Response of the relationship between radial growth and climatic factors to abrupt change of temperature along an altitudinal gradient on the northern slope of Changbai Mountain,Northeast China
The radial growth of trees is affected by complex environment. To predict the radial growth dynamics of Pinus koraiensis in the context of climate change,tree ring cores of P. koraiensis were collected from sampling sites at different elevations( 745 m a. s. l.,1134 m a. s. l.,and 1280 m a. s. l.) on the northern slope of Changbai Mountain. Using a dendrochronological method,we investigated the variability in the responses of radial growth to climatic factors and the temporal stability of the responses at d...