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Shifting potential for high-resolution climate reconstructions under global warming

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A multi-scale dendroclimatological analysis of four common species in the southern Canadian boreal forest

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Twentieth Century Changes in the Climate Response of Yellow Pines in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S.A.

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A Test for Nonlinearity in Temperature Proxy Records

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Interpreting Larix principis-rupprechtii radial growth in northern China based on the Vaganov-Shashkin model

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May–June relative humidity variation recorded by tree ring widths of Pinus armandii Franch since 1863 in the Funiu Mountains, central China

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An assessment of the correlations and causations of palaeo-hydroclimatic variability in India’s monsoon-dominated Central Himalaya

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