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 …

Widespread spring phenology effects on drought recovery of Northern Hemisphere ecosystems

Y Li, W Zhang, CR Schwalm, P Gentine… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The time required for an ecosystem to recover from severe drought is a key component of
ecological resilience. The phenology effects on drought recovery are, however, poorly …

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

CD Allen, DD Breshears, NG McDowell - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated
broad‐scale forest die‐off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter …

Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

PA Zuidema, F Babst, P Groenendijk, V Trouet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Interannual variability in the global land carbon sink is strongly related to variations in
tropical temperature and rainfall. This association suggests an important role for moisture …

Piecing together the fragments: elucidating edge effects on forest carbon dynamics

IA Smith, LR Hutyra, AB Reinmann… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Forest fragmentation is pervasive throughout the world's forests, impacting growing
conditions and carbon (C) dynamics through edge effects that produce gradients in …

Impacts of droughts on the growth resilience of Northern Hemisphere forests

A Gazol, JJ Camarero, WRL Anderegg… - Global Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The intensity and frequency of drought have increased considerably during recent
decades in some Northern Hemisphere forested areas, and future climate warming could …

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 …

Reassessment of growth-climate relations indicates the potential for decline across Eurasian boreal larch forests

W Li, RD Manzanedo, Y Jiang, W Ma, E Du… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Larch, a widely distributed tree in boreal Eurasia, is experiencing rapid warming across
much of its distribution. A comprehensive assessment of growth on warming is needed to …

Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species' growth response to drought across biomes

X Serra‐Maluquer, A Gazol… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tree species display a wide variety of water‐use strategies, growth rates and capacity to
tolerate drought. However, if we want to forecast species capacity to cope with increasing …

Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth

ND Charney, F Babst, B Poulter, S Record… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting long‐term trends in forest growth requires accurate characterisation of how the
relationship between forest productivity and climatic stress varies across climatic regimes …