Disentangling tree growth requires more than ring width only. Although X-ray densitometry is an established technique to determine key wood density parameters, tedious manual procedures hamper fast analyses. De Mil et...
Everyone knows that you can age a tree by counting its rings, and the width of those rings is a record of climate. But do you need trees to track the climate? Climate isn’t the same everywhere. The forthcoming El...
Dendroclimatology can play an important role in understanding past climatic changes, and where trees are not present it may be possible to utilize shrubs instead. Liang et al. examine the dendrochronological potential...