Highlights•Trees in Africa may form annual rings and grow to multicentury
age.•Dendroecology helps to reconstruct climate trends and atmospheric circulation …

Implementing sustainable forest management requires basic information on growth, ages,
reproduction and survival of exploited tree species. This information is generally derived …

Wood anatomical features may be visible on the microscopic as well as on the macroscopic
scale. While the former can often be quantified by detailed wood anatomical analyses, the …

After the ice caps, tropical forests are globally the most threatened terrestrial environments.
Modern trees are not just witnesses to growing contemporary threats but also legacies of …

Dendroecological research uses information stored in tree rings to understand how single
trees and even entire forest ecosystems responded to environmental changes and to finally …

Mangroves throughout the world are threatened by environmental changes apart from
anthropogenic disturbances. Many of these changes may inhibit the growth and survival of …

The populations of light-demanding trees that dominate the canopy of central African forests
are now aging. Here, we show that the lack of regeneration of these populations began ca …

It is still unclear whether the exponential rise of atmospheric CO2 concentration has
produced a fertilization effect on tropical forests, thus incrementing their growth rate, in the …

Paleo-environmental reconstructions show that the distribution of tropical African rain forests
was affected by Quaternary climate changes. They suggest that the Dahomey Gap (DG) …

The phenomenon of distinct, absent or indistinct growth rings is a highly variable feature
used for wood identification and a wide range of tree-ring studies. Causes for its variability …