Detection and evaluation of an early divergence problem in northern Fennoscandian tree-ring data

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 559-566

  Schneider, Lea ^a   Esper, Jan ^a   Timonen, Mauri ^b   Büntgen, Ulf ^c,d,e  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH RESPONSE; LATITUDE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

FENNOSCANDIA;

PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 84898803208     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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