Annual Conference of the

Association for Tree-Ring Research

 

Purpose Location/Accomodation Program Talks/Posters Participants Abstracts Registration Sponsors
 

Program

Thursday, 03.05.2007

15:00

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18:00

Registration (Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of Biology)

18:00

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19:00

ATR Board meeting (Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of Biology)

19:00

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23:00

ICE breaker (Raina bulv. 14, University of Latvia (main building))

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, 04.05.2007

8:30

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9:00

Registration (Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of Biology)

9:00

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9:30

Opening (Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of Biology)

9:30

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10:10

Hans Linderholm, Chris Folland, David Fereday, Jim Hurrell, Sarah Ineson, Jeff Knight and Adam Scaife (Invited speaker)

 

 

 

 

Reconstructing Summer North Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO) variability over the last centuries

10:10

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10:20

Coffee-break

10:20

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10:40

Johannes Schultz, Burkhard Neuwirth, Jörg Löffler, Matthias Winiger

 

 

 

 

Growth responses to NAO along a Central European West-East Transect

10:40

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11:00

Stella Bogino & Felipe Bravo

 

 

 

 

ENSO and NAO impacts on Pinus pinaster Ait. growth in Spanish forest

11:00

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11:20

Duncan A. Christie, A. Lara, J.A. Barichivich, R. Villalba, M.S. Morales & E.A. Cuq

 

 

 

 

El Niño Southern Oscillation Signal in World Highest Elevation Tree-Ring Chronologies from the Altiplano Plateau at 4,600 m a.s.l.

11:20

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11:40

Coffee-break

11:40

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12:00

Dagmar Friedrichs, B. Neuwirth, J. Löffler, M. Winiger

 

 

 

 

Growth variations of oaks under different climatic and environmental conditions in low mountain ranges (Germany)

12:00

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12:20

Fan Zexin and Achim Bräuning

 

 

 

 

The reconstruction of spring precipitation variation from tree rings since AD 1550 from Northwestern Yunnan, China

12:20

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12:40

Ionel Popa, Olivier Bouriaud

 

 

 

 

500 years summer temperature variability in Eastern Carpathians inferred from stone pine (Pinus cembra) tree ring width

12:40

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13:00

Matthew Brookhouse

 

 

 

 

Life at the edge: resolving the climatological sensitivity of sub alpine snow gum

13:00

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14:00

Lunch

14:00

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14:20

Ulf Büntgen, David C. Frank, Håkan Grudd & Jan Esper

 

 

 

 

Eight centuries of Pyrenees summer temperatures from tree-ring density

14:20

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14:40

Wolfgang Beck

 

 

 

 

Representative Mean Growth Behaviour of Forest Stands – Methodical Aspects from Dendrochronology and Forest Mensuration

14:40

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15:00

Anna Pazdur, Slawomira Pawelczyk, Natalia Piotrowska, Andrzej Rakowski, Malgorzata Szczepanek, Tatjana Boettger, Marika Haupt, Stanislaw Halas, Marek Krapiec, Elýbieta Szychowska – Krapiec and  Nakamura Toshio

 

 

 

 

Stable isotopes in tree rings: climate and human activity in the last 400 years, Poland

15:00

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15:20

Coffee-break

15:20

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15:40

Barbara Sensuùa, Anna Pazdur, Peter Derrick

 

 

 

 

Application of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in analysis of ancient wood components

15:40

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16:00

Christina E. Reynolds-Henne, R.T.W. Siegwolf, K. Treydte, J. Esper, S. Henne, M. Saurer

 

 

 

 

Temporal Stability of Climate-Isotope Relationships in Tree Rings of Oak and Pine (Ticino, Switzerland)

16:00

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16:20

Kerstin Treydte and ISONET partners

 

 

 

 

Signal strength and climate calibration of a European tree-ring isotope network

16:20

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16:40

Coffee-break

16:40

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17:00

Peter von Schnakenburg, Achim Bräuning, Gerd Helle

 

 

 

 

Detecting annual growth rythms from oxygen and carbon isotopes in tropical mountain rain forest trees in southern Ecuador

17:00

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17:20

Sùawomira Paweùczyk, Anna Pazdur, Tatjana Boettger, Marika Haupt, Marek Kràpiec, Elýbieta Kràpiec-Szychowska

 

 

 

 

Stable isotopes C, H and O in tree rings as a tool for climate reconstruction

17:20

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18:40

ATR meeting (Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of Biology)

19:00

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22:00

Banquet (Raina bulv. 14, University of Latvia (main building))

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 05.05.2007

9:00

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9:40

Alar Läänelaid (Invited speaker)

 

 

 

 

Some aspects of dendrochronology in the Baltics

9:40

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10:00

Rik van Bogaert

 

 

 

 

Recent treeline dynamics in northernmost Sweden (Torneträsk): a multidisciplinary landscape approach

10:00

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10:20

Jan Eckstein; Leuschner, H.H. & Bauerochse, A .

