Reconstruction of soil moisture for the past 100 years in eastern Siberia by using δ13C of larch tree rings

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1256-1265

  Tei, Shunsuke ^a   Sugimoto, Atsuko ^a   Yonenobu, Hitoshi ^b   Yamazaki, Takeshi ^c   Maximov, Trofim C ^d  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARUTO UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF CRYOLITHOZONE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

carbon isotope; eastern Siberia; permafrost; soil moisture; taiga; tree ring

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT STRESS; PERMAFROST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; TREE RING;

SIBERIA;

LARIX;

EID: 84886649557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20110     Document Type: Article

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