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Critical minimum temperature limits xylogenesis and maintains treelines on the Tibetan Plateau
Xiaoxia Li, Eryuan Liang, Jozica Gricar…·Aaron M. Ellison
The paper tests the hypothesis that a critical minimum temperature limits xylogenesis at treelines, finding a CTmin of 0.7±0.4°C for tree-ring formation on the Tibetan Plateau.
DOI 10.1101/093781