Dendrochronological archives in the tropics of the Americas have been under-studied for a long time. Some of the challenges include the Identification of tree-ring boundaries in certain tree species, absence of winter dormancy associated to low temperatures in most of the cases, and logistic difficulties of fieldwork in remote sites. However, part of the slow progress is also related to the fact that historically much less resources have been inv...

In this presentation we discuss the current status of tree-ring research in the neotropical Americas outside of México. The most relevant findings are discussed, including the region-wide wet season precipitation signal associated with large-scale tropical atmospheric dynamics. Our analysis suggests that local climate response patterns vary between sites, with the strongest correlations ranging from the previous summer to the current spring. Correlations with accumulation of daily precipit...