Tree-Ring Talk

Tree-Ring Talk **Fall Kick-off Event**

Join us for the Kick-off event for the Autumn 2024 Tree-Ring Talk series

WISDOM OF THE RINGS: The living journals of Trees

Everywhere in the natural world, circles, spirals and rings frame integral structures that support, envelop and unveil animate and inanimate entities. These sinuous forms call to mind the slow rhythm of a heartbeat, the concentric waves of a stone dropped in water, or the meditative effect of walking a labyrinth. They also echo how early memory is stored within our own psyches, perhaps buried but never lost beneath subsequent layers of experience. 

Environmental drivers’ threat for Acadian redfish revealed by growth chronology

Biological productivity and food webs on the Flemish Cap are influenced by the position of the boundary between the Labrador Current and the North Atlantic (Gulf Stream) current.

Climate change, wildfire, and landscape homogenization in Western Canada

Wildfire is the most important disturbance agent in forests of Western Canada, affecting stand structure and composition, biodiversity, biogeochemical cycling, hydrologic processes, and natural resource extraction.  Despite considerable research, consensus on the frequency and severity of historical fire occurrence has been elusive in much of the Canadian Cordillera.  Some of this uncertainty derives from epistemological differences between influential researchers in the discipline, but much derives from methodological limitations.  One area of parti

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