Growth-ring boundaries of tropical tree species: Aiding delimitation by long histological sections and wood density profiles

Trindade Quintilhan Manolo, Santini Jr Luiz, Ortega Rodriguez Daigard Ricardo, Guillemot Joannès, Marangom Cesilio Gabriella Hita, Chambi Legoas Roger, Nouvellon Yann, Tomazello Filho Mario. 2021. Growth-ring boundaries of tropical tree species: Aiding delimitation by long histological sections and wood density profiles. Dendrochronologia, 69:125878, 10 p.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125878

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Quartile : Q2, Sujet : FORESTRY / Quartile : Q3, Sujet : GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL

Résumé : Recent methodological advances have opened new perspectives for tropical dendrochonological studies by facilitating the visualization, delimitation, and analyses of tree-rings. One of those improvements was brought by X-ray densitometry, which allows building radial wood density profiles at microscopic scale. Furthermore, recent methods allow for cutting long histological sections to study anatomical variations along the entire radius of trees. These techniques have mainly been applied to low wood-density species from temperate and Mediterranean regions, with only limited applications in the tropics. Here we provide an improved protocol that allows for obtaining long histological sections of tropical woods, apply it to six species with varying wood densities 0.45−0.85 g cm−3 (Eucalyptus grandis, Tectona grandis, Acacia mangium, Cedrela fissilis, Hymenaea courbaril, and Copaifera duckei), and explore potential applications for tree-ring analyses. We provide instructions on core-microtome knife adjustments, procedures for softening and sectioning long histological samples of high wood-density species. We also present a multi-proxy approach that combines X-ray density profiles with the histological sections that improve the characterization and distinction of the various and complex tropical growth rings anatomical markers (fibre zone, marginal parenchyma, and ring porosity). This multi-proxy approach also opens the door for obtaining quantitative anatomy and physical parameters of tropical species with (intra-annual resolution. Our proposed approach is thus not only an additional tool to improve ring-boundary delimitation of tropical species, but it also paves the way to more innovative, borderline approaches in tropical dendrochronology.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : dendrochronologie, cerne, bois tropical, densité du bois, densitométrie, histologie végétale, anatomie du bois, Eucalyptus grandis, Tectona grandis, Acacia mangium, Hymenaea courbaril