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Nga Rauemi Dendrochronolgy

I konei ka kitea e koe nga hononga ki nga whakahaere whakakai-rakau & consortia, nga hononga ki nga pukapuka awhina, nga hononga ki nga hautaka whakakai-rakau, me nga momo taputapu me nga waahi mo te matauranga rakau-mowhiti.

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Nga Roopu-mowhiti me nga hononga a Dendro

Ko te Tree-Ring Society (TRS) he roopu putaiao o te ao kare-painga kua whakatapua ki te rangahau dendrochronological me te maatauranga. 

Ko nga whainga o TRS ko:

  • Whakatairangahia te rangahau mowhiti-rakau me te whanaketanga mahi mo te hapori dendrochronology o te ao

  • Whakaratohia he huinga mo te whakawhitiwhiti korero ma te tautoko i nga whakaritenga o nga huihuinga o te ao, awheawhe, me nga wiki mara. 

  • Whakaputahia nga rangahau dendrochronological kua arotakehia e nga hoa i roto i ta maatau pukapuka Rangahau Rakau-Ring

  • Whakawhanuihia nga matauranga mo te dendrochronology ki etahi atu marautanga me te iwi whanui

Huihuinga mo te Rangahau Mowhiti Rakau (ATR)

Ko te Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR) he whakahaere putaiao o te ao e whai ana ki te whakatairanga i te rangahau mo nga mowhiti rakau, te matauranga me te toro atu ki te iwi. E whai ana te ATR ki te whakatairanga i nga kaupapa rangahau, ki te hanga piriti, ki te whakahaere i te whakawhitiwhiti matauranga i waenga i nga momo marautanga putaiao e mahi ana me nga mowhiti rakau me nga waahi o te putaiao (hei tauira, ngaherehere, whaipara tangata, hurihanga rauropi o te ao). He kaha te whakapumautanga o te Rooputanga ki te whakawhanui i nga matauranga mo te dendrochronology ki te iwi whanui, me te whakakaha i nga korero kaupapa here me te putaiao.

Ko te Q-NET he whatunga e whakakotahi ana i nga tohunga e whakamahi ana i te Quantitative Wood Anatomy (QWA) i roto i nga momo horopaki penei i te archaeobotany, dendrosciences, ecophysiology, ngahere rauropi, whakahaere ngahere, tiaki ngahere,  geosciences, koiora rakau me te kounga rakau.

Nga Whainga o te IAWA :

  • ki te whakamohiotanga ki te waahi o te tinana rakau i roto i nga mahi putaiao, hangarau me te tiaki i nga rawa taiao, hei painga mo te iwi;

  • ki te whakawhiti whakaaro me nga korero ma nga reta me nga hui;

  • kia pai ai te kohikohi, te rokiroki me te whakawhiti i nga rauemi rangahau;

  • ki te whakarato i nga turanga whaitake mo te whakamahi riterite o nga kupu i roto i nga whakaahuatanga o te rakau me te kiri, me te mahi tahi me etahi atu he rite nga whainga i roto i etahi atu mara e pa ana ki te tinana tipu;

  • ki te whakaihiihi i te whakaputanga o nga tuhinga putaiao e pa ana ki te tinana rakau me nga mara e pa ana (tae atu ki te kiri kiri, "woody" monocotyledons);

  • ki te whakatenatena me te awhina i te ako me te whakaako i nga ahuatanga o te rakau me nga waahi e pa ana;

  • ki te whakatairanga rangahau i roto i te tinana rakau me nga mara e pa ana, me te uru ki etahi atu mahi e rite ana ki nga whainga o te Roopu.

I-BIND is an international consortium of tree-ring scientists who focus on the application and improvement of the BI (Blue Intensity) method for dendrochronology.

  • To promote the methods of BI generation of Tree-Ring Laboratories around the globe and encourage standard protocols and best practice

  • To encourage the further development of the BI methodology through workshops and collaboration

  • To encourage collaboration for the creation of regional networks of BI chronologies – not just from temperature limited woodland locations, but also from more moisture stressed limited sites at low elevations/latitudes.

