Quantifying antecedent climatic drivers of tree growth in the Southwestern US

Agriculture & Biology

• tree growth 100%
• climate 74%
• drought 40%
• growth rings 23%
• Pinus edulis 17%
• dates (fruit) 16%
• Pinus ponderosa 13%
• autocorrelation 12%
• Pseudotsuga menziesii 11%
• conifers 10%
• weather 9%
• climate change 8%
• temperature 8%
• carbohydrates 7%
• synthesis 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• drought 33%
• arrival date 28%
• climate conditions 25%
• monsoon 21%
• climate 18%
• tree ring 18%
• index 17%
• antecedent conditions 12%
• modeling 10%
• climate variation 10%
• climate effect 9%
• coniferous tree 8%
• carbohydrate 8%
• autocorrelation 8%
• chronology 7%
• temperature 6%
• timescale 6%
• effect 5%
• weather 5%