Two stem core samples of 12 to 20 trees outside the plot of each main species in the plot were taken at breast height (1.3 m above ground) with a SUUNTO corer. Tree ring width and density were determined with the instruments CATRAS and TSAP, the Densitometer DENDRO 2003 and a stereo-microscope. The selected trees included at least 12 pre-dominant or dominant trees and if possible also 4 subdominant or surpressed trees. NOTE: The samplings were carried out between 1996 and 1999 for most plots and in 2003 for the plot Lantsch. The cores cover a time span depending on the age of the oldest trees on a plot. On one plot the oldest sampled tree ring grew in the year 1646.

Purpose:

Reconstruction of stand history and tree growth

Manual Citation:

• Paolo Cherubini, Matthias Dobbertin, 1997: Bestandesgeschichte (Dendrochronologie). In: Peter Brang (ed.), Aufnahmeanleitung LWF. Langfristige Waldökosystem-Forschung LWF, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL, Birmensdorf, 3 S.

• Cherubini, P.; Dobbertin, M., 1998: The Swiss long-term forest ecosystem research: methods for reconstructing forest history. In: Borghetti, M. (ed): Società Italiana di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale (SISEF), Atti I: 19-22.

Paper Citation:

• Cherubini, P., Fontana, G., Rigling, D., Dobbertin, M., Brang, P., Innes, J.L., 2002. Tree-life history prior to death: two fungal root pathogens affect tree-ring growth differently. J. Ecol. 90, 839-850.