When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro-and prospective insight

F Babst, P Bodesheim, N Charney, AD Friend… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The demand for large-scale and long-term information on tree growth is increasing rapidly
as environmental change research strives to quantify and forecast the impacts of continued …

A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

F Babst, MR Alexander, P Szejner, O Bouriaud… - Oecologia, 2014 - Springer
Tree-ring records can provide valuable information to advance our understanding of
contemporary terrestrial carbon cycling and to reconstruct key metrics in the decades …

No growth stimulation of Canada's boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO2 fertilization

MP Girardin, O Bouriaud, EH Hogg… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Considerable evidence exists that current global temperatures are higher than at any time
during the past millennium. However, the long-term impacts of rising temperatures and …

The influence of sampling design on tree‐ring‐based quantification of forest growth

C Nehrbass‐Ahles, F Babst, S Klesse… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tree‐rings offer one of the few possibilities to empirically quantify and reconstruct forest
growth dynamics over years to millennia. Contemporaneously with the growing scientific …

Diverse relationships between forest growth and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index at a global scale

SM Vicente-Serrano, JJ Camarero, JM Olano… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study compared the densest available database of tree-ring growth with the longest
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) information available at the global scale to …

Ecological forecasting of tree growth: Regional fusion of tree‐ring and forest inventory data to quantify drivers and characterize uncertainty

KA Heilman, MC Dietze, AA Arizpe… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Robust ecological forecasting of tree growth under future climate conditions is critical to
anticipate future forest carbon storage and flux. Here, we apply three ingredients of …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term growth decline precedes sudden crown dieback of European beech

A Neycken, M Scheggia, C Bigler… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) has strongly suffered from the exceptional 2018
drought and subsequent dry years that hit Central Europe. While many trees showed severe …

Recent climatic drying leads to age‐independent growth reductions of white spruce stands in western Canada

EH Hogg, M Michaelian, TI Hook… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Since 2001, climatic conditions have been notably drier than normal across large areas of
the western Canadian interior, leading to widespread impacts on the forests of this region …

Empirical and process-based models predict enhanced beech growth in European mountains under climate change scenarios: A multimodel approach

M Bosela, Á Rubio-Cuadrado, P Marcis… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Process-based models and empirical modelling techniques are frequently used to (i)
explore the sensitivity of tree growth to environmental variables, and (ii) predict the future …

Climate change evidence in tree growth and stand productivity at the upper treeline ecotone in the Polar Ural Mountains

NM Devi, VV Kukarskih, АA Galimova, VS Mazepa… - Forest …, 2020 - Springer
Background Recent warming is affecting species composition and species areal distribution
of many regions. However, although most treeline studies have estimated the rates of forest …