Negligible local-factor influences on tree ring cellulose δ18O of Qilian juniper in the Animaqing Mountains of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Chenxi Xu; Xuemei Shao; Wenling An; Takeshi Nakatsuka; Yong Zhang; Masaki Sano; Zhengtang Guo

doi:10.1080/16000889.2017.1391663

Negligible local-factor influences on tree ring cellulose δ18O of Qilian juniper in the Animaqing Mountains of the eastern Tibetan Plateau

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 69 (2017): Issue 1

By: Chenxi Xu, Xuemei Shao, Wenling An, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Yong Zhang, Masaki Sano and Zhengtang Guo

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/16000889.2017.1391663 | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889

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Submitted on: May 25, 2017

Accepted on: Oct 5, 2017

Published on: Jan 1, 2017

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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Keywords:

Tibetan Plateau,

tree ring oxygen isotopes,

Qilian juniper,

juvenile effect,

altitude effect

© 2017 Chenxi Xu, Xuemei Shao, Wenling An, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Yong Zhang, Masaki Sano, Zhengtang Guo, published by Stockholm University Press
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