Continuing upward trend in Mt Read Huon pine ring widths - Temperature or divergence?

KJ Allen; ER Cook; BM Buckley; SH Larsen; DM Drew; GM Downes; RJ Francey; MJ Peterson; PJ Baker

Journal article

Continuing upward trend in Mt Read Huon pine ring widths - Temperature or divergence?

KJ Allen, ER Cook, BM Buckley, SH Larsen, DM Drew, GM Downes, RJ Francey, MJ Peterson, PJ Baker

Quaternary Science Reviews | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.003

University of Melbourne Researchers

Patrick Baker Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Kathy Allen Author Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank two anonymous reviewers whose comments have greatly improved this work. Michael Grose provided the AWAP data and Wasyl Drosdowsky kindly provided the Drosdowsky L-index based on eastern Australian stations. We thank David Pepper for advice concerning implied assimilation increases in the Mt Read trees related to the CO<INF>2</INF> fertilisation effect. This research was supported by the Australian Research Council research grant DP 120104320 and Future Fellowship FT120100715 to PJB, and by Herman Slade foundation grant HSF 09/5 to DD, GD, KA and PJB. Parks Tasmania granted permission to resample the Mt Read site in early 2010. Michael Goddard and Scott Nichols assisted with editing.