  • To explore the utilisation of BI for historical dating and dendro-provenancing

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Dendro Consortia

Kua whakauhia te Ancient Cross Timbers Consortium ki te whakakotahi i nga whare matauranga, nga tari kawanatanga, nga whakahaere tiaki whenua, me nga tangata takitahi e pa ana ki nga huarahi rangahau, matauranga, me nga waahi tiaki e whakaatuhia ana e nga toenga ngahere tipu tawhito i roto i tenei rauropi. Kua whakaritea e te Consortium he whatunga ahurei o te rangahau mahi tahi i nga waahi taiao i nga toenga o Cross Timbers tawhito e toro atu ana puta noa i te 700 maero mai i te tonga-tonga o Kansas ki te tonga o Texas.

​Ko te Ancient Bald Cypress Consortium (ABCC) e whakakotahi ana i nga whare matauranga, nga tari kawanatanga, nga whakahaere tiaki whenua, nga kaipupuri whenua motuhake, me nga tangata takitahi ki te mapi me te tiaki i nga whenua repo kauri pakira tawhito e toe ana mo te rangahau, te matauranga, me te tiaki.

Ko te Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium he utu mo nga korero putaiao ahi. He mea putea e te Hootaka Putaiao Ahi ahi, ko ta matou whainga ko te whakanui ake i te waatea me te whai whakaaro ki nga korero pūtaiao ahi pono ki te hunga e whakatau ana i te whakahaere whenua.

The ShrubHub is a research network of 125+ scientists investigating changes in woody vegetation in Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems. This network was established to foster communication between researchers working in tundra ecosystems around the Arctic and to promote data synthesis.

ShrubringHub: GitHub repository for the ShrubHub growth ring database.

Purpose: We combined individual datasets of shrub growth from sites around the tundra biome to explore the climate sensitivity of shrub growth.

Abstract: This dataset consists of tundra shrub growth data from 37 arctic and alpine sites in 9 countries, including 25 species, and ~42 000 annual growth records from 1821 individuals.

Ka whakawhiwhia e te Hokowhitu Pūtaiao Ahi Ahi te rangahau putaiao mo nga ahi mohoao me te tohatoha i nga hua hei awhina i nga kaihanga kaupapa here, nga kaiwhakahaere ahi me nga kaimahi ki te whakatau tika.

E kaha ana a FRAMES ki te whakarato i te watea, te whakawhiti nahanaha o nga korero me nga hangarau i roto i te hapori rangahau ahi ahi mohoao me te whakahaere.

Ko FRAMES kei roto i te Tari o Ngahere Rangeland, me te Fire Sciences i te Whare Wananga o Idaho College of Natural Resources i Moscow, Idaho.

Ko te kaupapa FRAMES he putea e te Kaupapa Putaiao Ahi, Whara, me te Paoa i te USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Ko te kaupapa o te DendroEcological Network (DEN) ko te whakarato i tetahi putunga ipurangi mo nga raraunga rauropi ngahere ngahere e hono ana, me te tuku hanganga ipurangi mo te kitenga, te torotoro, me te tiri i aua raraunga. E waatea ana te tomokanga raraunga ki te iwi whanui ka taea e te tangata e whai waahi ana ki te ipurangi te whakamahi me te whai waahi. Kia mau tonu ai te kaha o te rauemi katoa, i tenei wa ka whakawhäitihia te DEN ki te whakaae ki nga huingararaunga kei roto nga uho kua whakawhitia te ra.

The UK Oak Project is an inter-disciplinary project investigating the physical and chemical properties of oak tree-rings to advance science-based dating in archaeology and the study of past, contemporary and future climatic change.

 

The research team comprises scientists from the Department of Geography, Swansea University and the University of Oxford's Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art.

FireScience.gov is your one-stop source to access fire science information, resources and funding announcements for scientists, fire practitioners and decision makers.

We are committed to improving your access to fire science information. On this site, you can:

  • Apply for funding

  • Read summaries of research to stay up-to-date

  • Register for events like conferences and webinars

  • Connect with scientists and managers in your area through our Fire Science Exchange Network

Fire Networks resources are organized so that you can filter by network (Fire Networks, Fire Learning Network, Rx Fire Training Exchange: TREX/WTREX, Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, Indigenous Peoples Burning Network) or resource type (Fact Sheet/Program Report, Tool/Toolkit, Publication, Video/Webinar).

