Chapter 1 High-Resolution Paleoclimatology

Chapter 3 How Well Understood Are the Processes that Create Dendroclimatic Records? A Mechanistic Model of the Climatic Control on Conifer Tree-Ring Growth Dynamics

Chapter 4 Uncertainty, Emergence, and Statistics in Dendrochronology

Chapter 5 A Closer Look at Regional Curve Standardization of Tree-Ring Records: Justification of the Need, a Warning of Some Pitfalls, and Suggested Improvements in Its Application

Chapter 6 Stable Isotopes in Dendroclimatology: Moving Beyond ‘Potential’

Chapter 7 Dendroclimatology from Regional to Continental Scales: Understanding Regional Processes to Reconstruct Large-Scale Climatic Variations Across the Western Americas

Chapter 8 Application of Streamflow Reconstruction to Water Resources Management

Chapter 9 Climatic Inferences from Dendroecological Reconstructions

Chapter 10 North American Tree Rings, Climatic Extremes, and Social Disasters

Chapter 11 Tree Rings and Climate: Sharpening the Focus