Contents of Tree Rings, Environment and Humanity

Preface

Dedication

I. Global Change

Keynote lecture: Dendrochronology and Global Change

Brian H. Luckman

Development of a North Eurasian Chronology Network: Rationale and Preliminary Results of Comparative Ring-Width and Densitometric Analyses in Northern Russia

K. R. Briffa, P. D. Jones, F. H. Schweingruber, S. G. Shiyatov and E. A. Vaganov

Variability of Hydrologic Drought in the Ozark Highlands, 1680-1980

Malcolm K. Cleaveland and David W. Stahle

Dendroclimatic, Ecological and Geomorphological Evidence for Long-Term Climatic Change in the Sierra Nevada, U.S.A.

Lisa J. Graumlich and A. H. Lloyd

Summer Temperature Variations Reconstructed by Tree-Ring Data at the Polar Timberline in Siberia

S. G. Shiyatov, V. S. Mazepa, E. A. Vaganov and F. H. Schweingruber

II. Biological Basis for Dendrochronology

Keynote lecture: Analysis of Seasonal Tree-Ring Formation and Modeling in Dendrochronology

E. A. Vaganov

Wood-Anatomical Evidence of Fire Seasonality

Wolfgang Ortloff

Using Cell Chronologies in Seasonal Tree Growth Analysis and Dendroclimatology

E. A. Vaganov, L. G. Vysotskaya and A. V. Shashkin

A Tree-Ring Record of Dry Spring-Wet Summer Events in the Forest-Steppe Ecotone, Northern Patagonia, Argentina

Ricardo Villalba and Thomas T. Veblen

III. Dendroclimatology and Dendrohydrology

Keynote lecture: The Hydroclimatic Application of Tree-Ring Chronologies

David W. Stahle

Keynote lecture: Dendroclimatology in the Southern Hemisphere: Review and Prospects

José A. Boninsegna and Ricardo Villalba

Dendroclimatic Characteristics of Alpine Larch (Larix lyallii Parl.) at Treeline Sites in Western Canada

Margaret E. Colenutt and Brian H. Luckman

Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Past Drought Across the Coterminous United States: Tests of a Regression Method and Calibration/Verification Results

Edward R. Cook, David M. Meko, David W. Stahle and Malcolm K. Cleaveland

Tree-Ring Records of Subantarctic Climate Over Recent Centuries to Millennia

Rosanne D. D'Arrigo, Edward R. Cook, Gordon C. Jacoby and Brendan M. Buckley

Dendroclimatological Investigation Covering the Last 300 Years in Central Spain

Angel Fernández, Mar Génova, José Creus and Emilia Gutiérrez

A 2129-Year Reconstruction of Precipitation for Northwestern New Mexico, USA

Henri D. Grissino-Mayer

Synoptic Dendroclimatology: Overview and Outlook

Katherine K. Hirschboeck, Fenbiao Ni, Michelle L. Wood and Connie A. Woodhouse

A Multimillennial Network of Giant Sequoia Chronologies for Dendroclimatology

M. K. Hughes, R. Touchan and P. M. Brown

Alaskan Dendroclimatic Variations for the Past 300 Years Along a North-South Transect

Gordon C. Jacoby, Gregory Wiles and Rosanne D. D'Arrigo

Climatic Signal in Earlywood and Latewood of Deciduous Oaks from Northern Italy

Paola Nola

Hydrological Data from the Long Irish Subfossil Oak Records

J. R. Pilcher, M. G. L. Baillie, D. M. Brown and F. G. McCormac

Detection of a Hurricane Signal in Baldcypress Tree-Ring Chronologies

Gregory A. Reams and Paul C. Van Deusen

The Dendrochronology of Celtis reticulata in the Grand Canyon: Assessing the Impact of Regulated River Flow on Tree Growth

Matthew W. Salzer, V. A. S. McCord, Lawrence E. Stevens and Robert H. Webb

Tree Growth Decrease Between AD 1800 and 1840 in Subarctic and Highland Regions of Russia

S. G. Shiyatov

Dendroclimatic Potential in the Northern Great Plains

Carolyn Hull Sieg, David Meko, Arthur T. DeGaetano and Wanmei Ni

Kalman Filter Analysis of Growth-Climate Relations in Old-Growth Ponderosa Pine/Douglas-Fir Stands

