Scientific Merits and Analytical Challenges ofTree‐Ring Densitometry

Different maximum latewood density and blue intensity measurements techniques reveal similar results

(2018) Ryszard J. Kaczka et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

RAPTOR: Row and position tracheid organizer in R

(2018) Richard L. Peters et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Climate driven trends in tree biomass increment show asynchronous dependence on tree-ring width and wood density variation

(2018) Astrid Vannoppen et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Blue intensity from a tropical conifer’s annual rings for climate reconstruction: An ecophysiological perspective

(2018) Brendan M. Buckley et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings

(2018) Jan Esper et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Lack of cool, not warm, extremes distinguishes late 20th Century climate in 979-year Tasmanian summer temperature reconstruction

(2018) K J Allen et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A new method for dating tree-rings in trees with faint, indeterminate ring boundaries using the Itrax core scanner

(2018) Heather A. Haines et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Disentangling the climate-driven bimodal growth pattern in coastal and continental Mediterranean pine stands

(2018) Arturo Pacheco et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Towards a better understanding of long-term wood-chemistry variations in old-growth forests: A case study on ancient Pinus uncinata trees from the Pyrenees

(2018) Andrea Hevia et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Applying methods of hard tissues preparation for wood anatomy: Imaging polished samples embedded in polymethylmethacrylate

(2018) Alberto Arzac et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Competition, tree age and size drive the productivity of mixed forests of pedunculate oak, beech and red oak

(2018) Stefanie R.E. De Groote et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Influence of sampling and disturbance history on climatic sensitivity of temperature-limited conifers

(2018) Miloš Rydval et al.   HOLOCENE

A 1200+ year reconstruction of temperature extremes for the northeastern Mediterranean region

(2018) Lara Klippel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Distinct growth responses to drought for oak and beech in temperate mixed forests

(2018) Margot Vanhellemont et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Implications of Liebig’s law of the minimum for tree-ring reconstructions of climate

(2017) A R Stine et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A 970-year-long summer temperature reconstruction from Rogen, west-central Sweden, based on blue intensity from tree rings

(2017) Mauricio Fuentes et al.   HOLOCENE

Facilitating tree-ring dating of historic conifer timbers using Blue Intensity

(2017) Rob Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

New Tree-Ring Evidence from the Pyrenees Reveals Western Mediterranean Climate Variability since Medieval Times

(2017) Ulf Büntgen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records

(2017) Sébastien Guillet et al.   Nature Geoscience

Cell size and wall dimensions drive distinct variability of earlywood and latewood density in Northern Hemisphere conifers

(2017) Jesper Björklund et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II, spatially resolved reconstructions

(2017) Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

New research perspectives from a novel approach to quantify tracheid wall thickness

(2017) Angela Luisa Prendin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Minimum wood density of conifers portrays changes in early season precipitation at dry and cold Eurasian regions

(2017) J. Julio Camarero et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

A field-to-desktop toolchain for X-ray CT densitometry enables tree ring analysis

(2016) Tom De Mil et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A 382-year reconstruction of August mean minimum temperature from tree-ring maximum latewood density on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

(2016) Hanxue Liang et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

June–September temperature reconstruction in the Northern Caucasus based on blue intensity data

(2016) Ekaterina Dolgova   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Wood density provides new opportunities for reconstructing past temperature variability from southeastern Australian trees

(2016) Alison J. O'Donnell et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The value of crossdating to retain high-frequency variability, climate signals, and extreme events in environmental proxies

(2016) Bryan A. Black et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial reconstruction of Scottish summer temperatures from tree rings

(2016) Miloš Rydval et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Last millennium northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: The long term context

(2016) Rob Wilson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ecological and climatological signals in tree-ring width and density chronologies along a latitudinal boreal transect

(2016) Elisabeth Düthorn et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Common trends in elements? Within- and between-tree variations of wood-chemistry measured by X-ray fluorescence — A dendrochemical study

(2016) Tobias Scharnweber et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Environmental drivers of cambial phenology in Great Basin bristlecone pine

(2016) Emanuele Ziaco et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Seasonal climate signals from multiple tree ring metrics: A case study ofPinus ponderosain the upper Columbia River Basin

(2016) Matthew P. Dannenberg et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Signals and memory in tree-ring width and density data

(2015) Jan Esper et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to A.D. 600 based on a wood density network

(2015) Lea Schneider et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Detecting long-term growth trends using tree rings: a critical evaluation of methods

(2015) Richard L. Peters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years

(2015) Markus Stoffel et al.   Nature Geoscience

The influence of elevational differences in absolute maximum density values on regional climate reconstructions

(2015) Peng Zhang et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Preliminary December-January inflow and streamflow reconstructions from tree rings for western Tasmania, southeastern Australia

(2015) K. J. Allen et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Effect of early release from intense competition within high density natural regeneration on the properties of juvenile and mature wood of 40-year-old Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.)

