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...

Exploring new study sites and potential species is still a fundamental step in tropical dendrochronology. The results of exploratory field campaigns usually reflect the intrinsic biodiversity of the tropics: a plethora of wood anatomy variation and seemly true tree-ring boundaries. Often, some species are excluded during the process of selecting the best species due to indistinct or rather unclear tree-ring delimitation, aside from the difficult task to discriminate the commonly found fals...

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