Roxas -A new tool to build centuries-long tracheid-lumen chronologies in conifers

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 290-293

  von Arx, Georg ^a   Carrer, Marco ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated image analysis; Dendrochronology; Tree ring anatomy; Whole sample analysis

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATA ACQUISITION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEW RECORD; TREE RING;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 84910607354     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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