Brian Steele and Carl Fiedler

Earlywood, Latewood and Total Ring Width of a Ring-Porous Species (Fraxinus nigra Marsh.) in Relation to Climatic and Hydrologic Factors

Jacques Tardif

Temperature in Taiwan During the Last 300 Years as Reconstructed from Tree-Ring Records

P. S. Tsou and T. K. Liu

Bayesian Procedures for Reconstructing Past Climate

Paul C. Van Deusen and Gregory A. Reams

IV. Dendroecology

A Review of Dendroecology and Successional Dynamics of Old-Growth and Second-Growth Oak and Pine Forests in the Eastern United States

Marc D. Abrams and David A. Orwig

Canopy Gaps in Coniferous Forests of the Pyrenees: Discrete Versus Continuous Changes

Oriol Bosch and Emilia Gutiérrez

Tree-Ring Growth Trends Since the Swiss Forest Damage Inventory "SANASILVA 1984": Results of a 1992 Pilot Study

Otto U. Bräker

Scars as Evidence of Past Forest Cuts in a Subalpine Spruce Forest in the Alps

Paolo Cherubini and Fritz H. Schweingruber

The Dynamics of Old-Growth Thuja-Tsuga Forests Near Vancouver, British Columbia

Lori D. Daniels and Karel Klinka

Dendroecological Analysis of Laurel (Cordia alliodora) and Other Species from a Lowland Moist Tropical Forest in Panama

Margaret S. Devall, Bernard R. Parresol and K. Lê

Detecting Hurricane Impact and Recovery from Tree Rings

Thomas W. Doyle and Lance E. Gorham

Effects of Municipal Wastewater on Baldcypress (Taxodium Distichum (L.) Rich.) Productivity in a Louisiana Swamp

Irene Ducrest Hesse and Thomas W. Doyle

Needle Retention Chronology along a Pollution Gradient

Risto E. Jalkanen

Model for the Decline and Dieback of Oaks Based on an Analysis of Ring Widths

R. R. Laxton, H. J. Zainodin and B. J. W. Greig

Using Tree Rings to Study Forest Decline: An Epidemiological Approach Based on Estimated Annual Wood Volume Increment

David C. LeBlanc

The Trees Around Chernobyl as Bioindicators: A Preliminary Study

L. S. Zhirina and A. M. Kryshtop

V. Human Behavioral Adaptations

Keynote lecture: Dendrochronology and the Study of Human Behavior

Jeffrey S. Dean

Tree Rings and Pile-Dwellings in Southwestern Germany: Following in the Footsteps of Bruno Huber

André Billamboz

Comparison Between Oak and Beech Tree-Ring Series From a Medieval Site and Living Trees in France

Christine Bourquin-Mignot, Georges-Noël Lambert, Catherine Lavier and Christophe Perrault

Tree-Ring Studies on the Tudor Warship Mary Rose

M. C. Bridge and C. Dobbs

Behavioral Sources of Error in Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating: Navajo and Pueblo Wood Use

J. S. Dean

Dendrochronological Studies in the French Mediterranean Area

Frédéric Guibal

Tree-Ring Research at Windsor Castle: Aims and Initial Results

Jennifer Hillam and Cathy Groves

Dendrochronology and the Study of Roof-Framing in Belgium and Northern France

Patrick Hoffsummer

Dendrochronological Results on Buildings in Switzerland: Geographical Aspects

Jean-Pierre Hurni and Christian Orcel

Dendrochronology and Works of Art

Catherine Lavier and Georges Lambert

Problems and Prospects of Absolute Tree-Ring Dating for the Sayan-Altay Archaeological Monuments (First Millennium BC)

L. S. Marsadolov

Dendrochronological Study of Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in Switzerland

Jean Tercier, Alain Orcel and Christian Orcel

VI. Dendrochemistry

Isotope Dendroclimatology Studies in the Canadian Rockies: Some Preliminary Results

T. W. D. Edwards and B. H. Luckman

NMR, FTIR and HPLC Techniques as Analytical Tools in Tree-Ring Investigations

Barbara Hinterstoisser, Andreas Hofinger, Sylvia Hofer, Martin Ulreich and Rupert Wimmer

