TRACE Vol. 4 (2006)

CONTENTS
SECTION 1 CLIMATOLOGY - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

E.J. Hendy: Dendroclimatology underwater: Australian coral records from 1565AD	8
M.T. Brookhouse: Crossdating of terminal and reverse-latewood eucalypt tree-rings	16
A. Fowler: Mean sea level pressure composite mapping as an exploratory tool in dendroclimatology	23
A. Verheyden, G. Helle, G.H. Schleser & H. Beeckman: High-resolution carbon and oxygen isotope profiles of tropical and temperate liana species	31

SECTION 2 CLIMATOLOGY - NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

U. Büntgen, D. C. Frank, R. Böhm & J. Esper: Effect of uncertainty in instrumental data on reconstructed temperature amplitude for the European Alps	38
J. Esper, U. Büntgen, D.C. Frank, D. Nievergelt, K. Treydte & A. Verstege: Multiple tree-ring parameters from Atlas cedar (Morocco) and their climatic signal	46
D. Frank, J. Esper & E. Cook: On Variance Adjustments in Tree-Ring Chronology Development	56
B. Neuwirth, F.H. Schweingruber & M. Winiger: Interannual climate/growth-relations of Central European tree rings - A dendroecological network analysis	67
D. Ogrin: Tree rings and climate in sub-mediteranean Slovenia	77
O.V. Sidorova, M.M. Naurzbaev & E.A. Vaganov: An integral estimation of tree-ring chronologies from subarctic regions of Eurasia	84
M. Sigl: Dendroclimatic Investigations in Asir Mountains – Saudi Arabia. Preliminary Report	92
M. Staudinger & H. Strunk: Dendroclimatic research in Western Siberia – The reconstruction of temperature and precipitation since the 16th century	99
G. Weber & K.F. Kaiser: Dendrochronological records of late Holocene and recent glacier fluctuations of Eagle, Herbert, and Mendenhall Glaciers, Southeast Alaska	107

SECTION 3 ECOLOGY

A. Bär, J. Löffler & A. Bräuning: Methodological approach for dendroecological analysis of dwarf shrubs - A contribution to ecosystem reconstructions in the Norwegian Scandes	114
B.A. Black & M.D. Abrams: An evaluation of boundary-line release criteria for eleven North American tree species	120
A. Bräuning & I. Burchardt: Detection of growth dynamics in tree species of a tropical mountain rain forest in southern Ecuador	127
A. Cedro: Influence of thermic and pluvial conditions on the radial increments of Pseudotsuga menziesii Franco from Western Pomerania, Poland	131
N.M. Devi: Climate driven height growth change of multistem trees of Siberian larch in the Polar Ural mountains	140
D. Friedrichs, B. Neuwirth & H. Gottschling: Dendroecological Analysis of Growth Anomalies in Walnut Forests in Southern Kyrgyzstan	144
H.P. Kahle: Impact of the drought in 2003 on intra- and inter-annual stem radial growth of beech and spruce along an altitudinal gradient in the Black Forest, Germany	151
M. Panayotov & S. Yurukov: Dendroecological analysis of the influence of strong winds and snow accumulation on the growth of trees at the treeline in Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria	164
O. Rößler, J. Löffler & A. Bräuning: The use of dendroecological methods in a landscape-ecological approach on upper treeline fluctuations	174
N. Schmitz, A. Verheyden, F. De Ridder, H. Beeckman & N. Koedam: Hydraulic architecture of the mangrove Rhizophora mucronata under different salinity and flooding conditions	179
N. Zafirov: Dendroecological analysis of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands in Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria	187

SECTION 4 GEOMORPHOLOGY

O. Hitz, H. Gärtner, I. Heinrich. & M. Monbaron: Reconstruction of Erosion Rates in Swiss Mountain Torrents	196
I. Malik: Extreme rainfall events as a triggering mechanism for erosion analysed by means of anatomical changes in exposed roots in permanent gullies (southern Poland)	203
M. Matyja: The role of flood events in mid-mountain river-bed transformation dated by anatomical changes in exposed roots	213
M. Santilli & M. Pelfini: Debris flow activity and relevant effects on the tree radial growth - An example from the Central Italian Alps	223

SECTION 5 ARCHAEOLOGY

M. Gurskaya: Preliminary tree-ring dating of historical wood from Ust-Voykar settlement (15th-20th Century), Northwestern Siberia	236
G. Lambert, S. Durost & J. Cuaz: 2500 years from dendrochronology back to ancient French human biotopes. Trees studied: low altitude oaks	244

SECTION 6 ISOTOPES

O. Planells, L. Andreu, O. Bosch, E. Gutiérrez, M. Filot, M. Leuenberger, G. Helle & G.H. Schleser: The potential of stable isotopes to record aridity conditions in a forest with lowsensitive ring widths from the eastern Pre-Pyrenees	266
K. Treydte et al. (corresponding author, list suppressed): The European Isotope Network ISONET: First Results	273
K. Weidner, G. Helle, J. Löffler, B. Neuwirth & G. H. Schleser: The reaction of d13C, d18O and ring width on Larch Budmoth (Zeiraphera diniana Gn.) outbreaks in the European Larch (Larix decidua Mill.) – A case study in the Lötschental, Switzerland	281

SECTION 7 NEW APPLICATIONS

H. Gärtner & C. Denier: Application of a 3D Laser scanning device to acquire the structure of whole root systems- A pilot study	288
I. Heinrich, H. Gärtner & M. Monbaron: Different forms of tension wood in alder and beech in relation to mechanical stress - Preliminary results	295
I. Heinrich: Higher nutrient-levels in tree rings of Eucalyptus grandis following a wildfire	300