Pooled versus separate measurements of tree-ring stable isotopes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2244-2251

  Dorado Liñán, Isabel ^a,b   Gutiérrez, Emilia ^a   Helle, Gerhard ^b   Heinrich, Ingo ^b   Andreu Hayles, Laia ^a,c   Planells, Octavi ^a   Leuenberger, Markus ^d   Bürger, Carmen ^b   Schleser, Gerhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b German Centre for Geosciences Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution   (Germany)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Dendrochronology; Oxygen 18; Pooling; Stable isotopes; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CARBON-13; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; OXYGEN-18; POOLING; STABLE ISOTOPES; TREE RINGS;

CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; O RINGS; OXYGEN;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CARBON 13; OXYGEN 18;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EUROPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREE GROWTH; WOOD;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEASONS; TREES; WOOD;

CARBON; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; METEOROLOGY; OXYGEN;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 79953295516     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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