(2014) Andrew D. Cameron et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Synoptic drivers of 400 years of summer temperature and precipitation variability on Mt. Olympus, Greece

(2014) Stefan Klesse et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Fennoscandia revisited: a spatially improved tree-ring reconstruction of summer temperatures for the last 900 years

(2014) Hans W. Linderholm et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Relationship between wood anatomy, tree-ring widths and wood density of Pinus sylvestris L. and climate at high latitudes in northern Sweden

(2014) C. Pritzkow et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Blue intensity for dendroclimatology: Should we have the blues? Experiments from Scotland

(2014) Miloš Rydval et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Models for predicting wood density variation in Scots pine

(2014) D. Auty et al.   FORESTRY

Absence of late-summer warming trend over the past two and half centuries on the eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Pei Xing et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The influence of sampling design on tree-ring-based quantification of forest growth

(2014) Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Using adjusted Blue Intensity data to attain high-quality summer temperature information: A case study from Central Scandinavia

(2014) Jesper Björklund et al.   HOLOCENE

Blue Intensity for dendroclimatology: The BC blues: A case study from British Columbia, Canada

(2014) Rob Wilson et al.   HOLOCENE

Minimum wood density ofJuniperus thuriferais a robust proxy of spring water availability in a continental Mediterranean climate

(2014) Jesús Julio Camarero et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Northern European summer temperature variations over the Common Era from integrated tree-ring density records

(2014) JAN ESPER et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Traits, properties, and performance: how woody plants combine hydraulic and mechanical functions in a cell, tissue, or whole plant

(2014) Barbara Lachenbruch et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Kinetics of tracheid development explain conifer tree-ring structure

(2014) Henri E. Cuny et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Recent micro-CT scanner developments at UGCT

(2014) Manuel Dierick et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Drought-induced increase in water-use efficiency reduces secondary tree growth and tracheid wall thickness in a Mediterranean conifer

(2014) José Miguel Olano et al.   OECOLOGIA

A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) Flurin Babst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Intra-annual dendroclimatic reconstruction for northern British Columbia, Canada, using wood properties

(2014) Lisa J. Wood et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Comparative axial widening of phloem and xylem conduits in small woody plants

(2014) Giai Petit et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Wood density proxies of adaptive traits linked with resistance to drought in Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco)

(2014) Manuela Ruiz Diaz Britez et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Arctic tree rings as recorders of variations in light availability

(2014) A. R. Stine et al.   Nature Communications

A palaeotemperature record for the Finnish Lakeland based on microdensitometric variations in tree rings

(2014) Samuli Helama et al.   Geochronometria

A 449 year warm season temperature reconstruction in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau and its relation to solar activity

(2014) Jianping Duan et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Temperature-induced responses of xylem structure of Larix sibirica (Pinaceae) from the Russian Altay

(2013) Patrick Fonti et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Wood density as a screening trait for drought sensitivity in Norway spruce

(2013) S. Rosner et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Development of tree-ring maximum latewood density chronologies for the western Tien Shan Mountains, China: Influence of detrending method and climate response

(2013) Yu-jiang Yuan et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

The advantage of using a starch based non-Newtonian fluid to prepare micro sections

(2013) Loïc Schneider et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

3D tree-ring analysis using helical X-ray tomography

(2013) Jan Van den Bulcke et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

ROXAS – A new tool to build centuries-long tracheid-lumen chronologies in conifers

(2013) Georg von Arx et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

A 1200-year multiproxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe

(2013) Danny McCarroll et al.   HOLOCENE

A strong regional temperature signal in low-elevation Huon pine

(2013) K. J. ALLEN et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Above-ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites

(2013) Flurin Babst et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Intra-annual dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in the cambium of mature conifer trees reflects radial growth demands

(2013) S. Simard et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Climate signals derived from cell anatomy of Scots pine in NE Germany

(2013) W. Liang et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Spectral biases in tree-ring climate proxies

(2013) Jörg Franke et al.   Nature Climate Change

Volcanic cooling signal in tree ring temperature records for the past millennium

(2013) Rosanne D'Arrigo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Quantifications of dendrochronological information from contrasting microdensitometric measuring circumstances of experimental wood samples

(2012) S. Helama et al.   APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES

Reconstructing mean maximum temperatures of May–August from tree-ring maximum density in North Da Hinggan Mountains, China

(2012) Yu Sun et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Legacies of pre-industrial land use can bias modern tree-ring climate calibrations

