Fading temperature sensitivity of Alpine tree growth at its Mediterranean margin and associated effects on large-scale climate reconstructions

Climatic Change

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 651-666

  Büntgen, Ulf ^a,b   Frank, David ^a,b   Neuenschwander, Thomas ^b   Esper, Jan ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION AND VERIFICATION; CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DROUGHT INDICES; ECOLOGICAL SITES; FRENCH ALPS; GLOBAL NETWORKS; INSTRUMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LARCH-TREE; LOCAL DATA; MAXIMUM LATEWOOD DENSITY; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; STABLE ISOTOPES; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TREE GROWTH; TREE RINGS; TREE-RING WIDTH;

FORESTRY; ISOTOPES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATES; FRANCE; ISOTOPES; MEDITERRANEAN; MOUNTAINS; SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE;

ALPS; FRANCE;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA;

EID: 84865833699     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0450-4     Document Type: Article

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