北京师范大学全球变化与地球系统科学研究院
北京师范大学全球变化与地球系统科学研究院
   
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Tree-rings, a key ecological indicator of environment and climate change
Zhihua Zhang
College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street, No. 19, Beijing 100875, China
 
ABSTRACT
Due to wide spatial distribution, high annual resolution, calendar-exact dating, and high climate sensitivity, tree-rings play an important role in reconstructing past environment and climate change over the past millennium at regional, hemispheric or even global scales, so tree-rings can help us to better understand climate behaviour and its mechanisms in the past and then predict variation trends for the future.
In this paper, we will review latest advances in tree-ring-based climate reconstructions in China and their applications in modelling past local/regional climate change, capturing historical climatic extreme events, as well as analyzing their link to large-scale climate patterns.
 
Keywords: Tree-rings Ecological indicators Climate Change