Dendroecological perspectives on climate change on the southern Tibetan plateau

Climate Change, Glacier Response, and Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya: Contributions Toward Future Earth Initiatives

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 347-364

  Bräuning, Achim ^a   Grießinger, Jussi ^a   Hochreuther, Philipp ^a   Wernicke, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate reconstruction; Dendroecology; Glacier history; Stable isotopes; Tibetan plateau; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CELLULAR MANUFACTURING; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; REPAIR;

CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; DENDROECOLOGY; STABLE ISOTOPES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TREE RINGS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 85017052711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28977-9_17     Document Type: Chapter

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