Millennium-scale crossdating and inter-annual climate sensitivities of standing California redwoods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Carroll, Allyson L ^a   Sillett, Stephen C ^a   Kramer, Russell D ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW; RAIN;

AGE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDINESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT PARAMETERS; PRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAIN FOREST; SEQUOIA; SEQUOIADENDRON; SEQUOIADENDRON GIGANTEUM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SUMMER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TREE; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT);

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT VASCULAR BUNDLE; RAIN; SEASONS; SEQUOIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84904280094     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102545     Document Type: Article

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