The resources include more information about the networks, tools, and guides developed by members, as well as other resources that members and other practitioners may find useful.

The Cultural Burning Knowledge Hub is a place to find information about how
Traditional Owners use fire in the landscape.


The Hub provides links to a range of documents, websites, organisations and events.

Eastern Alpine and Dinaric Society for Vegetation Ecology was established in 1960 with an aim to stimulate the cross-border cooperation for studies of vegetation. The society organises meetings every second year. The meeting is not opened only to members, but also to other researches interested in flora and vegetation of the region.

NFZ.forestnet is a European research and higher education network which gathers French, German and Swiss institutions working on forestry, forest ecosystem and forest-related products. It aims at creating and developing collaborative research and education projects.

NFZ.forestnet was created in 2006. The network is composed of 7 institutions, universities and research centres, in Nancy, Freiburg, and Zurich. All in all, 700 researchers and professors work in NFZ.forestnet member institutions.

IUFRO is a non-profit, non-governmental international network of forest scientists, which promotes global cooperation in forest-related research and enhances the understanding of the ecological, economic and social aspects of forests and trees. IUFRO is "the" global network for forest science cooperation. It unites more than 15,000 scientists in around 650 Member Organizations in over 125 countries, and is a member of ICSU. Scientists cooperate in IUFRO on a voluntary basis. More about IUFRO

Biologisch-Archaeologisch Platform is an independent platform of biological-archaeological specialists in archaeology. The BAP promotes research, education, communication and integration of biological-archaeological research within archaeology.

The BAP also actively participates in the renewal of the archaeological system and the discussion about certification and the role of bio-archaeological specialties within certification. Together with SAMPL  (the platform for specialists in archaeological material), BAP has a seat in the Central College of Experts in Archaeology (CCvD). The BAP also takes an active part in the Groot Reuvens consultation.

In accordance with the decision of the former Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction (IATF/DR) of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN) and the UNISDR Wildland Fire Advisory Group (WFAG) were created in 2004 under the auspices of UNISDR. The GWFN provides an umbrella of 14 independent Regional Wildland Fire Networks of different / individual origins and mandates. Its mission is to:

  • Reduce the negative impacts of landscape fires on the environment and humanity

  • Advance the knowledge and application of the ecologically and environmentally benign role of natural fire in fire-dependent ecosystems, and sustainable application of fire in land-use systems.

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Raraunga Raraunga & Hononga

Ko te Ratonga Raraunga o te Ao mo te Paleoclimatology e whakahaere ana i te International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), te purongo nui rawa atu o te ao mo nga raraunga mowhiti rakau.  Na te Komiti Tohutohu a te ITRDB te tirotiro. Kei roto i te ITRDB te whanui whakakai mata, te kiato rakau, te inenga inenga, me nga taurangi taurangi tipu o te waahi mai i te neke atu i te 5,000 nga waahi o nga whenua e ono. Kei te waatea ano nga tawhā huarere kua hangaia mo etahi waahi.

Ka rangahauhia e te Dendrochronology nga whanui mowhiti rereke o ia tau i roto i te rakau. Ko nga tauira whakakai rakau i roto i te rakau mai i nga taonga tuku iho he korero ahurei mo nga waa o mua, te ohanga hapori, te whenua o mua me ona whakamahinga, te rangi me te hangarau rakau. Ko te DCCD he putunga mamati me te whare pukapuka tauwhitiwhiti o nga raraunga whakakai-rakau. Ka whakawhanakehia ona ihirangi ma te rangahau, me etahi atu: nga waahi whaipara tangata (tae atu ki nga whenua tawhito), nga pakaru kaipuke, nga whare, nga taonga, nga peita, nga whakairo me nga taonga puoro. Ko te DCCD kei runga i te Paerewa Raraunga Rakau-Ring (TRiDaS) ka taea te huri i etahi atu whakatakotoranga raraunga kua whakamahia nuitia. Kei roto ko nga raupapa inenga mowhiti-rakau mamati me nga waarangi toharite, me o raatau metadata whakamaarama me te whakamaori. Ka taea e nga kaikoha te whakahaere me te whakahaere i te uru ki o raatau raraunga.

