Tree-ring studies provide important contributions to understanding the climate sensitivity of
tropical trees and the effects of global change on tropical forests. This chapter reviews recent …

Over the last decade the field of tropical dendroecology has developed rapidly and major
achievements have been made. We reviewed the advances in three main themes within the …

Bacterially produced branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) are ubiquitous
in soils and lake sediments and can potentially be used to reconstruct past temperatures. In …

Water use efficiency (WUE) reflects the coupling of carbon and water cycles. Analyzing the
spatial variability of WUE can improve our understanding on the interaction between carbon …

Carbon isotope values (δ13C) of plants reflect the balance between photosynthesis and
stomatal conductance and vary with environmental conditions. Temperature is an important …

The notion that many tropical tree species form annual growth rings has triggered research
on their growth and its environmental drivers over long periods of time. Even more recently …

Climatic hazards, such as severe droughts and floods, affect extensive areas across
monsoon Asia and can have profound impacts on the populations of that region. The area …

Understanding the responses of tropical trees to increasing [CO 2] and climate change is
important as tropical forests play an important role in carbon and hydrological cycles. We …

Highlights•Trees in Africa may form annual rings and grow to multicentury
age.•Dendroecology helps to reconstruct climate trends and atmospheric circulation …

Munessa Forest is a mountain forest in south-eastern Ethiopia experiencing seasonal
rainfall variation. We investigated seasonal cambial activity and dormancy from increment …