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- A long-awaited update of the classic work "Tree Rings and Climate" by Fritts (1976)
- Will serve as a standard reference for many years
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 183)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Each tree ring contains an image of the time when the ring formed, projected onto the ring's size, structure, and composition. Tree rings thus are natural archives of past environments, and contain records of past climate. While dendrochronologists have investigated the impact of climate on tree-ring growth by empirical–statistical methods, this volume presents a process-based model complementing previous approaches. Basic ideas concerning the biology of tree-ring growth and its control by environmental factors are treated, especially for conifers. The use of the model is illustrated by means of several examples from widely differing environments, and possible future directions for model development and application are discussed. The volume provides an improved mechanistic basis for the interpretation of tree rings as records of past climate. It advances process understanding of the large-scale environmental control of wood growth. As forests are the main carbon sink on land, the results are of great importance for all global change studies.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This volume links conifer tree physiology and ecology with computerized simulations to analyze environmental data stored in tree rings. ... This volume will be important and stimulating for experts who practice dendrochronology or wood formation, ecologists of boreal forest, and graduate students ... . This book will interest modelers and forest ecologists who wish to learn more about tree-growth modeling." (Paolo Cherubini and Simcha Lev-Yadun, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 83 (1), March, 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
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Siberian Branch, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest Russian Academy of Sciences, Academgorodok, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Eugene A. Vaganov, Alexander V. Shashkin
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Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Malcolm K. Hughes
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Growth Dynamics of Conifer Tree Rings
Book Subtitle: Images of Past and Future Environments
Authors: Eugene A. Vaganov, Malcolm K. Hughes, Alexander V. Shashkin
Series Title: Ecological Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31298-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-26086-8Published: 19 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06547-7Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-31298-7Published: 12 March 2006
Series ISSN: 0070-8356
Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 358
Topics: Plant Ecology, Tree Biology, Climate Change, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Plant Anatomy/Development, Forestry