False rings in jack pine and black spruce trees from eastern Manitoba as indicators of dry summers

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1722-1736

  Hoffer, Melissa ^a   Tardif, Jacques C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; CLIMATIC EVENTS; EARLYWOOD; GROWING SEASON; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; JACK PINE; JUVENILE PERIOD; LATEWOOD; MANITOBA; NORMAL GROWTH; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA; RADIAL GROWTH; RING WIDTH; TREE GROWTH; TREE RINGS;

DROUGHT;

FORESTRY;

ANOMALY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DATING METHOD; DROUGHT; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING; WOOD;

DROUGHT; GROWTH; MANITOBA; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PRECIPITATION; SAMPLING;

CANADA; MANITOBA; NOPIMING PROVINCIAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA;

PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA;

EID: 70249111878     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-088     Document Type: Article

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