Sampling bias overestimates climate change impacts on forest growth in the southwestern United States
Sampling strategies may bias tree-ring datasets to not accurately represent the regional response to climate change. Here, Klesse et al. use a new representative dataset to show that the International Tree-Ring Data Bank in the U.S. Southwest overestimates climate sensitivity of forests by 41–59%
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07800-y |