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Author : Coulthard, B.; Harvey, J.; and Smith, D.
Date : 2011.
Title : Dendrohydrological Investigations on the Sunshine Coast, Southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada.
Publication : Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting and Conference. May 31-June 4, 2011. University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
Issue : Program and Abstract Volume.
Page(s) : 69.
Abstract
Seasonal drought and seasonally-variable water supplies are growing issues for communities located on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia. Dendroclimatological investigations were conducted in the Chapman Creek watershed in fall 2010 to discern long-term relationships between stream discharge and a variety of climate variables including temperature, precipitation and seasonal snowpack. Tree-ring chronologies were developed from ancient yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) and mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) trees. Extreme topography and complex microclimates and have hindered some past attempts at tree-ring based climate reconstruction on the western slopes of the Coast Mountains, where limited dendroclimatological research has been conducted.
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