A 400-year tree-ring chronology from the tropical treeline of North America

Ambio

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 162-166

  Biondi, Franco ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; TREE RING; TREELINE;

COLIMA STATE; MEXICO; NEVADO DE COLIMA; NORTH AMERICA;

GYMNOSPERMAE; PINUS HARTWEGII; PINUS MUGO; PLINIA;

EID: 0035019081     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-30.3.162     Document Type: Article

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47. We thank the Mexican authorities for permission to obtain tree-ring samples. The help and assistance of Prof. Ignacio Galindo Estrada, Dr. Andrew Burton, Dr. Shirley Imsand, and many others is deeply appreciated. Research funding was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and by the National Geographic Society (NGS) of the United States of America.
48. First submitted 5 July 2000. Accepted for publication after revision 24 October 2000.