SabaTracheid 1.0: A Novel Program for Quantitative Analysis of Conifer Wood Anatomy — A Demonstration on African Juniper From the Blue Nile Basin [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Knowledge about past climates, especially at a seasonal time scale, is important as it allows informed decisions to be made to mitigate future climate change.
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Wood Anatomical Responses of European Beech to Elevation, Land Use Change, and Climate Variability in the Central Apennines, Italy [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) is a widespread and economically important temperate tree species in Europe. The warmer temperatures and severe drought events expected in the future, especially in Mediterranean areas, could affect the vitality and ...
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Editorial: Quantitative wood anatomy to explore tree responses to global change [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Fabio Gennaretti +5 more
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Non-linear Response to Cell Number Revealed and Eliminated From Long-Term Tracheid Measurements of Scots Pine in Southern Siberia [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Dendroclimatic research offers insight into tree growth–climate response as a solution to the forward problem and provides reconstructions of climatic variables as products of the reverse problem. Methodological developments in dendroclimatology have led
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Tree ring segmentation using UNEt TRansformer neural network on stained microsections for quantitative wood anatomy. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2023 Forests are critical in the terrestrial carbon cycle, and the knowledge of their response to ongoing climate change will be crucial for determining future carbon fluxes and climate trajectories.
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Vessels in a Rhododendron ferrugineum (L.) population do not trace temperature anymore at the alpine shrubline. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 Introduction Mean xylem vessel or tracheid area have been demonstrated to represent powerful proxies to better understand the response of woody plants to changing climatic conditions.
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A protocol for high-quality sectioning for tree-ring anatomy [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceQuantitative wood anatomy (QWA), which involves measuring wood cell anatomical characteristics commonly on dated tree rings, is becoming increasingly important within plant sciences and ecology.
Marina V. Fonti +19 more
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Quantitative vessel mapping on increment cores: a critical comparison of image acquisition methods. [PDF]
Front Plant SciIntroductionQuantitative wood anatomy is critical for establishing climate reconstruction proxies, understanding tree hydraulics, and quantifying carbon allocation.
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Towards ROXAS AI: automatic multi-species ring boundaries segmentation as regression in anatomical images. [PDF]
Front Plant SciIntroduction: Quantitative wood anatomy (QWA) along a time series of tree rings (known as tree-ring anatomy or dendroanatomy) has proven to be very valuable for reconstructing climate and for investigating the responses of trees and shrubs to ...
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Blue rings in trees and shrubs as indicators of early and late summer cooling events at the northern treeline. [PDF]
Front Plant SciThe high temperature sensitivity of pine trees in northern Fennoscandia has led to some of the most reliable tree-ring climate reconstructions in the world for the past millennia. However, wood anatomical anomalies that likely reflect temperature-induced
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