplines that make direct or indirect use of the "date" information contained in a tree-ring time series.
Dendroecology, derived from dendrochronology, refers to the study of spatio-temporal relationships between woody plants and their habitat. This discipline focuses on the influence of environmental signals common to all trees in a community: climatic signals and their interactions with local ecological conditions, as well as large-scale disturbances external to the forest community. It has diversified into several branches in recent years, in response to the emergence of new issues in earth and environmental sciences.
This article presents the basics of dendroecology (tree-ring formation and principles of the method, § 1 and 2 ), recent developments in the discipline and examples of its use in environmental sciences (paragraph 3 to
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KEYWORDS
global warming | environmental changes | ecology | climatology | dendroclimatology | dendroglaciology | dendrogeomorphology | dendrohydrology
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Formation of growth rings
Bibliography
Digital media
International Tree-Ring DatabBase ITRDB: international database of reference chronologies used in dendroecology http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treering.html
Software tools
The Dendrochronology Program Library: free software suite dedicated to dendrochronological analysis http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/pub/dpl/
Dendrochronology Program Library in R dpIR: set of r routines for standardizing dendrochronology data
Websites
ITRDB forum: world dendrochronology forum http://www.listserv.arizona.edu/archives/itrdbfor.html
GRISSNO MAYER (H.)'s personal website dedicated to dendrochronology http://www.web.utk.edu/~grissino
Events
WorldDendro: international dendrochronology symposium, held every four years (even-numbered years). http://www.dendro2014.com/
AmériDendro: international dendrochronology symposium organized by the tree-ring society, held every four years (odd-numbered years) on the American continent.
Directory
Organizations – Federations – Associations (non-exhaustive list)
Tree-ring society http://www.treeringsociety.org/
Laboratories – Design offices – Schools – Research centers (non-exhaustive list)
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