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				Thursday, 03.05.2007 | 
			
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				15:00 | 
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				18:00 | 
				Registration (Kronvalda bulv. 4, 
				Faculty of Biology) | 
			
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				18:00 | 
				- | 
				19:00 | 
				ATR Board meeting 
				(Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of 
				Biology) | 
			
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				19:00 | 
				- | 
				23:00 | 
				ICE breaker 
				(Raina bulv. 14, University of 
				Latvia (main building)) | 
			
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				Friday, 04.05.2007 | 
			
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				8:30 | 
				- | 9:00 | 
				Registration
				(Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of 
				Biology) | 
			
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				9:00 | 
				- | 
				9:30 | 
				Opening
				(Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of 
				Biology) | 
			
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				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) | 
			
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				Reconstructing Summer North 
				Atlantic Oscillation (SNAO) variability over the last centuries | 
			
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				10:10 | 
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				10:20 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				10:20 | 
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				10:40 | 
				Johannes Schultz, 
				Burkhard Neuwirth, Jörg Löffler, Matthias Winiger | 
			
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				  |   |   | Growth 
				responses to NAO along a Central European West-East Transect | 
			
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				10:40 | 
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				11:00 | 
				Stella Bogino 
				& Felipe Bravo | 
			
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				  |   |   | ENSO and 
				NAO impacts on Pinus pinaster Ait. growth in Spanish 
				forest | 
			
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				11:00 | 
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				11:20 | 
				Duncan A. Christie, 
				A. Lara, J.A. Barichivich, R. Villalba, M.S. Morales & E.A. Cuq | 
			
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				  |   |   | El Niño 
				Southern Oscillation Signal in World Highest Elevation Tree-Ring 
				Chronologies from the Altiplano Plateau at 4,600 m a.s.l. | 
			
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				11:20 | 
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				11:40 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				11:40 | 
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				12:00 | 
				Dagmar Friedrichs, 
				B. Neuwirth, J. Löffler, M. Winiger | 
			
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				  |   |   | Growth 
				variations of oaks under different climatic and environmental 
				conditions in low mountain ranges (Germany) | 
			
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				12:00 | 
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				12:20 | 
				Fan Zexin 
				and Achim Bräuning | 
			
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				  |   |   | The 
				reconstruction of spring precipitation variation from tree rings 
				since AD 1550 from Northwestern Yunnan, China | 
			
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				12:20 | 
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				12:40 | 
				Ionel Popa, 
				Olivier Bouriaud  | 
			
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				  |   |   | 500 years 
				summer temperature variability in Eastern Carpathians inferred 
				from stone pine (Pinus cembra) tree ring width | 
			
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				12:40 | 
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				13:00 | 
				
				Matthew Brookhouse | 
			
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				  |   |   | Life at 
				the edge: resolving the climatological sensitivity of sub alpine 
				snow gum | 
			
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				13:00 | 
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				14:00 | 
				Lunch | 
			
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				14:00 | 
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				14:20 | 
				Ulf Büntgen, 
				David C. Frank, Håkan Grudd & Jan Esper | 
			
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				  |   |   | Eight 
				centuries of Pyrenees summer temperatures from tree-ring density | 
			
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				14:20 | 
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				14:40 | 
				
				Wolfgang Beck | 
			
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				Representative Mean Growth Behaviour of Forest Stands – 
				Methodical Aspects from Dendrochronology and Forest Mensuration | 
			
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				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 | 
			
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				  |   |   | Stable 
				isotopes in tree rings: climate and human activity in the last 
				400 years, Poland | 
			
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				15:00 | 
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				15:20 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				15:20 | 
				- | 
				15:40 | 
				Barbara Sensuùa, 
				Anna Pazdur, Peter Derrick | 
			
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				Application of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in 
				analysis of ancient wood components | 
			
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				15:40 | 
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				16:00 | 
				Christina E. Reynolds-Henne, 
				R.T.W. Siegwolf, K. Treydte, J. Esper, S. Henne, M. Saurer | 
			
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				  |   |   | Temporal 
				Stability of Climate-Isotope Relationships in Tree Rings of Oak 
				and Pine (Ticino, Switzerland) | 
			
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				16:00 | 
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				16:20 | 
				Kerstin Treydte 
				and ISONET partners | 
			
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				  |   |   | Signal 
				strength and climate calibration of a European tree-ring isotope 
				network | 
			
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				16:20 | 
				- | 
				16:40 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				16:40 | 
				- | 
				17:00 | 
				Peter von Schnakenburg, 
				Achim Bräuning, Gerd Helle | 
			
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				  |   |   | Detecting 
				annual growth rythms from oxygen and carbon isotopes in tropical 
				mountain rain forest trees in southern Ecuador | 
			
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				17:00 | 
				- | 
				17:20 | 
				Sùawomira Paweùczyk, 
				Anna Pazdur, Tatjana Boettger, Marika Haupt, Marek Kràpiec, 
				Elýbieta Kràpiec-Szychowska | 
			
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				  |   |   | Stable 
				isotopes C, H and O in tree rings as a tool for climate 
				reconstruction | 
			
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				17:20 | 
				- | 
				18:40 | 
				ATR meeting 
				(Kronvalda bulv. 4, Faculty of Biology) | 
			
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				19:00 | 
				- | 
				22:00 | 
				Banquet (Raina bulv. 14, 
				University of Latvia (main building)) | 
			
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				| Saturday, 05.05.2007 | 
			
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				9:00 | 
				- | 
				9:40 | 
				Alar Läänelaid 
				(Invited speaker) | 
			
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				  |   |   | Some 
				aspects of dendrochronology in the Baltics | 
			
