Climatic signals in tree ring of Picea schrenkiana along an altitudinal gradient in the central Tianshan Mountains, northwestern China

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 735-741

  Wang, Ting ^a   Ren, Haibao ^a   Ma, Keping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Altitude gradient; Dendroclimatology; Picea schrenkiana; Tree ring; Treeline

Indexed keywords

AIR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATIC SIGNALS; RADICAL GROWTH; TREE-RING SAMPLES;

FORESTRY;

AIR; FORESTRY; METEOROLOGY;

PICEA; PICEA SCHRENKIANA;

EID: 27644556916     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-005-0003-9     Document Type: Article

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