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 tropical environments of central America, tree-ring forming species are rare to find, especially in areas with pronounced aseasonality, but wood anatomical traits can equally provide important information on species life-histories and response to disturbances. Dating wood anatomical structures remains a crucial task to decipher the ecological information recorded in xylem cellular parameters in absence of defined ring boundaries, particularly to observe the footprint of discrete disturb...

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