Evaluating Crossdating Accuracy: A Manual and Tutorial for the Computer Program COFECHA

By H. Grissino-Mayer. 2001

1,830 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e278f78ce2eed208ab662cfe7671ee59ab2af8c3

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Citations in the corpus

Quantitative Tracheid Anatomy Reveals a Complex Environmental Control of Wood Structure in Continental Mediterranean Climate (2012, methodology): “Grissino-Mayer HD 2001 Evaluating crossdating accuracy: a manual and tutorial for the computer program COFECHA.”
Climate and competition effects on tree growth in Rocky Mountain forests (2017, methodology): “Ring widths were examined for measurement and dating errors using COFECHA (Grissino-Mayer 2001).”
A Theory-Driven Approach to Tree-Ring Standardization: Defining the Biological Trend from Expected Basal Area Increment (2008, methodology): “Ring-width series were visually crossdated, measured with a resolution of 0.01 mm, and checked for errors using computer-aided techniques (Holmes 1983; Grissino-Mayer 2001).”
Bioclimatology of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in the Eastern Alps: spatial and altitudinal climatic signals identified through a tree‐ring network (2007, methodology): “Treering series were visually and statistically compared with each other to ensure accuracy of crossdating and measurement (Holmes, 1983; Grissino-Mayer, 2001).”
Herbivory and plant growth rate determine the success of El Niño Southern Oscillation‐driven tree establishment in semiarid South America (2006, unknown): “Ring-width data were cross-dated with COFECHA (Grissino-Mayer, 2001), and only the best correlated series were kept for building a master series for Peru (n 5 96) and Chile (n 5 14).”
Selective drought-induced decline of pine species in southeastern Spain (2012, methodology): “Cross-dating quality was checked using COFECHA (Holmes 1983; Grissino-Mayer 2001).”
Winter and summer upwelling modes and their biological importance in the California Current Ecosystem (2011, methodology): “Crossdating was statistically verified with the Dendrochronology Program Library program COFECHA (Holmes, 1983; Grissino-Mayer, 2001).”
Trees dying standing in the northeastern boreal old-growth forests of Quebec: spatial patterns, rates, and temporal variation (2007, methodology): “Determining the year of death was primarily done by visual dating of narrow marker rings, and the results were verified using the computer program COFECHA® (Holmes 1983; Grissino-Mayer 2001).”
A dendro-ecological study of forest overstorey productivity following the invasion of the non-indigenous shrub Lonicera maackii (2007, methodology): “Crossdating of tree rings was conducted by the use of skeleton plotting and with the COFECHA program (Grissino-Mayer 2001).”
Testing the efficacy of tree-ring methods for detecting past disturbances (2018, methodology): “Each ring was measured to the nearest 0.001mm and dating was verified with the program COFECHA (Holmes, 1983; Grissino-Mayer, 2001).”
Is drought the main decline factor at the rear edge of Europe? The case of southern Iberian pine plantations (2012, methodology): “In order to detect dating and measurement errors, ring-width series were checked with COFECHA software (Holmes, 1983; Grissino-Mayer, 2001).”
Tree growth response to drought and temperature in a mountain landscape in northern Arizona, USA (2005, methodology): “comm.). Cross-dating was validated using skeleton plots (Stokes & Smiley, 1968) and cofecha computer software (Holmes et al., 1986; Grissino-Mayer, 2001; International Tree Ring Data Bank program library).”
Effects of stand composition and tree size on resistance and resilience to drought in sessile oak and Scots pine (2015, methodology): “Statistical crossdating was performed with the COFECHA software 205 (Grissino-Mayer, 2001).”