(2012) BE Gunnarson et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Multi-century reconstructions of Pacific salmon abundance from climate-sensitive tree rings in west central British Columbia, Canada

(2012) Colette C. A. Starheim et al.   Ecohydrology

Climate and glacier mass balance trends from ad 1780 to present in the Columbia Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

(2012) Lisa J Wood et al.   HOLOCENE

Potential bias in ‘updating’ tree-ring chronologies using regional curve standardisation: Re-processing 1500 years of Torneträsk density and ring-width data

(2012) Thomas M Melvin et al.   HOLOCENE

A pan-European summer teleconnection mode recorded by a new temperature reconstruction from the northeastern Mediterranean (ad 1768–2008)

(2012) V Trouet et al.   HOLOCENE

Tree-Ring-Reconstructed Summer Temperatures from Northwestern North America during the Last Nine Centuries*

(2012) Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Tree rings and volcanic cooling

(2012) Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al.   Nature Geoscience

Xylem plasticity in response to climate

(2012) Patrick Fonti et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Multi-archive summer temperature reconstruction for the European Alps, AD 1053–1996

(2012) Mathias Trachsel et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Advances towards improved low-frequency tree-ring reconstructions, using an updated Pinus sylvestris L. MXD network from the Scandinavian Mountains

(2012) Jesper A. Björklund et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Wood properties in a long-lived conifer reveal strong climate signals where ring-width series do not

(2012) D. M. Drew et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Xylem plasticity allows rapid hydraulic adjustment to annual climatic variability

(2012) Marina Bryukhanova et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

(2012) Jan Esper et al.   Nature Climate Change

A multi-proxy approach for revealing recent climatic changes in the Russian Altai

(2011) Olga V. Sidorova et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Reconstructing Holocene climate from tree rings: The potential for a long chronology from the Scottish Highlands

(2011) R. Wilson et al.   HOLOCENE

Causes and Consequences of Past and Projected Scandinavian Summer Temperatures, 500–2100 AD

(2011) Ulf Büntgen et al.   PLoS One

Extending the Place Glacier mass-balance record to AD 1585, using tree rings and wood density

(2011) Lisa J. Wood et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Temperature reconstruction from tree-ring maximum latewood density of Qinghai spruce in middle Hexi Corridor, China

(2011) Feng Chen et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Assessment of tree response to drought: validation of a methodology to identify and test proxies for monitoring past environmental changes in trees

(2011) A. Tene et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Blue Intensity In Pinus sylvestris Tree Rings: A Manual for A New Palaeoclimate Proxy

(2011) Rochelle Campbell et al.   Tree-Ring Research

Measuring wood specific gravity…Correctly

(2010) G. Bruce Williamson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

High-resolution proxies for wood density variations in Terminalia superba

(2010) Maaike De Ridder et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Radiodensitometric-dendroclimatological conifer chronologies from Lapland (Scandinavia) and the Alps (Switzerland)

(2010) Fritz Hans Schweingruber et al.   BOREAS

Improving a tree-ring reconstruction from west-central Scandinavia: 900 years of warm-season temperatures

(2010) Björn E. Gunnarson et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence

(2010) Giovanna Battipaglia et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Dual role of lignin in plant litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems

(2010) A. T. Austin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wood density and its radial variation in six canopy tree species differing in shade-tolerance in western Thailand

(2009) Charles A. Nock et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Divergence pitfalls in tree-ring research

(2009) Jan Esper et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The core-microtome: A new tool for surface preparation on cores and time series analysis of varying cell parameters

(2009) Holger Gärtner et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

(2009) P.D. Jones et al.   HOLOCENE

Terahertz pulse imaging for tree-ring analysis: a preliminary study for dendrochronology applications

(2009) J B Jackson et al.   MEASUREMENT SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY

Studying global change through investigation of the plastic responses of xylem anatomy in tree rings

(2009) Patrick Fonti et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Intra-annual variability of anatomical structure and δ13C values within tree rings of spruce and pine in alpine, temperate and boreal Europe

(2009) Eugene A. Vaganov et al.   OECOLOGIA

Diverse climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width and density

(2009) Ulf Büntgen et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Dendrochronological investigation of wood extractives

(2009) Samuli Helama et al.   WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The Relationships of Wood-, Gas- and Water Fractions of Tree Stems to Performance and Life History Variation in Tropical Trees

(2008) Lourens Poorter   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Long-term summer temperature variations in the Pyrenees

(2008) Ulf Büntgen et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

A “signal-free” approach to dendroclimatic standardisation

(2008) Thomas M. Melvin et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The climate sensitivity of Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] in the southeastern European Alps

(2008) Tom Levanič et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

On the ‘Divergence Problem’ in Northern Forests: A review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

(2007) Rosanne D'Arrigo et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE