A forced response to twentieth century climate conditions of two spanish forests inferred from widths and stable isotopes of tree rings

Climatic Change

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 229-252

  Planells, Octavi ^a   Gutiérrez, Emilia ^a   Helle, Gerhard ^b   Schleser, Gerhard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANGING CLIMATE; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CONDITION; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; DATA SETS; DENDROCLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; FORCED RESPONSE; GROWING PERIOD; ON CURRENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS; PINE FOREST; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PREVIOUS YEAR; REGIONAL SCALE; RING WIDTH; STABLE ISOTOPES; SYNCHRONISATION; TREE GROWTH; TREE RING RECORDS; TREE RINGS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

FORESTRY; ISOTOPES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADAPTATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WARMING;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; PRECIPITATION; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PINUS UNCINATA;

EID: 70350712043     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9602-6     Document Type: Article

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