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- Title
Reconstruction of a 1436-year soil moisture and vegetation water use history based on tree-ring widths from Qilian junipers in northeastern Qaidam Basin, northwestern China.
- Authors
Zhi-Yong Yin; Xuemei Shao; Ningsheng Qin; Liang, Eryuan
- Abstract
The article discusses about the effects of temperature and precipitation changes in time on the tree growth of Qilian junipers (Sabina przewalskii Kom.), found along the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. According to the article, studies before had shown that water usage stress is the most restraining factor for the growth of trees in the Qaidam Basin region. A water balance modelling using a 1955-2002 meteorological data was used to evaluate the impacts of changes in temperature and precipitation. From the experiment conducted, it was concluded that the climate variability at the interannual and interdecadal scales are reflected by moisture conditions reconstructed from tree-ring widths.
- Subjects
TSAIDAM Basin (China); TIBETAN Plateau; CHINA; SOIL moisture; WATER balance (Hydrology); DENDROCLIMATOLOGY; JUNIPERS; GLOBAL temperature change research; RECORDING instruments
- Publication
International Journal of Climatology, 2008, Vol 28, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0899-8418
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/joc.1515