Legacies of pre-industrial land use can bias modern tree-ring climate calibrations

Climate Research

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 63-76

  Gunnarson, Björn E ^a,b   Josefsson, Torbjörn ^c   Linderholm, Hans W ^d   Östlund, Lars ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Human land use; Maximum latewood density; Scots pine; Tree rings; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN LAND USE; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY; SCOTS PINE; TREE RINGS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

LAND USE;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CALIBRATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE RESERVE; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TREE RING; VEGETATION HISTORY;

SWEDEN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84861589023     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr01083     Document Type: Article

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