Methodologically induced differences in oak site classifications in a homogeneous tree-ring network

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-30

  Friedrichs, Dagmar A ^a   Neuwirth, Burkhard ^a   Winiger, Matthias ^a   Löffler, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central West Germany; Cluster analysis; Dendroecology; Network analysis; Principal component analysis; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

QUERCUS;

EID: 64049100233     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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