Unusual Southern Hemisphere tree growth patterns induced by changes in the Southern Annular Mode

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 793-798

  Villalba, Ricardo ^a   Lara, Antonio ^b   Masiokas, Mariano H ^a   Urrutia, Rocío ^b   Luckman, Brian H ^c   Marshall, Gareth J ^d   Mundo, Ignacio A ^a   Christie, Duncan A ^b   Cook, Edward R ^e   Neukom, Raphael ^f,g   Allen, Kathryn ^h   Fenwick, Pavla ⁱ   Boninsegna, José A ^a   Srur, Ana M ^a   Morales, Mariano S ^a   Araneo, Diego ^a   Palmer, Jonathan G ⁱ   Cuq, Emilio ^b   Aravena, Juan C ^j   Holz, Andrés ^k   Lequesne, Carlos ^b   more..

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^g SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ Gondwana Tree Ring Laboratory   (New Zealand)

^j Centro Regional Fundación CEQUA   (Chile)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TREE RING; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AUSTRALIA; NEW ZEALAND; PATAGONIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84868595412     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1613     Document Type: Article

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