Oxygen isotopes in tree rings are a good proxy for Amazon precipitation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation variability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 42, 2012, Pages 16957-16962

  Brienen, Roel J W ^a,b   Helle, Gerd ^c   Pons, Thijs L ^b   Guyot, Jean Loup ^d   Gloor, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Peru)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendrochronology; Plant physiology

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; CEDRELA; CEDRELA ODORATA; DISTILLATION; EL NINO; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PLANT STRUCTURES; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TREE RING; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR;

BOLIVIA; CEDRELA; CLIMATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PLANT STEMS; RAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867637133     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205977109     Document Type: Article

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