The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras

DW Stahle, ER Cook, DJ Burnette, J Villanueva… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Mexico has suffered a long history and prehistory of severe sustained drought. Drought over
Mexico is modulated by ocean-atmospheric variability in the Atlantic and Pacific, raising the …

On the 'divergence problem'in northern forests: a review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

R D'Arrigo, R Wilson, B Liepert, P Cherubini - Global and planetary change, 2008 - Elsevier
An anomalous reduction in forest growth indices and temperature sensitivity has been
detected in tree-ring width and density records from many circumpolar northern latitude sites …

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA)
motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of …

Warm springs alter timing but not total growth of temperate deciduous trees

C Dow, AY Kim, L D'Orangeville, EB Gonzalez-Akre… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
As the climate changes, warmer spring temperatures are causing earlier leaf-out,–and
commencement of CO2 uptake, in temperate deciduous forests, resulting in a tendency …

Climate-driven introduction of the Black Death and successive plague reintroductions into Europe

BV Schmid, U Büntgen, WR Easterday… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The Black Death, originating in Asia, arrived in the Mediterranean harbors of Europe in 1347
CE, via the land and sea trade routes of the ancient Silk Road system. This epidemic marked …

New perspective on spring vegetation phenology and global climate change based on Tibetan Plateau tree-ring data

B Yang, M He, V Shishov, I Tychkov… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Phenological responses of vegetation to climate, in particular to the ongoing warming trend,
have received much attention. However, divergent results from the analyses of remote …

Rapid warming accelerates tree growth decline in semi‐arid forests of Inner Asia

H Liu, A Park Williams, CD Allen, D Guo… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Forests around the world are subject to risk of high rates of tree growth decline and
increased tree mortality from combinations of climate warming and drought, notably in semi …

Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought

L D'Orangeville, J Maxwell, D Kneeshaw… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Projected changes in temperature and drought regime are likely to reduce carbon (C)
storage in forests, thereby amplifying rates of climate change. While such reductions are …

Site‐and species‐specific responses of forest growth to climate across the E uropean continent

F Babst, B Poulter, V Trouet, K Tan… - Global Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To evaluate the climate sensitivity of model‐based forest productivity estimates using a
continental‐scale tree‐ring network. Location E urope and N orth A frica (30–70° N, 10° W …

Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, V Herrmann… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tree rings provide an invaluable long‐term record for understanding how climate and other
drivers shape tree growth and forest productivity. However, conventional tree‐ring analysis …