maximum latewood density subalpine boreal climate temperature reconstruction tree ring
We used ring-width (RW) and maximum latewood density (MLD) chronologies for high-elevation Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis Dougl. ex Forbes) from the Coastal Western Hemlock zone near Vancouver, British Columbia to reconstruct April to September mean temperatures for the 1770 -1990 period. The reconstruction was based on a calibration and verification procedure. The best reconstruction result was achieved when both RW and MLD chronologies were utilized. The reconstruction agreed with that produced for interior British Columbia from densitometric data. We suggest that rings of Pacific silver fir, growing under the influence of a perhumid maritime cool mesothermal and subalpine boreal climates in the Pacific Northwest, can serve as proxy-climate indicators
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Title
Reconstructing temperature from tree rings of Pacific silver fir in Coastal British Columbia
Creators
Jaroslav Dobry (Author)
Karel Klinka (Author)
Publication Details
Northwest science., Vol.72(2), pp.81-87
Academic Unit
Northwest Science
Publisher
WSU Press
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99900501057201842
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In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess