An unstable tree-growth response to climate in two 500 year chronologies, North Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Dendrochronologia

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 225-237

  Shi, Chunming ^a,b,c   Masson Delmotte, Valerie ^b   Daux, Valerie ^b,d   Li, Zongshan ^a,c   Zhang, Qi Bin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

ENSO; PDO; Temporal stability; Tibetan plateau; Tree ring; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

JUNIPERUS;

EID: 77956880814     PISSN: 11257865     EISSN: 16120051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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