Oral presentations

DENDROCLIMATOLOGY

Invited talk - Stable Isotopes in Tree-rings : Strengths, Weaknesses, Limitations and Potential: N. LOADER

Adaptability of forest species to climate change: A. TENE et al

Drought response of Central European tree-rings: B. NEUWIRTH et al

Growth response to climate in suppressed trees in a Norway spruce forest: D. CASTAGNERI et al

Factors influencing the growth of white spruce (Picea glauca), Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada: G. KING et al

Climate response of Norway spruce on various habitat types in north-eastern Poland: S. BIJAK

Up they go? Effects of recent warming on alpine shrubs in Sweden and Alaska: M. HALLINGER et al

Growth climate response at high elevation: comparing Alps and Himalayas: A. TENCA et al

Climate signals in stable isotopes of Juniperus from Turkey back to AD1025: I. HEINRICH et al

Albania - Potential for long-term climate reconstruction: A. SEIM et al

Austrian pine (Pinus nigra Arnold) tree-ring width chronology from northeast Albania: T. LEVANIČ et al

Extreme climatic events in the North-Eastern Siberia: spatio-temporal reconstruction based on tree ring anomalous structures: M. GURSKAYA et al

Growth response to climate and drought in Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.) trees of different crown classes identifying strongly related climatic variables: J. OLIVAR et al

Size dependent climate-growth relationships in Pinus halepensis and Pinus pinea: M. de LUIS et al (presented by K. NOVAK)

Climatological and hydrological signals from New Zealand’s Kahikatea: R. KENNEDY et al

Dendroclimatic analysis of pine wood from Swedish peat bogs – towards a precise Holocene humidity record: J. EDVARDSSON et al

Intra-seasonal pathway of oxygen isotopes from soil to wood - a case study along a transect in the Loetschental/Swiss Alps: K. TREYDTE et al

The influence of temperature, precipitation and CO2 on tree growth and water use efficiency in semi-arid woodlands: K. MASEYK et al

Reconstruction of extreme rainfall event in headwater area using exposed roots of Picea abies (Polish Flysch Carpathians): D. WROŃSKA-WAŁACH

WOOD FORMATION DYNAMICS

Invited talk - Development of new tools in wood anatomy for time series analysis: H. GÄRTNER

Basic density of branch wood with bark, branch wood and bark of spruce from different areas in the Czech Republic: V. GRYC et al

Anatomy based models of wood for single and multifield tasks: P. KOŇAS et al

Root system architecture - Fusion of 2D ring-width data and 3D Laser scan models: B. WAGNER et al

Intra-annual density fluctuations – archives of climate change: J. VIEIRA et al

Intra-annual growth of Larix decidua and Picea abies along an altitudinal gradient in the Lötschental, Switzerland: P. FONTI et al

The study of cambial activity at METLA (Finnish Forest Research Institute): T. JYSKE et al

To understand if the observed differences in forest trees diameter according to their social status are attributable to differences in the duration or in the rate of radial growth?: C. RATHGEBER

Increment cores from the Finnish National Forest Inventory as a source of information for studying radial increment during a growing season: H. MÄKINEN et al

Drought signals in Norway spruce tracheid sequences: H. P. KAHLE et al

Influence of climate on tracheid dimensions in black and Scots pines in central Spain: D. MARTÍN-BENITO et al

The search for coppice fingerprints in growth patterns and wood anatomical features: P. COPINI et al

Topochemical investigations in beech (Fagus sylvatica) bark: P. PRISLAN et al

Successive cambia in three dimensions: the mangrove Avicennia inside: E. M. R. ROBERT et al

DENDROECOLOGY

Invited talk - Tree-ring anomalies as indicators of climate: some case studies from the Canadian mixed boreal forest.: J. C. TARDIF et al

Multi-proxy reconstruction of Epirrita autumnata outbreaks in the area of Lake Torneträsk (SWE): F. BABST et al

