Twentieth-century warming and the dendroclimatology of declining yellow-cedar forests in southeastern Alaska

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1319-1334

  Beier, Colin M ^a,c   Sink, Scott E ^a   Hennon, Paul E ^b   D'Amore, David V ^b   Juday, Glenn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ANNUAL GROWTH; CENTURY (CO); CLIMATIC TRENDS; CLIMATIC VARIATIONS; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; FREEZING INJURY; GROWTH RESPONSES; LITTLE ICE AGE (LIA); MICROCLIMATIC CONDITIONS; SNOW COVERS; TEMPERATE RAINFORESTS; TEMPORAL SCALING; TREE RING CHRONOLOGIES;

TEMPERATURE SCALES;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; LITTLE ICE AGE; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFOREST; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; SURVIVAL; THAWING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CALLITROPSIS NOOTKATENSIS; CHAMAECYPARIS;

EID: 43349097766     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X07-240     Document Type: Article

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