Continental-scale Projection of Future Douglas-fir Growth from Tree Rings: Testing the Limits of Space-for-Time Substitution

Margaret Evans1, Stefan Klesse2, Robert J DeRose3, Flurin Babst2, Leander DL Anderegg4, Jodi N Axelson4, Bryan Black5, Ailene Ettinger6, Hardy Griesbauer7, Christopher H Guiterman8, Grant L. Harley9, Jill E Harvey10, Yueh-Hsin Lo11, Ann M Lynch12, Chirstopher O'Connor13, Christina Restaino14, David Sauchyn15, John Shaw16, Dan J Smith17, Lisa Wood18 and Jose Villanueva Diaz19, (1)Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (3)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (6)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, Prince George, BC, Canada, (8)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (10)220 Hafnarfjordur, Iceland, (11)Universidad Publica de Navarra, Department of Science, Pamplona, Spain, (12)Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (13)US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT, United States, (14)University of Davis, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Davis, CA, United States, (15)University of Regina, Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative (PARC), Regina, SK, Canada, (16)US Forest Service, Logan, UT, United States, (17)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (18)University of Northern British Columbia, Ecosystem Science and Management, Prince George, Canada, (19)Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Laboratorio de Dendrocronologia, Gómez Palacio, Mexico