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a north-south direction provides the opportunity to examine the relationships
between
N. pumilio
growth and climate along a temperature gradient from the
subtropical central Andes to the sub-Antarctic Tierra del Fuego.
Box Fig. 7.5
Nothofagus pumilio
chronologies in the Patagonian Andes
Nothofagus
chronologies from upper tree line have been used to recon-
struct past temperature fluctuations for the northern and southern sectors of
the southern Andes. The reconstructions describe a well-defined cold interval
from ~1640 to 1850, which conforms with the consensus view of the 'Little
Ice Age' (LIA), a term commonly used to describe these cold episodes on a
Relationships between temperature reconstructions in southern South
America and sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the South Pacific and South
