Degraded temperature sensitivity of a stone pine chronology explained by dendrochemical evidences

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-128

  Kern, Zoltán ^a   Popa, Ionel ^b   Varga, Zsolt ^a   Széles, Éva ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b FOREST RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

"Divergence problem"; Anthropogenic fertilization; Climate signal; Dendrochemistry; Pinus cembra L.

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CHRONOLOGY; CONIFEROUS TREE; SULFUR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

PINUS CEMBRA; PINUS CEMBROIDES;

EID: 69049087573     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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