Climate signals derived from cell anatomy of scots pine in NE Germany

Tree Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 833-844

  Liang, Wei ^a   Heinrich, Ingo ^a   Simard, Sonia ^a   Helle, Gerhard ^a   Liñán, Isabel Dorado ^a   Heinken, Thilo ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell structure; Dendroclimatology; Pinus sylvestris; Quantitative wood anatomy; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CONIFEROUS TREE; CYTOLOGY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TREE RING; WOOD;

GERMANY;

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL WALL; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PLANT STEM; QUANTITATIVE WOOD ANATOMY; SCOTS PINE; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TREE RINGS; WOOD;

CELL STRUCTURE; DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; QUANTITATIVE WOOD ANATOMY; TREE RINGS;

CELL WALL; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT STEMS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 84887937863     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpt059     Document Type: Article

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