@Article{Raden-crossdating-2019,
  author =	 {Martin Raden and Alexander Mattheis and Hans-Peter Kahle and Heinrich Spiecker and Rolf Backofen},
  title =	 {The potential of intra-annual density information for crossdating of short tree-ring series},
  journal = 	{Dendrochronologia},
  year =	 {2020},
  volume =	 {60},
  issn = 	 {1125-7865},
  number =	 {},
  pages =	 {125679},
  doi = {10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125679},
  user =	 {mmann},
  abstract =	 {The crossdating of tree-ring series is typically based on 
tree-ring width sequences, which is a crude abstraction of the growth signal stored in tree rings.
In contrast, intra-annual wood density data allows a much more detailed comparison of wood growth processes
and new measurement techniques scale well to measure large amounts of samples.
Thus, chronologies of intra-annual densitometric curves can be built.
Here, we investigate to what extent intra-annual wood density information can improve crossdating.
We evaluate different approaches on a data set of Norway spruce trees (Picea abies) and compare the results to 
standard methods that are based on ring width or maximum density.
Our results show that intra-annual densitometric data indeed increases
crossdating success rate notably for short tree ring series
that cover less than 25 years.}
}