Tree-ring records from central Fennoscandia: The relationship between tree growth and climate along a west-east transect

Holocene

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 887-895

  Linderholm, H W ^a,b,e   Solberg, B O ^c   Lindholm, M ^d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Climate Impacts Research Centre   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Dendrochronology; Dendroclimatology; Fennoscandia; NAO; North atlantic Oscillation; Pinus sylvestris; Scots pine; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; TREE RING;

FENNOSCANDIA;

CONIFERALES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 0142194364     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603hl671rp     Document Type: Article

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