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Useful
Databases for Dendrochronology
The
International Tree-Ring Data Bank
One of the premier paleoclimatic databases in the world, the ITRDB
contains measurements and tree-ring chronologies from over 1500 sites
around the world, from over 100 tree species. This site will allow you to
easily access and download one or more of these data sets. You can search
by site name, tree species, contributor, chronology type, and geographic
coordinates. Information is also provided to help you contribute your own
tree-ring data sets, which we strongly encourage!
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The
Bibliography of Dendrochronology
Containing over 10,000 citations for articles, books, theses, and book
chapters relevant to dendrochronology, this database was created by
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer of the Department of Geography, University of
Tennessee, and placed online by Michele Kaennel Dobbertin
of the Forest Ecosystems and Ecological
Risks Section, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape
Research. You can search by author, keywords, species, site information,
and language.
The
Dendrochronology Species Database
First published in 1993 by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer in the Tree-Ring
Bulletin, this database provides information about key tree and shrub
species used in tree-ring research. Common names, Latin names and
authority, and synonymy are provided. The searchable database was placed
online with the help of Michele Kaennel Dobbertin of the Forest Ecosystems
and Ecological Risks Section, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and
Landscape Research.
Multilingual
Glossary of Dendrochronology
Developed by Michèle Kaennel Dobbertin
of Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL in
Birmensdorf, the glossary contains definitions (and much more!) of 351
terms in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. It is
adapted from the Multilingual Glossary of Dendrochronology (1995, Haupt
Verlag in Berne, Switzerland). Users will most certainly like the scanned
images of the 120 original figures.
The
International Multiproxy Paleofire Database
The purpose of the IMPD is to "create a broadly-accessible online
database of fire history derived from paleoenvironmental proxy data, which
will enhance our understanding of the relationships between fire and
climate (drought in particular) and provide a basis for long-term fire
predictions." Much of the data is derived from fire event series,
using fire-scar chronologies from multiple sites in North and South
America. Also contained in the IMPD are tree-ring based data sets that
provide information on stand development.
Euro
Catalog: Database of European chronologies
This catalog provides information on metadata for important tree-ring data
sets that are archived by numerous laboratories throughout Europe. Note
that the actual tree-ring data are not provided, but instead you should
contact the individuals or laboratories listed and ask them whether you
can access their data. You can search for one or more tree species, data
held by certain laboratories, or search data by historical periods.
Bibliography
of Canadian Tree-Ring Research
This is a searchable bibliography
created and archived by Dr.
Dan Smith of the University
of Victoria Tree-Ring Laboratory for the Canadian
Dendrochronology Research Group. You can
search by author, year (equals, before, and after), article title, source,
and keywords. The results also supply an abstract is one is available. An
awesome bibliography and one that is certainly invaluable to our field.
Inside
Wood
I believe this could be one of the
most useful plant anatomy or wood science web sites for both education and
research that has ever been developed. The Inside Wood site will have
broad research appeal to scientists (wood anatomists, botanists, and
biologists, to name a few), to land resource and conservation managers, to
K-12 and university students, and to the general public. The comprehensive
inclusion of internationally accepted definitions and criteria for
identifying wood samples is extremely helpful and simultaneously
educational.
The
Gymnosperm Database
Created and developed by Chris J. Earle, this database allow you to choose
among the different families, such as Pinaceae, then view the
information for each taxon using the numerous descriptive fields, such as
common names, description, range, oldest, and dendrochronology.
The
ITRDB Address Database
Compiled by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, this database contains the addresses
for over 900 researchers who have practiced or currently are practicing
dendrochronology. Also provided are phone and fax numbers and web
addresses, if available. Note: email addresses are not provided to
prevent unwanted spam from unscrupulous email harvesters.
Online
Climate Data from the NCDC
The National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina, provides
an immense amount of climate data readily accessible and ready for
downloading. Data are provided for individual stations and for broader
regions.
The
Global Plant Checklist
This plant checklist is my primary database for obtaining information on
vascular plants. It contains information for 160,000 plants, including
authority, citations, database source, geographic location, and synonymy.
The best database I've found for vascular plant names.
Links
for Palaeobotanists
These comprehensive web pages were developed by Klaus-Peter Kelber of the
Mineralogisches Institut, Universität Würzburg. Well-organized into
seven separate pages, this site provides information relevant to
dendrochronologists, such as Palaeoclimate, Plant Anatomy, Palynology,
Teaching Documents, Permineralized Plants and Petrified Forests, and
Systematics, Taxonomy and Cladistics.
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