Title: Dendrochronological potential of drought-sensitive tree stands in Armenia for the hydroclimate reconstruction of the Lesser Caucasus Author: Magdalena Opała-Owczarek, Hrachuhi Galstyan, Piotr Owczarek, Hovik Sayadyan, Trahel Vardanyan Citation style: Opała-Owczarek Magdalena, Galstyan Hrachuhi, Owczarek Piotr, Sayadyan Hovik, Vardanyan Trahel. (2021). Dendrochronological potential of drought-sensitive tree stands in Armenia for the hydroclimate reconstruction of the Lesser Caucasus. "Atmosphere" (2021), iss. 2, art. no. 153, s. 1-15. DOI: 10.3390/atmos12020153 atmosphere Article Dendrochronological Potential of Drought-Sensitive Tree Stands in Armenia for the Hydroclimate Reconstruction of the Lesser Caucasus Magdalena Opała-Owczarek 1,* , Hrachuhi Galstyan 2, Piotr Owczarek 3 , Hovik Sayadyan 4 and Trahel Vardanyan 4 1 Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland 2 School of Life Sciences, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641112, China;
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[email protected] Abstract: Existing high-resolution reconstructions of hydroclimate variability in the Caucasus are lacking tree-ring data from Armenian Plateau, the most continental part of the region. Our research presents the first dendrochronological