Project Objectives

The Project has been designed mainly to conduct reconnaissance, i.e. find and list as many indigenous tree species in the wild that have distinct growth rings. Here, profound knowledge on the tree flora of an area and their taxonomy helps but even more important is the knowledge where to find indigenous tree species so that sampling as many tree species is optimized even under extreme social and weather extremes. Furthermore, the establishment of tree ring laboratories and xylarias are simultaneous requirements for reconnaissance work. In the present APN Project, a list of indigenous tree species with distinct rings is one of its major outputs. If in the future, these crossmatch or better crossdate, they will be considered assets for local dendrochronology. The present project has attempted to go into crossmatching and crossdating only to five tree species. Their relationship with climate at the local and regional scales are hereby illustrated and discussed.

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