Authors
J Altman, P Fibich, J Dolezal, T Aakala
Publication date
2014/1/1
Journal
Dendrochronologia
Volume
32
Issue
2
Pages
107-112
Publisher
Urban & Fischer
Description
Studies using tree-rings to reconstruct forest disturbance dynamics are common and their number has been increasing in the recent years. Despite the evident need for a common set of tools for verification, replication and comparison across studies, only a few DOS programmes for disturbance detection exist and they are for limited purposes only. Currently, the ideal statistical environment for the task is R, which is becoming the primary tool for various types of tree-ring analyses. This has led to the development of TRADER (Tree Ring Analysis of Disturbance Events in R), an open-source software package for R that provides an analysis of tree growth history for disturbance reconstructions. We have implemented four methods, which are commonly used for the detection of disturbance events: radial-growth averaging criteria developed by Nowacki and Abrams, 1997, the boundary-line method (Black and Abrams …
Scholar articles
J Altman, P Fibich, J Dolezal, T Aakala - Dendrochronologia, 2014