Trends in recent temperature and radial tree growth spanning 2000 years across northwest Eurasia

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1501, 2008, Pages 2271-2282

  Briffa, Keith R ^a   Shishov, Vladimir V ^b,c   Melvin, Thomas M ^a   Vaganov, Eugene A ^g   Grudd, Håken ^d   Hantemirov, Rashit M ^e   Eronen, Matti ^f   Naurzbaev, Muktar M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b SUKACHEV INSTITUTE OF FOREST   (Russian Federation)

^c Krasnoyarsk State Trade Economical Institute   (Russian Federation)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ANIMAL ECOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^g SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eurasia; Temperature; Tree ring chronology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

EURASIA;

EID: 44449165564     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2199     Document Type: Review

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