Dendrochronological studies on radial growth of silver fir (Abies alba Mill) inside and outside distribution range in Poland: A. BRONISZ et al

Diameter growth of silver fir trees in multi-storied stands in Świętokrzyskie Mountains: K. BRONISZ

Physiological and growth response of European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) in upper timberline (SE Alps): M. ČATER et al

Dendrochronology of oak (Quercus spp.) in Slovenia, the state of today and challenges: Katarina ČUFAR et al

A 300-year hydroclimatic reconstruction for the Río Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina: Erin GLEESON et al

Reconstruction of debris flow activity based on tree-ring data of Arctic dwarf shrubs, Wedel Jarlsberg Land, Spitsbergen: P. OWCZAREK et al

Records of trail erosion in exposed roots of spruce Picea abies  - dendrogeomorphological approach (Polish flysch Carpathians): A. BUCHWAL

Effect of roads on tree-ring width on the example of Scots pine in Koniecpol Forest District in Poland: R. TOMUSIAK et al

Poster presentations (in alphabetical order)

Achim BRÄUNING, Aster GEBREKIRSTOS, Julia KREPKOWSKI,

Seasonal growth dynamics of different tree species in Munessa forest (Ethiopia) and their climatic control

R. J BALE, I. ROBERTSON, M. GAGEN, N. J. LOADER, D. McCARROLL, T. P. HARLAN, S. W. LEAVITT,

Climatic reconstruction from δ13C values of bristlecone pine tree rings

Agnieszka BRONISZ, Karol BRONISZ,

Dendrochronological characteristics of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) from the Świętokrzyskie Mountains

J. Julio CAMARERO, Jacques TARDIF, Rodolfo Hernández ALONSO, France CONCIATORI, Juan Manuel GIL, Miguel ROS

Historical interactions of climate and defoliation by the pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa)

Filipe CAMPELO, Cristina NABAIS, Paolo CHERUBINI, Ignacio GARCÍA-GONZÁLEZ, Emília GUTIERREZ, Helena FREITAS

Dendrochronology of Quercus ilex L. in a Mediterranean area

Manuela CAPANO, Olivia PIGNATELLI, Fabio MARZAIOLI, Carmina SIRIGNANO, Simona ALTIERI, Carmine LUBRITTO, Antonio D’ONOFRIO, Filippo TERRASI

Tree ring analysis of Bosco Fontana forest (Mantova, Italy): estimation of pollution diffusion using dendrochronology and 14C measurements

Igor DROBYSHEV, Martin SIMARD, Yves BERGERON, Annika HOFGAARD

Does soil organic layer thickness affect climate-growth relationships in the black spruce boreal forest?

Igor DROBYSHEV, Mats NIKLASSON; Hans LINDERHOLM, Kristina SEFTIGEN, Kerstin SONESSON, Thomas HICKLER; Olafur EGGERTSSON, Hans LINDERSON

Reconstruction of regional drought indexes in southern Sweden since 1750 AD

Aster GEBREKIRSTOS, Demel TEKETAY, Ralph MITLÖHNER

The potential of tree-ring width and stable carbon isotopes in tree rings as climate proxy in semi arid Africa

Michał GODEK, Krzysztof MIGAŁA, Izabella SZUBERT

Dendrochronological indices of the changes of climate in Wroclaw since the XVIII century

Jožica GRIČAR

Effect of thickness of dead bark and experimentally elevated temperatures on cambial activity

Polona HAFNER, Tom LEVANIČ

June temperature reconstruction from tree-ring width data of European Larch (Larix decidua Mill.)

