Scientific Seminar

We cordially invite to the Scientific Seminar hosted by the Centre for Climate Change Research,  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) . The lecture entitled: ‘Stable isotopes in tree rings’  will be presented by Prof. Dr. Iain Roberston, Department of Geography, Swansea University, Wales, Great Britain. The lecture will be conducted in hybrid form: 1. Onsite: Room 371, Department of Meteorology and Climatology, NCU, Lwowska 1, Toruń, 2. MS Teams platform on 25th June 2025, 5 p.m. CEST (UTC +02:00).

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Image credit: Fig. 1.1 Schematic representation of interplay between environmental factors and ecophysiology that produces tree-ring C-H-O isotope composition. Environment can influence the ecophysiological, biochemical, and physicochemical mechanisms responsible for producing the isotope composition and consequently isotope dendrochronology can be used to infer environment and ecological events affecting ecophysiology (e.g., insect outbreaks). Tree rings allow identification of changes through time, but if a network of sites is sampled, the tree-ring isotope results can also reveal changes in space (isoscapes). Source of the figure: Leavitt S. W., Roden J. 2022. Isotope Dendrochronology: Historical Perspective (in:) R. T. W. Siegwolf et al. (eds.), Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings, Tree Physiology 8, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92698-4_1 p. 3-20. This chapter and images are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License