Collaborative Studies in Tropical Asian Dendrochronology: Addressing
Challenges in Climatology
and Forest Ecology
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HistoryDendrochronology is new in Asia. New Zealand was ahead in the practice of dendrochronology (Bell, V.E. and R.E. Bell, 1958) and followed by Australia (Ogden, J. 1978). In tropical Asia, India spearheaded dendrochronology (Pant, G.B., 1979). There was initially more preference for conifers until teak Tectona grandis became a reliable tree species for dendrochronology (D’Arrigo, R. and G. Jacoby, 1994). READ MORE |
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ObjectivesThe 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. READ MORE |
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ResultsTeam Philippines found 40 tree species with distinct growth rings (TSDGR) out of 226 tree species (TS) investigated; Team Malaysia 6 TSDGR / 13 TS; Team Thailand 28 TSDGR / 91 TS; Team India 12 TSDGR / 29 TS; and, Team Sri Lanka 16 TSDGR / 65 TS. For the whole SSEADENDRO, a total of 104 TSDR’s out of 424 TS has been identified. READ MORE |