Oxygen and carbon isotopic ratios of tree-ring cellulose in a conifer-hardwood mixed forest in northern Japan

Geochemical Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-88

  Nakatsuka, Takeshi ^a   Ohnishi, Keiko ^a   Hara, Toshihiko ^a   Sumida, Akihiro ^a   Mitsuishi, Daisuke ^a   Kurita, Naoyuki ^b   Uemura, Shigeru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FrontierObsResSystGlobalChange   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope ratios; Cellulose; Northern Japan; Oxygen isotope ratios; Tree ring

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CELLULOSE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MIXED FOREST; OXYGEN; TREE RING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 2442581047     PISSN: 00167002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2343/geochemj.38.77     Document Type: Article

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