Karina HENNIG, Gerhard HELLE, Burkhard NEUWIRTH, Oka KARYANTO, Tomy LISTYANTO, Navis ROFII, Matthias WINIGER

Dendroclimatological potential of multi-parameter records from tropical tree-rings - a case study on Tectona grandis from Java, Indonesia

Stefanie JOHANN, Michael MALBERG, Bernd DIEKKRÜGER, Burkhard NEUWIRTH

Dendro-hydrological analysis of spruces - A Case Study in the Wuestebachvalley, W-Germany

Tomáš KOLÁŘ, Michal RYBNÍČEK, Eva PŘEMYSLOVSKÁ

Dating and properties of the subfossil oak wood

Iryna KOVAL

Response of Pinus Sylvestris L. radial growth on Diprion Pini L. and Neodiprion sertifer Geoffr. outbreaks in forest zone of Ukraine

Jürgen KÖNIG

New aspects of multivariate dendrochronology - generation and analysis of intra-annual profiles by using szintillation techniques

Frank KRUMM, Momchil PANAYOTOV

Comparison in radial growth patterns of Picea abies (L.) Karst. in subalpine Bulgarian and Swiss forests

Tomas KYNCL, Ladislav SMEJDA, Libor JANICEK, Petr POKORNY

Dendrochronological analysis of wooden constructions from the Iron-age archaeological site „Vladař“ in Western Bohemia (Czech Republic)

Ireneusz MALIK, Danek MAŁGORZATA, Marek KRĄPIEC

Air pollution recorded in Scots Pine growing near a chemical plant (example from Upper Silesia, southern Poland)

Monika MAZIARZ, Zdzisław JARY

Tree ring record of slope processes and gully floor dynamics, Strzelińskie Hills, Sudetes Mts.

Maks MERELA, Igor SERŠA, Primož OVEN

Nondestructive tree ring research with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

Constantin NECHITA, Ionel POPA

Climatic sensitivity of Oak (Quercus robur) from West of Romania

Magdalena OPAŁA

Changes in climatic signal of European Fir (Abies alba Mill.) in the last century in the Ojcowski National Park and the Pieninski National Park, Poland

Primož OVEN

Application of the pinning method for examination of wound-wood formation in Norway spruce

Momchil PANAYOTOV, Ional POPA, Dimiter DIMITROV, Evgeni TSAVKOV, Steffan YURUKOV

Pointer years in Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica tree ring chronologies from Bulgaria and Romania

Ionel POPA

Climatic signal of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) at its Eastern distribution border

Eva PŘEMYSLOVSKÁ, Tomáš KOLÁŘ, Michal RYBNÍČEK

Coarse Woody Debris dating in Moravka river

Aleksandra POSPIESZYŃSKA, Marcin KOPROWSKI, Andrzej ZIELSKI, Rajmund PRZYBYLAK

Climate reaction of old stands Pinus sylvestris L. in Gołąbki Forest Inspectorate (Poland)

Joanna REMISZ

Dendrochronological record of slope processes in the Bardo region, Sudety Mountains, SW Poland.

Michal RYBNÍČEK, Lubomír PROCHÁZKA, Tomáš KOLÁŘ, Eva PŘEMYSLOVSKÁ

Building of Fir and Spruce Standard Chronology for the Area of the Middle Vltava Basin

J. SCHULTZ, B. NEUWIRTH, M. WINIGER, J. LÖFFLER

Atmospheric Circulation indices derived from trees and GWL

Carolin SEELE, Dominik HESSENMÖLLER, Ernst-Detlef SCHULZE

Disentangling the influences of understory light availability and browsing damage on growing patterns of natural forest regeneration

Marieke THEUNISSEN, Hans-Peter KAHLE, Heinrich SPIECKER

Growth responses and cell characteristics of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) at different altitudes in south-western Germany

Ervin TOROMANI

Dating of religious objects in the Voskopoja region by means of radiocarbonic method

Giles H. F. YOUNG, Danny McCARROLL, Neil J. LOADER, Andreas J. KIRCHHEFER

500 years of summer cloud cover recorded in the stable carbon isotopes of Norwegian tree-rings

Hanuš VAVRČÍK, Vladimír GRYC, PETR KOŇAS

Comparison of wood density in relation to growth rings of English oak and Sessile oak