Individual and pooled tree-ring stable-carbon isotope series in Chinese pine from the Nan Wutai region, China: Common signal and climate relationships

Chemical Geology

Volumn 330-331, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-26

  Liu, Yu ^a,b   Wang, Ruiyuan ^a,c   Leavitt, Steven W ^d   Song, Huiming ^a,c   Linderholm, Hans W ^e   Li, Qiang ^a   An, Zhisheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cellulose; Climate response; Nan Wutai China; Pinus tabulaeformis; Pooling; Stable carbon isotope

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; CLIMATE RESPONSE; CLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; CLIMATIC SIGNALS; GROWING SEASON; INDIVIDUAL TREE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; NAN WUTAI CHINA; PINUS TABULAEFORMIS; PLANT GROWTH; POOLING; STABLE ISOTOPE DATA; TIME INTERVAL; TREE RINGS; WOOD SAMPLES;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; ISOTOPES; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE RING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; CHINA; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; METEOROLOGY; PINUS TABULAEFORMIS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

CHINA; QINLING MOUNTAINS;

PINUS TABULIFORMIS;

EID: 84865845295     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.08.008     Document Type: Article

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