Spring temperature responses of oaks are synchronous with North Atlantic conditions during the last deglaciation

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 169-187

  Voelker, Steven L ^a   Noirot Cosson, Paul Emile ^b   Stambaugh, Michael C ^c   McMurry, Erin R ^c   Meinzer, Frederick C ^d   Lachenbruch, Barbara ^b   Guyette, Richard P ^c  

^a SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

B lling Aller d; Bur oak; Great Plains, USA; Holocene; Phenology; Pleistocene; Pre Boreal; Quercus macrocarpa; Radiocarbon; Wood anatomy; Xylem; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ANATOMY; CHANNEL; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONDUCTIVITY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GRIP; ICE CORE; LAST DEGLACIATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPRING (SEASON); SUBFOSSIL; SYNCHRONY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION HISTORY; XYLEM; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CARIBBEAN SEA; GREAT PLAINS; MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS MACROCARPA;

EID: 84861588459     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0848.1     Document Type: Article

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