Trees and Wood in Dendrochronology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Fritz Hans Schweingruber

      Pages 1-2

3. Factors Influencing the Development and Form of Stem Cross-Sections

   1. Factors Influencing the Development and Form of Stem Cross-Sections

      • Fritz Hans Schweingruber

      Pages 3-27

4. Monographic Presentation of Tree Species

   1. Tree Species in Eurasia and Japan

      • Fritz Hans Schweingruber

      Pages 28-207

   2. Tree Species in North America

      • Fritz Hans Schweingruber

      Pages 208-342

   3. Tree Species in the Southern Hemisphere

      • Fritz Hans Schweingruber

      Pages 343-385

5. Back Matter

   Pages 386-402

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The science of dendrochronology has grown significantly in the past 20 years. In the 1950s and 1960s, interest in the subject was limited to only a handful of scientists who perceived in dendrochronology a "l'art pour l'art". Today, however, specialists from many different fields recognize and are pursuing the problems of dendrochronology. Tree-ring research has acquired a permanent role in the various sciences of archeology, history, geology, ecology, and climatology. The founders of dendrochronology themselves were of varied scientific backgrounds and interests. For example, A. E. Douglass in the United States was an astronomer, B. Huber in Germany a forest-biologist, and F. N. Shvedov in Russia a climatologist. Today the spectrum is even broader. Many den­ drochronologists are authorities in mathematics, archeology, history, forestry, botany, wood technology, ecology geography, geology, etc. It is, therefore, understandable that it has become almost impossible for one individual to encompass the entire field. Bitvinskas (1974), Fritts (1976), Schweingruber (1983), and Mitsutani (1990) have attempted, each guided by his own interests, to provide at least an overview of the field. Recently, individual aspects have been presented by groups of authors in books edited by Fletscher (1978), Hughes et al. (1982), Jacoby and Hornbeck (1987) and Bradley and Jones (1992). It is very likely that in the future summaries covering each branch of dendrochronology will be published.

• Climatology
• botanics
• dendrochronology
• ecology
• forest
• forestry
• global change
• tree-rings
• wood anatomy

• Research Group: Tree Ring and Site Department of Forest and Climate Ecology, The Swiss Federal Institute of Forest Snow and Landscape (FSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland

  Fritz Hans Schweingruber

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