Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-of-Art

Markus Stoffel (Curatore)

Michelle Bollschweiler (Curatore)

Springer, 2012

Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen that trees which produced annual growth rings were reacting to g- morphic processes resulting in changes in their internal and external growth p- terns. Dendroclimatology was an already well established field, but the reactions of trees to other environmental processes were far less well understood in the 1960s. It was Alestalo (1971) who first used the term, dendrogeomorphology. In the early 1970s, I could see that active slope-movement processes were affecting the growth of trees in diverse ways at certain localities. I wanted to learn more about those processes and try to extract a long-term chronology of movement from the highly diverse ring patterns.

• Curatore: Markus Stoffel, Michelle Bollschweiler
• Editore: Springer
• Collana: Advances in Global Change Research
• Anno: 2012
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 505 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9789400732179

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