Isotope Dendrochronology in China

Liu Yu, State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xian, China

liuruoshi88@hotmail.com

Steven W. Leavitt, LTRR, The University of Arizona

Dr. Zheng-Hua Li, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1410 zli@utk.edu

Dr. Malcolm K. Hughes, LTRR, The University of Arizona mhughes@ltrr.arizona.edu

Dr. Gregg Garfin (coring in Qinling Mts. below), Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, University of Arizona gmgarfin@u.arizona.edu

Publications:

Leavitt, S.W., Liu, Y., Hughes, M.K., Liu, R., An, Z., Gutierrez, G.M., Danzer, S.R. and Shao, X., 1995. A single-year d¹³C chronology from Pinus tabulaeformis (Chinese pine) tree rings at Huangling, China. Radiocarbon 37: 605-610.

Leavitt, S.W., Hughes, M.K., Liu, Y., and An, Z., 1995. Stable-carbon isotope tree-ring chronologies from Xian, China. In Tree Rings from the Past to the Future, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Asian and Pacific Dendrochronology, Tsukuba, Japan, March 4-9, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute Scientific Meeting Report 1 (ISSN 1341-1969), Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 182-186.

Liu, Y., Ma, L., Leavitt, S.W., Cai, Q., and Liu, W., 2004. Seasonal precipitation reconstruction from tree-ring stable carbon isotopes at Mt. Helan, China, since AD 1804. Global and Planetary Change 41: 229-239.

Liu, Y., Leavitt, S.W., Hughes, M.K., and Wu, X., 1996. Stable carbon isotopes in tree rings from Huangling, China, and climate variation. Science in China (Series D) 39: 152-161.