December 2009
PRELIMINARY INDOMALAYAN TREE RING CHRONOLOGIES AND THE SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX
By Nestor Baguinon,
December 28, 2009
While the main objective of the Project , "Collaborative Studies in Tropical Asian Dendrochronology: Addressing Challenges in Climatology and Forest Ecology" is reconnaissance for tree species with distinct growth rings, two of the five SSEADENDRO teams, the Philippines and India, attempted to graph tree ring widths with time to find evidence of crossmatching.READ MORE
WONDERFUL WIDE RANGING INDOMALAYAN TREES WITH DISTINCT GROWTH RINGS
By Nestor Baguinon,
December 28, 2009
Collaborators of the APN Project, "Collaborative Studies in Tropical Asian Dendrochronology: Addressing Challenges in Climatology and Forest Ecology" climbed mountains and penetrated lush jungles to find their quarry. They did this in their respective countries. It is astonishing to discover a tree with distinct tree rings in the forests of Sri Lanka is also found in the Philippines and vise versa.READ MORE
WONDERFUL WIDE RANGING INDOMALAYAN TREES WITH DISTINCT GROWTH RINGS
By Nestor Baguinon,
December 28, 2009
Dendrochronologists, scientists who study tree rings, can reconstruct past climates by looking at the patterns of tree rings. There was a time when temperate trees were the only ones to have rings. The rings in temperate trees have been useful records of past climates in North America and Europe. Later, few tropical trees were shown to have rings too. In tropical Asia, dendrochronology started with tree species that grow in dry areas, such as pines and teak.READ MORE