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				9:40 | 
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				10:00 | 
				
				Rik van Bogaert | 
			
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				Recent treeline dynamics in northernmost Sweden (Torneträsk): a 
				multidisciplinary landscape approach | 
			
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				10:00 | 
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				10:20 | 
				Jan Eckstein; 
				Leuschner, H.H. & Bauerochse, A . | 
			
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				Dendroecological studies on subfossil pine and oak from „Totes 
				Moor“ near Hannover (Lower Saxony, Germany) | 
			
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				10:20 | 
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				10:40 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				10:40 | 
				- | 
				11:00 | 
				Jan Esper, 
				David Frank, Ulf Büntgen, Anne Verstege, Jürg Luterbacher, Elena 
				Xoplaki | 
			
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				  |   |   | Long-term 
				drought severity variations in Morocco | 
			
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				11:00 | 
				- | 
				11:20 | 
				
				Niels Bleichner | 
			
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				Dendroecology of neolithic timber using dendrotypology, 
				growth-patterns and stand-dynamics | 
			
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				11:20 | 
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				11:40 | 
				Robert Tomusiak | 
			
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				  |   |   | Tree ring 
				analysis in a damaged pine stand | 
			
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				11:40 | 
				- | 
				12:00 | 
				Stefanie Fischer, 
				B. Neuwirth, J. Löffler & M. Winiger | 
			
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				  |   |   | Effects 
				of various site ecological features on radial growth pattern in 
				North Rhine-Westphalia | 
			
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				12:00 | 
				- | 
				12:20 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				12:20 | 
				- | 
				13:00 | 
				Poster-session | 
			
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				13:00 | 
				- | 
				14:00 | 
				Lunch | 
			
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				14:00 | 
				- | 
				14:20 | 
				Szymon 
				Bijak | 
			
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				  |   |   | Influence 
				of tree and stand index thresholds on the number of pointer 
				years | 
			
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				14:20 | 
				- | 
				14:40 | 
				Valerie Trouet, 
				Alan H. Taylor, C.N. Skinner, and A.M. Carleton | 
			
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				  |   |   | A 
				tree-ring derived fire weather reconstruction and climatology 
				for northern California and Oregon | 
			
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				14:40 | 
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				15:00 | 
				Adomas Vitas, 
				Mâris Zunde | 
			
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				Dendrochronological investigation on historical English oak (Quercus 
				robur L.) in Lithuania and Latvia: problems and potential | 
			
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				15:00 | 
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				15:20 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				15:20 | 
				- | 
				15:40 | 
				Michal Rybníèek, 
				Tomáð Kyncl, Vladimír Gryc, Eva Přemyslovská, Hanuð Vavrèík | 
			
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				  |   |   | Building 
				of the oak standard chronology for the Czech Republic | 
			
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				15:40 | 
				- | 
				16:00 | 
				Mindaugas 
				Brazauskas | 
			
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				  |   |   | The 
				dendrochronology of archeological oak found in old town of 
				Klaipeda | 
			
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				16:00 | 
				- | 
				16:20 | 
				Mireia 
				Celma Martínez | 
			
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				Archaeological site of Dolmen de la Font dels Coms (Llavorsí, 
				Pallars Sobirà, Spain). Charcoal analysis for human impact and 
				dendroecological interpretation | 
			
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				16:20 | 
				- | 
				16:40 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				16:40 | 
				- | 
				17:00 | 
				Holger Gärtner 
				& Ingo Heinrich | 
			
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				  |   |   | Traumatic 
				rows of resin ducts - A valuable parameter for dating events in 
				Geomorphology? | 
			
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				17:00 | 
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				17:20 | 
				Roman Gut, 
				Holger Gärtner & Vanessa Winchester | 
			
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				Dendrogeomorphological analysis of a landslide area near Buck’s 
				Mills, England | 
			
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				17:20 | 
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				17:40 | 
				
				C.T. Bues, B. Günther, J. König | 
			
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				Application of multivariate cross-dating to historical timbers 
				with less than 50 tree rings | 
			
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				17:40 | 
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				18:40 | 
				Poster-session | 
			
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				| Sunday, 06.05.2007 | 
			
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				9:00 | 
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				9:20 | 
				Detlef Drosihn, 
				Philipp Duncker and Heinrich Spiecker | 
			
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				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 | 
			
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				9:20 | 
				- | 
				9:40 | 
				Erica Bigio, 
				Holger Gärtner & Marco Conedera | 
			
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				  |   |   | Wood 
				anatomical analysis of fire-scarred chestnut in southern 
				Switzerland | 
			
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				9:40 | 
				- | 
				10:00 | 
				Eva Přemyslovská, 
				Jarmila Ðlezingerová, Libuðe Gandelová | 
			
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				  |   |   | Tree ring 
				width and basic density of wood in different forest type | 
			
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				10:00 | 
				- | 
				10:20 | 
				Coffee-break | 
			
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				10:20 | 
				- | 
				10:40 | 
				Joþica Grièar, 
				Primoþ Oven, Tom Levaniè | 
			
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				  |   |   | Seasonal 
				dynamics of wood formation in Norway spruce during 2002-2004 | 
			
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				10:40 | 
				- | 
				11:00 | 
				Rochelle Campbell | 
			
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				  |   |   | Blue 
				Intensity in Pinus sylvestris: application, validation 
				and climatic sensitivity of a new palaeoclimate proxy for tree 
				ring research | 
			
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				11:00 | 
				- | 
				12:00 | 
				Closing words | 
			
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				12:00 | 
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				19:00 | 
				Excursion |