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Tree rings and climate /
A review of the current status of the interdisciplinary field of dendroclimatology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Academic Press,
1976.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Tree Rings and Climate; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Dedication; Chapter 1. Dendrochronology and Dendroclimatology; I. Introduction; II. Historical Background; III. Scope of Dendrochronology; IV. Some Basic Principles and Concepts of Dendrochronology; V. Dendroclimatic Procedures and Analyses; VI. Examples of Analysis; VII. Further Definitions and Concepts; VIII. The Climate-Growth System and its Dendroclimatological Significance; Chapter 2. Growth and Structure; I. Introduction; II. Gross Structure; III. The Vascular Cambium; IV. Growth-A Variable Process.
- v. Variations in Shoot GrowthVI. Variations in Radial Growth; VII. Phenology and Its Relation to Ring Growth; VIII. Systematic Variations in the Width and Cell Structure of Annual Rings; IX. Growth of Roots; X. Significance of Growth and Structure to Dendroclimatology; Chapter 3. Basic Physiological Processes: Movement of Materials and Water Relations; I. Limiting Factors and Plant Processes; II. Some General Terms and Basic Concepts; III. Cell Water Status; IV. Transpiration; V. Soil Moisture; VI. The Soil System and Factors Affecting its Development; VII. Absorption of Water.
- VIII. Internal Water Relations of TreesIX. Moisture Stress and Tree Form; X. Soil Factors Affecting Root Growth, Ring-width Sensitivity, and Longevity; XI. Uptake of Mineral Salts; XII. Translocation; Chapter 4. Basic Physiological Processes: Food Synthesis and Assimilation of Cell Constituents; I. Introduction; II. Photosynthesis and Respiration; III. Synthesis of Foods and Assimilation; IV. Measurement of Photosynthesis and Respiration; V. Factors Affecting Photosynthesis and Respiration; VI. The Annual Net Photosynthetic Regime for a Pinus Ponderosa on a Semiarid Site.
- VII. Some Implications of these Physiological MeasurementsVIII. The Distribution of Foods and Interactions with Growth; IX. Essential Mineral Salts; X. Growth-Regulating Substances; Xl. Physiological Preconditioning and Correlating Systems; XII. Changes in the Physiological Seasons with Varying Elevation of the Tree Sites; Chapter 5. The Climate-Growth System; I. Introduction; II. The Energy and Water Balances; III. Site Factors which can Modify the Energy Balance; IV. Biotic and Other Nonclimatic Factors: Dendrochronological Examples.
- v. Modeling Relationships in the Ring-Width and Climatic SystemVI. A Model for Factors Affecting Cambial Activity and hence Ring Width; VII. Modeling the Effects of Temperature and Precipitation on Ring Width; VIII. The Concept of the Climatic Window
- IX. The Concept of the Response Function; X. Suitability and Limitations of the Growth Model; Chapter 6. The Statistics of Ring-Width and Climatic Data; I. Reliability of Measurements; II. General Statistics; III. Standardization; IV. Filtering Techniques; V. Other Methods for Assessing the Growth Curves; VI. Analysis of Variance. VII. Analysis of Chronology Error.