An edge-card of a graph G is a subgraph formed by deleting an edge.The edge-reconstruction number of a graph G, ern(G), is the minimum number of edge-cards required to determine G up to isomorphism. A da-ecard is an edge-card which also specifies the degree of the deleted edge, that is, the number of edges adjacent to it. The degree-associated edge-reconstruction number, dern(G) is the minimum number of daecards that suffice to determine the graph G. In this paper we state some known results on the edge-reconstruction number of disconnected graphs and trees. Then we investigate how the degree-associated edgereconstruction number of disconnected graphs and trees vary from their respective edge-reconstruction number. We show how we can select two da-ecards to identify caterpillars uniquely. We also show that while dern(tP n ) = 2 for n > 3, dern(tP 3 ) = 3 where P n is the path on n vertices, and that, although dern(K 1,n ) = 1, dern(S n p+1 ) = 2 where S n p+1 is a tree obtained from the star K 1,n by subdividing each edge p times. Finally we conjecture that for any tree T , dern(T ) ≤ 2.