AUTHOR=Fan Beixi , Yang Bao , Li Gang TITLE=Assessing the influence of local environment, regional climate and tree species on radial growth in the Hexi area of arid northwest China JOURNAL=Frontiers in Plant Science VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.1046462 DOI=10.3389/fpls.2022.1046462 ISSN=1664-462X ABSTRACT=
Radial growth is influenced by the local environment, regional climate, and tree species. Assessing the influence of these variables on radial growth can help to reveal the relationships between tree growth and the environment. Here, we used standard dendrochronological approach to explore the response of radial growth to climate factors. We reported ring-width (TRW) residual chronologies from five sites along a longitudinal gradient in the Hexi area, arid northwestern China, based on a total of 249 Qinghai spruce (