The dendroclimatic signal in Douglas-fir and ponderosa pine tree-ring chronologies from the southern Canadian Cordillera

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1858-1874

  Watson, Emma ^a   Luckman, Brian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

DENDROCLIMATIC SIGNALS;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; TREE RING;

CANADA;

ABIES; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 0036434765     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x02-096     Document Type: Article

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