Building a Chronology from Compression Wood Yearly Records: Some Methodological Coordinates

Abstract

Unlocking the trees’ reactions archive, tracked in the structure’s anomalies by morphostructural potential stimuli, imposes the adoption of some dendrochronology particular protocols. There are methodically presented the necessary operations for sampling activities of the necessary data needed for events reconstruction which influenced (are the origin of) the compression wood emergence, as well as samples preparing for determinations, growth rings translating into digital format, cross-dating and growth rings series standardization (assisted by software packages such as WinDENDRO and STATISTICA). In order to transpose the compression wood to dendrochronological coordinates, there are proposed specific indexes.