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December 6, 2018

New Study Makes 52 Million Tree Records More Accessible to Science

A map of the world highlighting locations of tree ring data banks.

The world's primary archive of tree ring data, which holds more than 52 million cost-free records spanning 8,000 years of history, has gotten a makeover by scientists from four countries committed to making science more accessible.

The co-authors report in the Journal of Biogeography that the International Tree‐Ring Data Bank, developed in 1974 and populated by hundreds of contributing