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Investigating the growth periodicity, stable carbon isotope trend and climate reconstruction potential of Akoko (Euphorbia olowaluana), A native Hawaiian C4 tree on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, using tree ring analysis

Author:
Ben, Tishanna
Title:
Investigating the growth periodicity, stable carbon isotope trend and climate reconstruction potential of Akoko (Euphorbia olowaluana), A native Hawaiian C4 tree on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, using tree ring analysis
Periodical:
Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science
Year:
2016
Volume:
M.S.
Subject:
Mamane Sophora chrysophylla Akoko Euphorbia olowaluana Subalpine forests Mauna Kea Climate change Carbon isotope ratios
Summary:
The author evaluated growth increment periodicity and the stable isotope ratios of carbon in two woody plant species, Māmane (Sophora chrysophylla, C3) and Akoko (Euphorbia olowaluana, C4), from a rather dry, high elevation habitat on the ridge between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. The result showed that Akoko may provide a record of past atmospheric CO2 concentration that can be compared with the well-known Keeling curve.
URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/10790/2746
Date:
April 2016
Collection:
Monographs