METHODS OF DENDROCHRONOLOGY - APPLICATIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Fifty chapters explore the new techniques and approaches to the analysis of tree rings that have developed as the science has grown from its initial application in archaeological dating to the provision of information on such environmental topics as forest decline, the sustainability of water supplies, prediction of agricultural crops, the adoption of silvicultural measures in response to ecological changes, the dating and evaluating of some astrophysical phenomena, and the indicating of possible increase in the biospheric carrying capacity due to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Contributors primarily from the US, Western Europe, and the USSR provide perspectives on both the northern and southern hemispheres.