Climate Signals in a ²H and C Chronology (1882-1989) from Tree Rings of Spruce (Picea abies L.), Schussbach Forest, Germany

Josef Lipp, Peter Trimborn, Wolfgang Graf, Thomas Edwards and Bernd Becker

Further High-Resolution ¹³C Measurements of Oak Reveal a Spring Depletion

Neil Ogle and F. G. McCormac

Seasonal Changes in the Isotopic Composition of Oak Cellulose

I. Robertson, A. M. Pollard, T. H. E. Heaton and J. R. Pilcher

Tree Biology and Dendrochemistry

Kevin T. Smith and Walter C. Shortle

Climatic Signals from Stable Isotopes in Oak Tree Rings from East Anglia, Great Britain

V. R. Switsur, J. S. Waterhouse, E. M. Field and A. H. C. Carter

Dendrochemistry of Loblolly Pine and Cypress Cores: Initial Results for Forest Health Monitoring

Charles E. Thomas, Shane D. Latimer, Owen P. Mills and Kim H. N. Lê

Possible Relationships Between Chemistry and Mechanical Properties in the Microstructure of Red Spruce Xylem

Rupert Wimmer and Samuel B. McLaughlin

VII. Geological Phenomena

Rates of Slope Erosion Determined from Exposed Roots of Ponderosa Pine at Rose Canyon Lake, Arizona

Shelley R. Danzer

Dendroglaciology at Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada

Brian H. Luckman

Fluvial Process Dendrogeomorphology: Reconstruction of Flood Events from the Southwestern United States Using Flood-Scarred Trees

V. Alexander S. McCord

VIII. General Dendrochronology

Extreme Environmental Events and the Linking of Tree-Ring and Ice-Core Records

M. G. L. Baillie

Recent Developments in the Analysis of an Italian Tree-Ring Network with Emphasis on European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

Franco Biondi and Simona Visani

OLDLIST: A Database of Maximum Tree Ages

Peter M. Brown

Climate Signals in Coastal Old-Growth Forest Trees Near Vancouver, British Columbia

Jaroslav Dobrý, Josef Kyncl, Karel Klinka and B. A. Blackwell

Application of New Wood Characterization Technology to Dendrochronology and Dendroclimatology

Robert Evans, Geoff Downes and John Murphy

Oak Tree-Ring Series from France Between 4000 BC and 800 BC

Olivier Girardclos, Georges Lambert and Catherine Lavier

An 1100-Year Tree-Ring Chronology of Oak for the Dutch Coastal Region (2258-1141 BC)

Esther Jansma

A Multilingual Glossary of Dendrochronology

Michèle Kaennel and F. H. Schweingruber

Adaptability of Radial Growth of Norway Spruce to Climate Variations: Results of a Site-Specific Dendroecological Study in High Elevations of the Black Forest (Germany)

Hans-Peter Kahle and Heinrich Spiecker

Modeling and Simulations of a Dendrochronological Test Site

Andrey A. Koocher, Gregory B. Kofman, Irene S. Dashkovskaya, Aleksander N. Borisov and Maxim J. Gurevich

Subfossil Oak Chronology (474 BC-AD 1529) from Southern Poland

Marek Kracpiec

French Regional Oak Chronologies Spanning More Than 1000 Years

Georges-Noël Lambert, Vincent Bernard, Claire Doucerain, Olivier Girardclos, Catherine Lavier, Beatrice Szepertisky and Yvonne Trenard

Qualitative Annual-Ring Analysis of Conifers with the Aid of the Laser-Sandblasting Method (LSS)

Georges Lesnino

Image Analysis of Tracheid Dimensions for Dendrochronological Use

M. A. R. Munro, P. M. Brown, M. K. Hughes and E. M. R. Garcia

Reconstruction of the Annual Variation in Zurich Sunspot Number From Tree Ring-Index Time Series

J. O. Murphy, H. Sampson, T. T. Veblen and R. Villalba

Resistographic Visualization of Tree-Ring Density Variations

Frank Rinn

A Reflected-Light Video Imaging System for Tree-Ring Analysis of Conifers

Paul R. Sheppard and Lisa J. Graumlich