Tree Rings and Natural Hazards : A State-of-Art - Stoffel, Markus; Bollschweiler, Michelle; Butler, David R.; Luckman, Brian H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards - An Introduction -- Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: An Introduction -- Snow Avalanches -- Dendrogeomorphology and Snow Avalanche Research -- Tree-Ring Dating of Snow Avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA -- Tracking Past Snow Avalanches in the SE Pyrenees -- Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction of Past Snow Avalanche Events and Risk Assessment in Northern Gaspé Peninsula (Québec, Canada) -- Using Dendrochronology to Validate Numerical Simulations of Snow Avalanches in the Patagonian Andes -- Landslides -- Dating Landslides with Trees -- Dendrogeomorphological Analysis of a Landslide near Lago, Calabria (Italy) -- Tree-Ring Analysis and Rockfall Avalanches: The Use of Weighted Samples -- Age of Landslides Along the Grande Rivière de la Baleine Estuary, Eastern Coast of Hudson Bay, Quebec (Canada) -- Rainfall Up, Mountain Down? -- Rockfall -- Rockfalls and Their Hazard -- Assessing Rockfall Activity in a Mountain Forest - Implications for Hazard Assessment -- Tree-Ring Based Rockfall Reconstruction and Accuracy Assessment of a 3D Rockfall Model -- Assessment of the Rockfall Frequency for Hazard Analysis at Solà d'Andorra (Eastern Pyrenees) -- Reconstruction and Spatial Analysis of Rockfall Frequency and Bounce Heights Derived from Tree Rings -- Debris Flows -- State of the Art in Debris-Flow Research: The Role of Dendrochronology -- Using Event and Minimum Age Dating for the Assessment of Hazards on a Debris-Flow Cone -- Dendrogeomorphic Applications to Debris Flows in Glacier National Park, Montana USA -- Frequency-Magnitude Relationships, Seasonality and Spread of Debris Flows on a Forested Cone -- High-Precision Dating of Debris-Flow Events Within the Growing Season -- Flooding -- Tree Rings as Paleoflood and Paleostage Indicators -- The Effects of Hydroelectric Flooding on a Reservoir's Peripheral Forests and Newly Created Forested Islands -- Spring Water Levels Reconstructed from Ice-Scarred Trees and Cross-Sectional Area of the Earlywood Vessels in Tree Rings from Eastern Boreal Canada -- A 100-Year History of Floods Determined from Tree Rings in a Small Mountain Stream in the Tatra Mountains, Poland -- Dendrohydrology and Extreme Floods Along the Red River, Canada -- Meteorological Hazards -- Weather and Climate Extremes: Where Can Dendrochronology Help? -- Dendrotempestology and the Isotopic Record of Tropical Cyclones in Tree Rings of the Southeastern United States -- Dendrochronological Responses to a Tornado -- Dendroecology of Hurricanes and the Potential for Isotopic Reconstructions in Southeastern Texas -- Wildfires -- Wildfire Hazard and the Role of Tree-Ring Research -- Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest -- Wildfire Risk and Ecological Restoration in Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes -- Wildfire Ecology and Management at Grand Canyon, USA: Tree-Ring Applications in Forest Fire History and Modeling -- Wildfire Risk and Hazard in Northern Patagonia, Argentina -- Earthquakes -- Tree Rings and Earthquakes -- Application of Tree-Ring Analysis to Paleoseismology -- Tree-Ring Abnormality Caused by Large Earthquake: An Example From the 1931 M 8.0 Fuyun Earthquake -- Tree-Ring Dated Landslide Movements and Seismic Events in Southwestern Montana, USA -- Seismic Damage in Conifers from Olympic and Yellowstone National Parks, United States -- Volcanic Activity -- Studying Past Volcanic Activity with Tree Rings -- Tree-Ring Evidence for the 1913 Eruption of Volcán de Fuego de Colima, Mexico -- Dendrochemical Evidence of the 1781 Eruption of Mount Hood, Oregon -- Volcanic Eruptions over the Last 5,000 Years from High Elevation Tree-Ring Widths and Frost Rings -- Unknown Eruption of Shiveluch Volcano (Kamchatka, Russia) Around AD 1756 Identified by Dendrochronology -- Late Eighteenth Century Old Maid Eruption and Lahars at Mount Hood, Oregon (USA) Dated with Tree Rings and Historical Observations -- Overall Conclusion and Outlook -- Whither Dendrogeomorphology? -- Erratum to: Chapter 40 Seismic Damage in Conifers from Olympic and Yellowstone Parks, United States.
Keywords: Natural disasters; Historical geology; Physical geography; Geomorphology; Forestry; Climate change; Natural Hazards; Historical Geology; Physical Geography; Geomorphology; Forestry; Climate Change