We are monitoring and altering xylogenesis (the phenology of wood formation) to understand how trees form wood as related to other growth components (primary and root growth), to infer how xylogenesis is controlled by disturbances (climate, drought, logging, nitrogen availability) and to understand how growth sinks...
We aim to reconstruct past climate and forest dynamics (growth, mortality, functioning) using dendrochronological proxies (tree-ring width, density, C and O isotope discrimination). We want to answer questions on past and current responses of forests to climate and other disturbances (anthropogenic use) to link ecological and...
We use tree-rings to reconstruct the dynamics (age, growth rates, survival rates) of timber tree species in managed tropical dry forests. We aim to combine dendrochronology and matrix modelling for performing demographic estimates of the main timber tree species in a selectively logged forest (INPA,...
To determine how radial growth responds to disturbances (climate, anthropogenic historical use, insect outbreaks, fungi, mistletoe) in woody plant species (trees, shrubs). To find out how these changes in growth translate into functional changes in vigor (forest decline) and dynamics (masting, regeneration, establishment, mortality, succession,...