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Today’s research on tree-ring analysis is faced with the question whether growth of forests and climatic conditions have changed under anthropogenic emissions during the industrial period. The base for answering this question is as follows:
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All tree-rings are absolutely dated. Therefore they can be compared with dated climatological factors.
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Genetical and ecological variability within groups of individual trees can be minimized by building mean tree-growth curves, so-called chronologies.
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Ecologically defined tree-ring networks allow direct spatial reconstruction of growth patterns and their climatological interpretation.
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Schweingruber, F.H., Briffa, K.R. (1996). Reconstruction of Summer Temperatures with a Circumpolar Tree Ring Network. In: Goldammer, J.G., Furyaev, V.V. (eds) Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia. Forestry Sciences, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8737-2_7
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