Key message A better understanding of the influence of environmental conditions on wood
formation should help to improve the radial growth of trees and to prepare for climate …

From its inception as a scientific discipline, tree-ring research has been used as a trans-
disciplinary tool for dating and environmental reconstruction. Tree-ring chronologies in some …

The extent to which water availability can be used to predict the enlargement and final
dimensions of xylem conduits remains an open issue. We reconstructed the time course of …

Key message Dynamic global vegetation models are key tools for interpreting and
forecasting the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climatic variation and other drivers …

This chapter overviews long-standing foundations, methods, and concepts of
dendrochronology, yet also pays attention to a few related paradigm shifts driven by isotope …

Genetic association studies in forest trees would greatly benefit from information on the
response of trees to environmental stressors over time, which can be provided by …

Tree rings form the backbone of high-resolution palaeoclimatology and represent one of the
most frequently used proxy to reconstruct climate variability of the Common Era. In the …

Quantitative wood anatomy (QWA) has proven to be a powerful method for extracting
relevant environmental information from tree-rings. Although classical image-analysis tools …

We describe the implementation of the Vaganov–Shashkin tree-ring growth model (VSM) in
MATLAB. VSM, originally written in Fortran, mimics subdaily and daily resolution processes …

Key message Although the radial diameter and wall thickness of conifer tracheids from dry
environments are climatic-sensitive across the full ring area, each cell parameter has a …