Changing climate sensitivity of black spruce (Picea mariana Mill.) in a peatland-forest landscape in Interior Alaska

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 167-175

  Wilmking, Martin ^a   Myers Smith, Isla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Bog; Climate; Picea mariana

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 39849089437     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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