Temperature variations recorded in Pinus tabulaeformis tree rings from the southern and northern slopes of the central Qinling Mountains, central China

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Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-291

  Liu, Yu ^a   Linderholm, Hans W ^b   Song, Huiming ^a   Cai, Qiufang ^a   Tian, Qinhua ^a   Sun, Junyan ^a   Chen, Deliang ^b   Simelton, Elisabeth ^b   Seftigen, Kristina ^b   Tian, Hua ^a   Wang, Ruiyuan ^a   Bao, Guang ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; MONSOON; RECONSTRUCTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SLOPE; SUMMER; TEMPORAL RECORD; TREE RING; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING; WINTER;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

PINUS TABULIFORMIS;

EID: 73649117843     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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