date: Sat Oct 4 16:21:59 2008 from: Tom Melvin subject: Re: Fwd: GCB 08-576 Review information to: Keith Briffa Keith, I have gone through this paper (Tardif) and it is very good. They produce empirical evidence to show that the occurence of thin latewood vessel walls are not related to absolute temperature but to relative changes (if mean tempertaure is more than 2 degrees below recent mean) presumed due to aclimation of trees. By implication this suggests that MXD cannot retain long-timescale variance which makes the paper important, i.e. you should review it. As it comes from Prentice and we may want a favour from him later it ought to be done sooner than later. Tom At 15:08 02/10/2008, you wrote: X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:46:30 -0500 To: Keith Briffa From: GCB Subject: GCB 08-576 Review information X-UIUC-Life-Sciences-MailScanner-Information: Please contact help@life.uiuc.edu for more information X-UIUC-Life-Sciences-MailScanner-ID: 3FFBC4E8194.4106B X-UIUC-Life-Sciences-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UIUC-Life-Sciences-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (too large) X-UIUC-Life-Sciences-MailScanner-From: gcb@life.uiuc.edu X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: undef - message too big (size: 1694937, limit: 153600) X-CanItPRO-Stream: UEA:f023 (inherits from UEA:10_Tag_Only,UEA:default,base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 139.222.131.184 Dear Dr. Briffa, Thank you for agreeing to review this MS for Global Change Biology. We are attaching an Acrobat pdf file of the whole MS. Our priority is to obtain your recommendation as quickly as possible, so use the means of transmission easiest for yourself: e-mail, FAX or mail. We normally expect our reviewers to send us their comments within two weeks of receipt of the manuscript. To receive the free color print we will need your review by October 22nd. We would prefer that you send us your review using our electronic referee report form, which is also attached. This document has been created using the Word Forms facility, and the user only has access to the available fields. The third page of the form is available for free text into which you may type your review or, advisedly, paste in previously prepared comments. You may include any confidential comments on the first page of the form with the heading "this page will not be sent to the authors," but please do not include them after the heading "this form will be sent to the authors," as this and the following pages will be sent to the MS corresponding author. You may return the completed form to us as a file attached to an email message. We will check the properties of the saved document so as to remove possible information on your identity. Alternatively, you may send your review via the web-based report form that can be accessed at: <[1]http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/static/gcb_rrf.asp>http://www.blackwellpublishing .com/static/gcb_rrf.asp If you have any questions, please just ask. Best regards, Rachel Shekar Manuscript Number: GCB 08/576 Manuscript Title: Climatic light rings in Pinus banksiana from the mixed boreal forest of central Canada: diagnostic, variability in past centuries, and implications for dendroclimatic reconstructions of past temperature changes Manuscript Authors: Tardif JC, Epp B, Girardin MP, Conciatori F Manuscript Editor: Colin Prentice Rachel Shekar Assistant Editor Global Change Biology 1135 Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois 1206 W. Gregory Dr. Urbana, IL 61801-3838, USA phone 217-333-9651 FAX +1-217-244-3637 e-mail: gcb@life.uiuc.edu [2]http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- NEW! 2007 Impact factor 4.786 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- -- Professor Keith Briffa, Climatic Research Unit University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ, U.K. Phone: +44-1603-593909 Fax: +44-1603-507784 [3]http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/