Reduced climate sensitivity of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios in tree-ring cellulose of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) influenced by background SO2 in Franconia (Germany, Central Europe)

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 185, Issue , 2014, Pages 281-294

  Boettger, Tatjana ^a   Haupt, Marika ^a   Friedrich, Michael ^b   Waterhouse, John S ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Climate sensitivity; Isotopes; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CELLULOSE; FORESTRY; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

BACKGROUND EMISSIONS; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLIMATIC SIGNALS; ISOTOPE SIGNATURES; REGIONAL LEVELS; SILVER FIR (ABIES ALBA MILL.); STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS; TREE RINGS;

ISOTOPES;

CARBON 13; DEUTERIUM; OXYGEN 18; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DUST; EMISSION INVENTORY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TREE RING;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GERMANY; NONHUMAN; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT WATER USE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CELLULOSE; FORESTRY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

FRANCONIA; GERMANY;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA;

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; ISOTOPES; TREE-RINGS;

ABIES; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE; GERMANY; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; SULFUR DIOXIDE; WOOD;

EID: 84889658072     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.10.030     Document Type: Article

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