Diverse climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width and density

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-273

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Frank, David ^a,b   Trouet, Valerie ^a   Esper, Jan ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate reconstructions; Conifers; Dendroclimatology; Growth responses; Summer temperature

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARRY-OVER EFFECTS; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DATA COVER; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; GROWTH CHARACTERISTIC; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTERANNUAL; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN TREES; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TIME-SCALES; TREE-RING WIDTH; TWO PARAMETER; WARM SEASONS;

FORESTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPAIR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATES; DENDROLOGY; GROWTH; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLLUTION CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RINGS; SOFTWOODS;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 77952096462     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-009-0396-y     Document Type: Article

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