Stable-carbon isotope time series from tropical tree rings indicate a precipitation signal

Tree-Ring Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-49

  Fichtler, Esther ^a   Helle, Gerhard ^b   Worbes, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

13C; Dendrochronology; Stable carbon isotopes; Tree ring; Tropical climate; Tropics

Indexed keywords

EID: 76449115056     PISSN: 15361098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3959/2008-20.1     Document Type: Article

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