... treesare becoming increasingly important [8,9,31,55,65]. In China,tree ring chronologies studies started in the 1930s [34, 64].Since then, research using tree rings has been conducted tounderstand ... farther inland and the continental climateis dominant. Our research on Chinese pines in Fuling [8, 9] and Qianshan [8] also confirms the pattern above. Further-more, the relationship between PDO and ... PDO and GSATA has beenrecorded by tree rings of Chinese pine. SSN, PDO and GSATAhave great effects on Chinese pine growth in our study area by in uencing local climates, especially in the growing...