Latin American Dendroecology Combining Tree-Ring Sciences and Ecology in a Megadiverse Territory

The abundance of “New World” tree species with dendrochronological potential constitutes an ideal opportunity to improve the ecological state of knowledge regarding these diverse forest types, which are often threatened by several impacts such as logging or conversion to agricultural lands. Thus, detailed information on the dendroecology of these species will improve our understanding of forests in the face of global change. Accordingly, this book identifies numerous relevant ecological processes and scales, ranging from tree species to populations and communities, and from both dendrochronological and dendroecological perspectives. It offers a valuable reference guide for the exploration of long-term ecological interactions between trees and their environmental conditions, and will foster further research and international projects on the continent and elsewhere.

Chapter 2 - Drought is a driving factor of seasonal growth of Pinus strobiformis Engelm. in northern Mexico

Chapter 3 - Dendroecological studies with Cedrela odorata L., Northeastern Brazil

Chapter 4 - Xylogenesis explains climate- growth relationships in a Mexican conifer

Section II - Dendroecology in Neotropical regions

Chapter 5 - Dendrochronological potential of tree species from America's rainiest region

Chapter 6 - Potential of Tropical Dry Forest trees species: anatomy, chronologies and environment

Chapter 7 - Tree-growth variations along environmental gradients in tropical montane forests of South America.

Section III - Forest dynamics, climate and disturbances

Chapter 8 - Forest dynamics in the Patagonian Andes: Lessons learned from dendroecology

Chapter 9 - Historical fire regimes in high-elevation tropical forests

Chapter 10 - Patterns of tree establishment following glacier-induced floods in southern Patagonia

Chapter 11 - Dendrochronological reconstruction of Ormiscodes amphimone outbreaks in Nothofagus pumilio forests from Southern Patagonia, Argentina

Chapter 12 - Dendroecology in Polylepis forests in the tropical Andes: modeling of the radial growth of the last centuries and its implications for its conservation

Section IV - Forest management and conservation

Chapter 13 - Dendrochronological study of the xeric and mesic Araucaria araucana forests of northern Patagonia: implications for the Ecology and Conservation

Chapter 14 - Dendroecology applied to silvicultural management in the Southern Patagonian forests: a case of study from an experimental forest in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Chapter 16 - Long-term decoupling between growth and water-use efficiency and its implications for the conservation of old-growth conifer forests in southern Chileong-term decoupling between growth and water-use efficiency and its implications for the conservation of old-growth conifer forests in southern Chile

Dr. J. Julio (Chechu) Camarero is a researcher at the Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain. He leads the dendroecology and forest ecology group at the CSIC, where he has established both national and international collaborative networks. An expert on dendroecology and forest ecology, his main research interests include understanding the growth, mortality and recruitment patterns in woody plant communities, particularly forests. He has published more than 250 SCI papers and several book chapters, chiefly in the areas of: forest dieback, treeline dynamics, tree responses to biotic stressors (defoliating insects, fungal pathogens) and xylogenesis (phenology of radial growth).