Trends in twentieth-century tree growth at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, USA

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 481-488

  Bunn, Andrew G ^a,c   Graumlich, Lisa J ^a   Urban, Dean L ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Dendrochronology; Global warming; Late Holocene; Ordination; Paleoclimatology; Sierra Nevada

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH; TREE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WHITE MOUNTAINS [CALIFORNIA-NEVADA]; WORLD;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 20044382233     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl827rp     Document Type: Article

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