Abstract: Climate projections for the Mediterranean area estimate a decline in total precipitation, warmer temperatures, and a higher frequency of extreme drought events. It is important to understand how trees respond to these climatic changes and which wood anatomical structures best document the trees’ response to those changes. The present work investigates the climatic signal of tree-ring width, latewood width, and the frequency of intra-annual density fluctuations (IADFs) during the last 100 years for Pinus pinaster Aiton growing in the western M...
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Topics: 
Climatology
Physical geography
Atmospheric sciences