​Ko te International Multiproxy Paleofire Database (IMPD) he purongo o nga raraunga hitori o te ahi i ahu mai i nga takawaenga taiao penei i nga whiu rakau me nga rekoata waro me te parataiao. I whakatüria te IMPD me te aratakina mai i te poari tohutohu ki te whakarato i tetahi putunga pumau mo nga rekoata paleofire kounga teitei mai i te ao katoa. Mo etahi atu korero mo nga raraunga paleofire, tirohia to maatau Whakataki ki te Hanganga Hītori Ahi .

Ko matou te mana matua o te Motu (USA) mo nga raraunga taiao, me te whakahaere i tetahi o nga purongo nui rawa atu mo te rangahau hau, takutai moana, matawhenua me te moana o te ao. Ka whai waahi a NCEI ki te kaupapa NESDIS ma te whakawhanake i nga hua me nga ratonga hou e toro atu ana ki nga tikanga putaiao me te pai ake o te rapu raraunga. 

Ko tenei papakupu ipurangi i urutau mai i te Papakupu Rere-ma-reo o Dendrochronology (1995). Kei roto te whakamaramatanga me te whakamaoritanga o nga kupu 351 i roto i nga reo e 7: Ingarihi, Tiamana, Wīwī, Paniora, Itari, Potiti me Ruhia.

Ko te Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) he kaupapa umanga maha i hoahoatia kia rite tonu te mahere i te taumahatanga wera me nga paenga ahi puta noa i nga whenua katoa o Amerika mai i te tau 1984 me tua atu.

​Ko nga raraunga Paleoclimatology i ahu mai i nga puna maori penei i nga mowhiti rakau, te hukapapa, te kaoa, te stalagmites, me te parataiao o te moana me te roto. Ko enei raraunga huarere takawaenga e whakaroa ana i te puranga korero huarere me te huarere ma te rau ki te miriona tau. Kei roto i nga raraunga he raupapa wa inenga matawhenua, ine koiora me etahi taurangi huarere i hangaia ano penei i te mahana me te ua. Ka whakamahia e nga kaiputaiao nga raraunga me nga korero o te paleoclimatology kia mohio ai koe ki te rereketanga o te rangi me te huringa o te rangi a meake nei.

Nau mai ki te paetukutuku TRiDaS ka kitea e koe nga korero e pa ana ki te whakapau kaha o te hapori o te ao ki te whakaputa i tetahi paerewa raraunga ao mo nga raraunga dendrochronological. He tuhinga e whakaatu ana i te paerewa i taia ki Dendrochronologia, ka waatea mai i te Science Direct . Ka taea hoki e koe te tirotiro i nga tuhinga TRiDaS ki te rapu korero atu.

Rapua te Putaiao Putaiao Ngahere mo nga tuhinga pukapuka Dendrochronology (me etahi atu Forest Science), nga upoko pukapuka, nga panui hangarau, nga pepa huihuinga, me etahi atu.

​Ko OldList he papa korero mo nga rakau tawhito. Ko tana kaupapa ko te tautuhi i nga reanga teitei ka taea e nga momo rereke o nga waahi rereke kia mohio ai nga tangata tino pakeke. I tua atu i tenei OldList taketake, Neil Pederson i Harvard Forest me nga hoa mahi i te Virginia Tech Tree Program kei te pupuri i tetahi hoa o Eastern OldList , e arotahi ana ki nga rakau tawhito e tipu ana i te rawhiti o Amerika.

Ko te Eastern OLDLIST he putunga korero 'franchise' o OLDLIST , he papa korero mo nga rakau tawhito me o ratou tau. Ko te kaupapa o tenei rarangi he tohu me te whakaatu i nga tau morahi mo nga momo kei te rawhiti o Amerika Te Tai Tokerau. Kei roto i tenei rarangi anake nga tau rakau kua tino manatokohia, kua pai ranei nga tuhinga (tirohia nga korero Hangarau kei raro mo etahi atu korero).

