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Using Dendrochronology To Determine The Growth Of A Tree

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Trees rings are rings within the trunk of the tree. A method that scientist use to analysis the pattern of the growth of a tree is known as Dendrochronology. The way that tree rings are produced, is during growth season the trunk grows thicker that produces a new layer of wood (United States Environmental Protection Agency). Paleoclimatologist use tree-rings to analysis the climate changes and the health of the forest or the environment around it. Each of the rings is consist with a year of growth and tell scientist how long the tree has been around. Scientist determines if the tree had a good growth rate by looking at the thickness of the rings. If the ring is thin then there that most likely means that there wasn’t a lot of growth, which means that it could be a number of things that prevent the growth of the tree such as not a lot of precipitation, or just simply a period of droughts. Trees have many basic patterns of growth such as in conifers reproductive cambium cells form large, thin-walled earlywood tracheid during primarily serve …show more content…

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