Tree-ring chronologies are widely used to reconstruct high-to low-frequency variations in growing season temperatures over centuries to millennia. The relevance of these timeseries …
E Liang, Y Wang, S Piao, X Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The alpine treeline is commonly regarded as being sensitive to climatic warming because regeneration and growth of trees at treeline generally are limited by low temperature. The …
Forests around the world are subject to risk of high rates of tree growth decline and increased tree mortality from combinations of climate warming and drought, notably in semi …
Birch (Betula) trees and forests are found across much of the temperate and boreal zones of the Northern Hemisphere. Yet, despite being an ecologically significant genus, it is not well …
Semi-arid forests at the limit of their existence close to the Gobi Desert in Inner Asia might be vulnerable to warming-induced drought stress. Yet, not much is known about the impact of …
Q Ge, Z Hao, J Zheng, X Shao - Climate of the Past, 2013 - cp.copernicus.org
We use principal component regression and partial least squares regression to separately reconstruct a composite series of temperature variations in China, and associated …
E Liang, Y Wang, D Eckstein, T Luo - New Phytologist, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
As one of the world's highest natural tree lines, the Smith fir (Abies georgei var. smithii) tree line on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau is expected to vary as a function of climate …