A 548-year tree-ring chronology of oak (Quercus SPP.) for southeast slovenia and its significance as a dating tool and climate archive

Tree-Ring Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-15

  Čufar, Katarina ^a   De Luis, Martín ^b   Zupančič, Martin ^a   Eckstein, Dieter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Dendroclimatology; Heteroconnection; Historic buildings; Paleo environment; Teleconnection

Indexed keywords

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 46949111498     PISSN: 15361098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3959/2007-12.1     Document Type: Article

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