Who is the new sheriff in town regulating boreal forest growth

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ID15545797
AuthorsPark Williams (0000-0001-8176-8166, Los Alamos National Laboratory, corresponding author), Chonggang Xu (0000-0002-0937-5744, Los Alamos National Laboratory), Nate G McDowell (0000-0002-2178-2254, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Year2011
Volume6
Issue4
Pages041004-041004
Publication date2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Research Letters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326
PublisherIOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/041004
OpenAlexW2143546664
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

Climate change appears to be altering boreal forests. One recently observed symptom of these changes has been an apparent weakening of the positive relationship between high-latitude boreal tree growth and temperature at some sites (D'Arrigo et al 2008). This phenomenon is referred to as the 'divergence problem' or 'divergence effect' and is thought to reflect a non-linear relationship between temperature and tree growth, where recent warming has allowed other factors besides growing-season temperature to emerge as dominant regulators of annual growth rates

Atmospheric sciences · Biology · Boreal · Climate change · Climatology · Dendrochronology · Divergence (linguistics · Geography · Growing season · Latitude · Physical geography · Taiga · Environmental Science · Forest ecology and management · Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics · Tree-ring climate responses · Ecology · Forestry · Geology

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