Can climate variations be inferred from tree-ring parameters and stable isotopes from Larix decidua? Juvenile effects, budmoth outbreaks, and divergence issue

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 221-233

  Daux, V ^a   Edouard, J L ^b   Masson Delmotte, V ^a   Stievenard, M ^a   Hoffmann, G ^a   Pierre, M ^a   Mestre, O ^c   Danis, P A ^d   Guibal, F ^d  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Direction de la Climatologie   (France)

^d AVIGNON UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Alps; Cellulose; Climate reconstruction; Divergence; Isotopes

Indexed keywords

ALPS; CARBON ISOTOPE COMPOSITION; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIVERGENCE; DIVERGENCE PROBLEMS; FIRST ORDER; FRENCH ALPS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC RATIOS; LATEWOOD; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SOURCE WATERS; STABLE ISOTOPES; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; STRONG CORRELATION; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE SERIES; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING WIDTH; TWO PARAMETER;

BUILDING MATERIALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; HUMIDITY CONTROL; OXYGEN; PLANT EXTRACTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ISOTOPES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING; WOOD;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; HUMIDITY CONTROL; ISOTOPES; LARIX; METEOROLOGY; OXYGEN; PLANTS;

ALPS;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA;

EID: 80052797538     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.07.003     Document Type: Article

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