Dendrochronology

Method categorization
Quantitative	Qualitative
Inductive	Deductive
Individual	System	Global
Past	Present	Future

In short: Dendrochronology is concerned with the analysis of tree rings, whose chronological sequence can be used to date wood samples and infer information on environmental conditions, stressors and their effects on the plant species.

Visualisation of a typical result

Figure 1: modern dendrochronology lab with software for measuring and cross-dating rings and a scanner (Foster 2013a)

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The authors of this entry are Heike Zimmermann and Fabienne Friedrichs.