Growth response of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) to climate in the eastern Cascade Mountains, Washington, U.S.A.: Implications for climatic change

Ecoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 544-551

  Kusnierczyk, Elizabeth R ^a   Ettl, Gregory J ^a  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Dendrochronology; Ponderosa pine

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENDROECOLOGY; ELEVATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE; TREELINE;

CASCADES; OKANOGAN NATIONAL FOREST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 0036923718     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2002.11682742     Document Type: Article

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