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Forestry 1951 24(1):22-35;
© 1951 by Institute of Chartered Foresters
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A STUDY OF GROWTH RINGS IN TREES

PART I. Review and Discussion of Recent Work

C. G. DOBBS

University College of North Wales Bangor

Some key references from the considerable literature on the subject are cited and some discussed in full as a background to this paper which is mainly concerned with work done since dock's review of 1941, and with work in Great Britain not hitherto reviewed. It is pointed out that systematic study has been largely undertaken by archaeologists and climatologists with definite ends in view rather than by foresters, and that the pioneer work of Douglass on the yellow pine in the dry climate of North Arizona which established a high degree of correlation between ring-width and rainfall has resulted in spite of warnings in focusing undue attention on this. The work of Lowther, Salisbury and Jane, and of E. W. Jones in Great Britain and of Weakly and of Will in the United States of America is also discussed. It is considered that outside the region where rainfall can be shown to be the limiting factor in tree growth, the use of the single quantitative character of width is unreliable. In the study of growth rings in European larch which follows as Part II in a future issue of this Journal, it has been found possible to identify and date the annual growth layers by means of their qualitative characters and to simplify the growth pattern for presentation in terms of the frequency of multiplegrowth layers within the annual increment.

Received 1 December 1949.
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