Studying global change through investigation of the plastic responses of xylem anatomy in tree rings

P Fonti, G von Arx, I García‐González… - New …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Variability in xylem anatomy is of interest to plant scientists because of the role water
transport plays in plant performance and survival. Insights into plant adjustments to …

Distilling allometric and environmental information from time series of conduit size: the standardization issue and its relationship to tree hydraulic architecture

M Carrer, G von Arx, D Castagneri, G Petit - Tree Physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Trees are among the best natural archives of past environmental information. Xylem
anatomy preserves information related to tree allometry and ecophysiological performance …

Quantitative wood anatomy—practical guidelines

G Von Arx, A Crivellaro, AL Prendin, K Čufar… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Quantitative wood anatomy analyzes the variability of xylem anatomical features in trees,
shrubs, and herbaceous species to address research questions related to plant functioning …

ROXAS–A new tool to build centuries-long tracheid-lumen chronologies in conifers

G Von Arx, M Carrer - Dendrochronologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Measurements of tree-ring features (ring width, density, isotopes concentration, etc.) are well-
established proxies of environmental variability and, in particular, climate fluctuation at local …

Minor European broadleaved tree species are more drought-tolerant than Fagus sylvatica but not more tolerant than Quercus petraea

J Kunz, G Löffler, J Bauhus - Forest Ecology and Management, 2018 - Elsevier
More frequent and intensive droughts are projected to affect the vitality of major European
tree species. Therefore, it is important to search for alternative, more drought-tolerant …

Vessel formation in relation to leaf phenology in pedunculate oak and European ash

U Sass-Klaassen, CR Sabajo, J den Ouden - Dendrochronologia, 2011 - Elsevier
The earlywood–vessel area of ring-porous species is related to environmental factors that
prevailed during the time of vessel formation. However, limited knowledge is available on …

Xylem hydraulic adjustment and growth response of Quercus canariensis Willd. to climatic variability

G Gea-Izquierdo, P Fonti, P Cherubini… - Tree …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Global change challenges forest adaptability at the distributional limit of species. We studied
ring-porous Quercus canariensis Willd. xylem traits to analyze how they adjust to spatio …

The Climatic Response of Tree Ring Width Components of Ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) and Common Oak (Quercus robur L.) from Eastern Europe

CC Roibu, V Sfeclă, A Mursa, M Ionita, V Nagavciuc… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper aims to develop the first differentiated (earlywood—EW, latewood—LW, and total
ring width—RW) dendrochronological series for ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) and oak …

Vessel features of Quercus ilex L. growing under Mediterranean climate have a better climatic signal than tree-ring width

F Campelo, C Nabais, E Gutiérrez, H Freitas… - Trees, 2010 - Springer
We investigated whether vessel time series of Holm oak (Quercus ilex L.), a diffuse to semi-
ring-porous species, can record a climatic signal which differs from the signal encoded in …

New research perspectives from a novel approach to quantify tracheid wall thickness

AL Prendin, G Petit, M Carrer, P Fonti… - Tree …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The analysis of xylem cell anatomical features in dated tree rings provides insights into
xylem functional responses and past growth conditions at intra-annual resolution. So far …