Recent trends in tree-ring records from high elevation sites in the Andes of northern Patagonia

Climatic Change

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 425-454

  Villalba, Ricardo ^a   Boninsegna, Jose A ^b   Veblen, Thomas T ^b   Schmelter, Andrea ^b   Rubulis, Sigfrido ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; PRECIPITATION GRADIENT; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE; TREELINE;

ANDES; ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

NOTHOFAGUS; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO;

EID: 0030845109     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005366317996     Document Type: Article

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