 

 

 

 

Dendroecological studies on subfossil pine and oak from „Totes Moor“ near Hannover (Lower Saxony, Germany)

10:20

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10:40

Coffee-break

10:40

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11:00

Jan Esper, David Frank, Ulf Büntgen, Anne Verstege, Jürg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki

 

 

 

 

Long-term drought severity variations in Morocco

11:00

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11:20

Niels Bleichner

 

 

 

 

Dendroecology of neolithic timber using dendrotypology, growth-patterns and stand-dynamics

11:20

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11:40

Robert Tomusiak

 

 

 

 

Tree ring analysis in a damaged pine stand

11:40

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12:00

Stefanie Fischer, B. Neuwirth, J. Löffler & M. Winiger

 

 

 

 

Effects of various site ecological features on radial growth pattern in North Rhine-Westphalia

12:00

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12:20

Coffee-break

12:20

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13:00

Poster-session

13:00

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14:00

Lunch

14:00

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14:20

Szymon Bijak

 

 

 

 

Influence of tree and stand index thresholds on the number of pointer years

14:20

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14:40

Valerie Trouet, Alan H. Taylor, C.N. Skinner, and A.M. Carleton

 

 

 

 

A tree-ring derived fire weather reconstruction and climatology for northern California and Oregon

14:40

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15:00

Adomas Vitas, Mâris Zunde

 

 

 

 

Dendrochronological investigation on historical English oak (Quercus robur L.) in Lithuania and Latvia: problems and potential

15:00

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15:20

Coffee-break

15:20

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15:40

Michal Rybníèek, Tomáð Kyncl, Vladimír Gryc, Eva Přemyslovská, Hanuð Vavrèík

 

 

 

 

Building of the oak standard chronology for the Czech Republic

15:40

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16:00

Mindaugas Brazauskas

 

 

 

 

The dendrochronology of archeological oak found in old town of Klaipeda

16:00

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16:20

Mireia Celma Martínez

 

 

 

 

Archaeological site of Dolmen de la Font dels Coms (Llavorsí, Pallars Sobirà, Spain). Charcoal analysis for human impact and dendroecological interpretation

16:20

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16:40

Coffee-break

16:40

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17:00

Holger Gärtner & Ingo Heinrich

 

 

 

 

Traumatic rows of resin ducts - A valuable parameter for dating events in Geomorphology?

17:00

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17:20

Roman Gut, Holger Gärtner & Vanessa Winchester

 

 

 

 

Dendrogeomorphological analysis of a landslide area near Buck’s Mills, England

17:20

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17:40

C.T. Bues, B. Günther, J. König

 

 

 

 

Application of multivariate cross-dating to historical timbers with less than 50 tree rings

17:40

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18:40

Poster-session

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 06.05.2007

9:00

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9:20

Detlef Drosihn, Philipp Duncker and Heinrich Spiecker

 

 

 

 

Intra-annual variations of wood density of Picea abies [L.] Karst. at different altitudes of the Black Forest. Typified density profiles and the influence of weather conditions on wood density

9:20

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9:40

Erica Bigio, Holger Gärtner & Marco Conedera

 

 

 

 

Wood anatomical analysis of fire-scarred chestnut in southern Switzerland

9:40

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10:00

Eva Přemyslovská, Jarmila Ðlezingerová, Libuðe Gandelová

 

 

 

 

Tree ring width and basic density of wood in different forest type

10:00

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10:20

Coffee-break

10:20

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10:40

Joþica Grièar, Primoþ Oven, Tom Levaniè

 

 

 

 

Seasonal dynamics of wood formation in Norway spruce during 2002-2004

10:40

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11:00

Rochelle Campbell

 

 

 

 

Blue Intensity in Pinus sylvestris: application, validation and climatic sensitivity of a new palaeoclimate proxy for tree ring research

11:00

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12:00

Closing words

12:00

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19:00

Excursion

 

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