Nau mai ki te Raraunga Raraunga Gymnosperm, te puna tuatahi o te paetukutuku mo nga korero mo nga conifers me o raatau hoa. Mai i to maatau ipurangi i te tau 1997, kua arohia e te Raraunga Raraunga te aro o te ao hei puna korero mo te whakarōpūtanga, te whakaahuatanga, te rauropi me te whakamahinga o tenei roopu tipu me te tipu.

Kei roto i tenei putunga korero mo nga momo tipu e pa ana ki te dendrochonologically i tenei wa ko nga ingoa o nga momo rakau 1,166 me nga momo rakau iti kua tātarihia nga mowhiti rakau i roto i nga tuhinga kua whakaputaina. Ka whakaratohia e te papanga raraunga nga waehere ITRDB mo nga momo rakau.

Ko nga korero e whai ake nei mo ia momo, momo momo ranei: ingoa Latin me te mana, ingoa noa i te reo pakeha me/ranei nga ingoa ehara i te pakeha. Mo te ahua. e whitu rau nga momo me nga raraunga mowhiti-rakau me nga wa e waatea ana i te International Tree-Ring Data Bank ( ITRDB ), ko etahi atu korero ko:

  • Ko te Taurangi Whakawhitiwhiti (CDI), kei hea

    • Ko te "0" e tohu ana karekau te momo i whakawhiti i te ra, karekau ranei he korero whakawhiti e waatea ana

    • "1" e tohu ana i tetahi momo e mohiotia ana ki te whakawhiti i roto, i waenganui i nga rakau (he mea iti ki te dendrochronology)

    • Ko te "2" e tohu ana i tetahi momo e mohiotia ana ka whakawhiti i tetahi rohe (he mea nui ki te dendrochronology).

*Kia mahara mai i te Hui-tanguru 17, 2022 kaore ano kia whakahouhia te paataka raraunga mai i te tau 2013.

An online flora of all known plants, supporting the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. 1,325,388 names, 350,595 from accepted species, 56,408 images, 138,663 names with descriptions, 32,566 with distributions and 1,153,631 with references.

The Wood Database contains around 600 species currently, which only represents about 1/4 of the database's creator's, Eric Meier, total collection! Eric's book, The Wood Dictionary: From Acacia to Ziricote, A Guide to the World's Wood is also available.

FloraVeg.EU is an online database of European flora and vegetation data prepared for various projects of the Vegetation Science Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Most of the datasets were created in collaboration with partners from the European Vegetation Survey Working Group of the International Association for Vegetation Science. It uses the Pladias database platform developed in collaboration with the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The Flora part of the database focuses on native and naturalized flora occurring in Europe. Cultivated plants are not within the scope of the database, although the most commonly cultivated crops and woody plants are included. Taxon concepts and nomenclature largely follow the Euro+Med PlantBase. Species are characterized by their biological traits, origin, ecological indicator values and their occurrence in habitat and vegetation types.

Welcome to ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System! Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. We are a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies (ITIS-North America); other organizations; and taxonomic specialists. ITIS is also a partner of Species 2000 and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The ITIS and Species 2000 Catalogue of Life (CoL) partnership is proud to provide the taxonomic backbone to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).

TreeFlow is a comprehensive web resource for tree-ring reconstructions of streamflow and climate, providing easy access to reconstruction data as well as information about how the data were developed and can be used.
 

Click here to learn more about TreeFlow.

InciWeb is an interagency all-risk incident information management system. The system was developed with two primary missions:

  1. Provide the public a single source of incident related information

  2. Provide a standardized reporting tool for the Public Affairs community

Learn how to use and navigate around InciWeb with this support guide.

A number of supporting systems automate the delivery of incident information to remote sources. This ensures that the information regarding active incidents is consistent, and the delivery is timely.

The Fire and Smoke Map displays information on ground level air quality monitors recording fine particulates (PM2.5) from smoke and other sources, as well as information on fires, smoke plume locations, and special statements about smoke issued by various sources.

