Radial-growth response of forest-Tundra trees to climate in the Western Hudson Bay lowlands

Arctic

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 446-458

  Mamet, Steven D ^a   Kershaw, G Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Churchill; Dendroclimatology; Forest tundra; Hudson Bay lowlands; Larix laricina; Picea glauca; Picea mariana; Response function; Ring width; Wapusk national park

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE FORCING; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; ECOTONE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RESPONSE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; PHENOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSECT; TREE RING; TUNDRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; MANITOBA; WAPUSK NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 82855168325     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic4144     Document Type: Article

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