Global change has led to the warming of the atmosphere and oceans, the diminishment of snow and ice, while the sea level is rising. These changes have widespread impacts on human and natural systems on all continents and across the oceans. In tropical regions, ecosystems and socio-economic cultures become more and more affected by the high vulnerability to extreme climate events, deforestation and population growth. Therefore long term climate records from these regions are needed to better understand the natural climate variability and to simulate the magnitude of human-induced factors on climate change. However, climate records from tropical regions are scarce in time and space. Whenever tree growth is limited directly or indirectly by climate variables that can be quantified and dated, dendroclimatological methods can be used to reconstruct past environmental conditions dendroclimatology examines the relationship between tree growth and climate with an annual resolution. Dendroclimatology in the tropics still remains in an early stage, although paleoclimatic records from tropical regions are essential to our understanding of past changes in the Earth’s climatic system, equator-to-pole linkages, and the prediction of sensitivity of tropical regions to future climate change. This review gives an overview on different aspects of tropical dendroclimatology on classical ring width studies in broad-leaved species, looking at two tropical biomes, moist broadleaf and dry broadleaf forests. It points to technical aspects of tropical dendrochronology and refers to a multitude of successful tree-ring studies of tropical species related to climate. This demonstrates that tropical dendroclimatology is undergoing a promising development; however, tropical tree-ring studies mainly take place in the dry tropics, while studies in the wet tropical forests are still the exception.

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使用热带阔叶树种的树木气候学——综述

全球变化导致大气和海洋变暖，冰雪减少，海平面上升。这些变化对各大洲和大洋彼岸的人类和自然系统产生了广泛的影响。在热带地区，生态系统和社会经济文化越来越受到极端气候事件、森林砍伐和人口增长的高度脆弱性的影响。因此，需要来自这些地区的长期气候记录，以更好地了解自然气候变率并模拟人为因素对气候变化的影响程度。然而，热带地区的气候记录在时间和空间上都很稀缺。每当树木生长直接或间接受到可以量化和确定日期的气候变量的限制时，树木气候学方法可用于重建过去的环境条件树木气候学以年度分辨率检查树木生长与气候之间的关系。热带地区的树木气候学仍处于早期阶段，尽管热带地区的古气候记录对于我们了解地球气候系统过去的变化、赤道到极地的联系以及预测热带地区对未来气候变化的敏感性至关重要. 这篇综述概述了热带树木气候学对阔叶树种经典环宽研究的不同方面，研究了两个热带生物群落，潮湿阔叶林和干燥阔叶林。它指出了热带树木年代学的技术方面，并提到了与气候相关的热带物种的大量成功的树轮研究。这表明热带树木气候学正在取得有希望的发展；然而，热带树轮研究主要发生在干燥的热带地区，而在潮湿的热带森林中的研究仍然是个例外。