This map is designed to:

  • Allow the user to browse current conditions

  • Show information relevant to the current location or another location of interest

This page provides links to the most recent versions of tools produced by the U.S. Forest Service PNW Research Station's Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory in support of the Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program and wildland fire operations.

The Interagency Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program (IWFAQRP) was created to directly assess, communicate, and address risks posed by wildland fire smoke to the public as well as fire personnel. The program depends on four primary components: specially trained personnel called Air Resource Advisors, air quality monitoring, smoke concentration and dispersion modeling, and coordination and cooperation with agency partners.

The geospatial products described and distributed here depict the probability of high-severity fire, if a fire were to occur, for several ecoregions in the contiguous western US.

Users of these data should thoroughly read the README [pdf] file to better understand appropriate uses and interpretations of the data products distributed here.

To cite these data, please see:

Parks SA, Holsinger LM, Panunto MH, Jolly WM, Dobrowski SZ, and Dillon GK. 2018. High-severity fire: evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests. Environmental Research Letters. 13: 044037.

Access wildfire data, live feeds, technology, and resources from esri. Use this collection of map layers, live data feeds, maps, organizations, blog posts, and how-to guides to help plan and manage your wildfire response.

We manage approximately 150,000 citations on all the topics related to wildland fire, including prescribed burning, smoke, climate change, paleofires, wildlife and invertebrates, and fire history, to name a few of the topics we cover. We have set up our site so that you can search and download documents without charge.

Free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Over 5,000 silhouette images in the database.

Welcome to the online edition of The World List of Cycads (WLoC), a comprehensive taxonomic reference for cycad taxonomy, nomenclature, biology, and literature. The WLoC is produced under the auspices of the IUCN/SSC Cycad Specialist Group (CSG). The online edition is hosted and sponsored by Montgomery Botanical Center.

Plant List of Accepted Nomenclature, Taxonomy, and Symbols

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

The Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd) is an integrated database of daily climate summaries from land surface stations across the globe. GHCNd is made up of daily climate records from numerous sources that have been integrated and subjected to a common suite of quality assurance reviews.

GHCNd contains records from more than 100,000 stations in 180 countries and territories. NCEI provides numerous daily variables, including maximum and minimum temperature, total daily precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth. About half the stations only report precipitation. Both record length and period of record vary by station and cover intervals ranging from less than a year to more than 175 years.

DendroElevator is an open-source web platform for tree-ring image curation, visualization, and analysis. The system is optimized to maximize access to gigapixel images of tree rings and related paleoenvironmental proxy datatypes for remote research and distanced collaboration.

DendroElevator features a browser-based toolkit for tree-ring image visualization and time series measurement built for Elevator, a cloud-hosted digital asset management software with curation and robust streaming capabilities for file types of any size and common 2D and 3D formats, plus adaptability for various metadata and access permissions schemas.

DendroElevator constitutes an initial realization of our vision to create an open source, easily accessible online repository of high quality tree-ring imagery for entire collections of specimens. More information is here.

Welcome to the home of openDendro -- an open-source framework of the base analytic software tools used in dendrochronology in both the R and Python programming languages. Our goal is to create and curate a unified set of critical tools in open-source environments that will provide the necessary baseline for researchers using tree-ring data to adopt open-science practices and increase both rigor and transparency in dendrochronology.

N-TREND is a mainly tree-ring community driven initiative to bring together dendroclimatologists to identify a collective strategy to improve large-scale reconstructions of summer temperatures from new and existing tree-ring archives.

The Building Archaeology Research Database (BARD) has been designed as an easy to use and accessible summary index for both published and unpublished building records. It’s main aim is to encourage involvement in building archaeology and its current 23,000+ records (including many tree-ring dated buildings) can be freely searched on-line. 

  1. BARD is a primarily an on-line scientific research tool showing how building styles developed through time and across regions.

  2. BARD currently contains over 2500 tree-ring dated buildings and key features of timber-framing such as crucks, crown posts, wealdens, queen posts, etc can be selected and plotted.

  3. BARD provides systematic recording system for buildings that also helps to narrow down the likely date of construction.

Journals

Pukapuka awhina

Helpful Books

Dendro Education for All

Dendro Education for All
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