Temporal stability in bristlecone pine tree-ring stable oxygen isotope chronologies over the last two centuries

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-6

  Bale, R J ^a   Robertson, I ^a   Leavitt, S W ^b   Loader, N J ^a   Harlan, T P ^b   Gagen, M ^a   Young, G H F ^a   Csank, A Z ^b   Froyd, C A ^c   McCarroll, D ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bristlecone pine; Climate change; Dendroclimatology; Millennium; Oxygen isotopes; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; NORTHERN OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; TREE RING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; WHITE MOUNTAIN; WYOMING;

PINUS ARISTATA; PINUS LONGAEVA;

EID: 75849164942     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609348867     Document Type: Article

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