... University of British Columbia, for provid-ing a french translation of the abstract and title. The financial support provided by the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada, BC Ministry of Forests, and ... climate as the major determi-nant of tree growth, and the concerns about the impact of climatic change on forest growth, the aim of the presentstudy was to quantify the influence of local and ... negative-ly to August precipitation, indicating that latewood formation was favored by warm, sunny, and – therefore– relatively dry weather in August. In addition, LW and LW% showed a negative...