1. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Types of Wood
Coniferous Difuse Porous Ring Porous

2. Softwood (coniferous trees) Hardwood diffuse porous (deciduous trees)
Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Softwood
(coniferous trees)
Hardwood
diffuse porous
(deciduous trees)
Hardwood
ring-porous
(deciduous trees)

3. Picea Pinus Taxus Tsuga smithiana walichiana baccata dumosa
Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Picea Pinus Taxus Tsuga
smithiana walichiana baccata dumosa

4. General Ring Structure
Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
General Ring Structure

5. Abies spectabilis Cupressus torulosa Juniperus recurva
Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Abies spectabilis Cupressus torulosa Juniperus recurva

6. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
False Ring
Cells leading into the false ring will gradually decrease in size and then gradually increase back to earlywood cells.

7. Definitions:_
Parenchyma: thin walled tissue concerned primarily with the
storage and distribution of carbohydrates.
Terminal Parenchyma: the last parenchyma formed in a
years growth. In some diffuse porous species it is all that
Appears to denote the limit of a ring.
Tree-Ring: The annual increment of zylem growth
produced around a trees’ circumference in one year.
Earlywood: springwood. The xylem cells formed during
The beginning of the growing season.
Latewood: the xylem cells formed during the mid-end of
The growing season.
Resin Canals: tubular space surrounded by secreting
cells bearing resin in certain softwoods.
Traumatic Resin Canals: resin canals supposedly arising
From injury.
Annual Increment: The radial xylem growth produced
in a single year. Commonly measured to the nearest
0.001 mm.

8. Rhododendron Acer Sorbus arboreum pectinatum microphylla
Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Rhododendron Acer Sorbus
arboreum pectinatum microphylla

9. Betula Castanopsis Quercus Juglans utilis hystrix semicarpifolia regia
Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Betula Castanopsis Quercus Juglans
utilis hystrix semicarpifolia regia

10. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Oak Ring Structure.
Oaks rarely have missing rings but they can have very compressed growth.

11. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Offset Across Rays
Oak often exhibits an offset in the rings across rays.

12. Definitions:_
Limiting Factors: Conditions of a trees environment that
Have the most control on the rate at which a tree grows.
When all limiting factors
are sufficient growth is
unimpeded, when any
single limiting factor
falls below or near the
minimum requirement
for a tree species in a
specific environment
then growth of the tree
is negatively effected.

13. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Auxin Model
Growth hormone is produced in the canopy of the tree and trickles down the trunk initiating ring growth around the stem.

14. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Locally Absent Rings
Rings may be locally absent along the length of the tree.

15. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Terminal height growth
Tree ring diameter growth

16. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
The influence of climate.

17. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Tree growth throughout the year.

18. valley mountain north south
Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth:__________________________ ________
The role of climate.
valley mountain
north
south

19. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth:__________________________ ________
Climate response model Eastern White Cedar Québec, Canada
Temperature Precipitation
Interior Cliff Shore

20. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth:__________________________ ________
Climate response model …Mogan Ridge. USA

21. Definitions:_________________________________________________
False Ring: an incomplete start of final latewood development.
Locally Absent Ring: (LAR) an incomplete growth layer.
Time Series: An orderly sequence of events or measurements
that may change over time.
Biological Growth Curve:
The average radial growth
of as tree as measured over
time.
Indices: Relative annual
growth variations that
no longer vary with the
age of tree.

22. Definitions:_________________________________________________
Chronology: A time series of mean growth measurements
from a specific site and species.
Master Chronology: A precisely dated mean chronology.
Climate: Seasonal conditions of precipitation and temp-
erature measured in months or years or centuries.
Response Model: percent climate expressed in tree-rings.
Paleoclimate: Past climate prior to instrumental record
keeping.
Paleomaterial: Preserved specimens of datable material
that can be used in building longer chronologies than
one can build from living trees.

23. Wood Anatomy and Tree Growth: ________
Complacent and
sensitive tree-ring growth.

24. Definitions:_
Standardization: The process by which the biological
growth curve is removed from the individual raw ring width
measurements producing a
new time series of index
values (indices). These
dimensionless values of year
to year variation are commonly
calculated either by division or
subtraction of a raw annual
increment by the mean biological growth curve value for the
same year (e.g., It = Rt/Gt ).