Reconstructing mean maximum temperature of growing season from the maximum density of the Schrenk Spruce in Yili, Xinjiang, China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2300-2308

  Chen, Jin ^a,b,c   Wang, LiLi ^a,d,e   Zhu, HaiFeng ^a   Wu, Pu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Maximum density; Mean maximum temperature from April to August; Schrenk Spruce; Tree rings; Yili

Indexed keywords

PICEA; PICEA SCHRENKIANA;

EID: 70349310081     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0051-4     Document Type: Article

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