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 …

Marine climate in the Irish Sea: analysis of a 489-year marine master chronology derived from growth increments in the shell of the clam Arctica islandica

PG Butler, CA Richardson, JD Scourse… - Quaternary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
We demonstrate here that the growth increment variability in the shell of the long-lived
bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica can be interpreted as an indicator of marine environmental …

Tree growth influenced by warming winter climate and summer moisture availability in northern temperate forests

JE Harvey, M Smiljanić, T Scharnweber… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The role of future forests in global biogeochemical cycles will depend on how different tree
species respond to climate. Interpreting the response of forest growth to climate change …

A theory-driven approach to tree-ring standardization: defining the biological trend from expected basal area increment

F Biondi, F Qeadan - Tree-Ring Research, 2008 - BioOne
One of the main elements of dendrochronological standardization is removing the biological
trend, ie the progressive decline of ring width along a cross-sectional radius that is caused …

Drought matters–Declining precipitation influences growth of Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus robur L. in north-eastern Germany

T Scharnweber, M Manthey, C Criegee… - Forest Ecology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
For north-eastern Germany regional climate models project rising temperatures in
combination with decreasing summer and increasing winter precipitation. The resulting …

Torneträsk tree-ring width and density ad 500–2004: a test of climatic sensitivity and a new 1500-year reconstruction of north Fennoscandian summers

H Grudd - Climate dynamics, 2008 - Springer
This paper presents updated tree-ring width (TRW) and maximum density (MXD) from
Torneträsk in northern Sweden, now covering the period ad 500–2004. By including data …

Bioclimatology of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in the Eastern Alps: spatial and altitudinal climatic signals identified through a tree‐ring network

A Di Filippo, F Biondi, K Čufar, M De Luis… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To identify the dominant spatial patterns of Fagus sylvatica radial growth in the Eastern
Alps, and to understand their relationships to climate variation and bioclimatic gradients …

Spatial and seasonal variations of sand-dust events and their relation to atmospheric conditions and vegetation cover in semi-arid regions of central Iran

ZE Khusfi, M Khosroshahi, F Roustaei, M Mirakbari - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Atmospheric conditions and physical characteristics of the earth surface have an important
effect on the spatiotemporal variations of sand-dust events. The main objective of the …

Recent drought stress leads to growth reductions in Larix sibirica in the western Khentey, Mongolia

C Dulamsuren, M Hauck, C Leuschner - Global change biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Trends in air temperature and precipitation in the forest‐steppe ecotone of the western
Khentey, northern Mongolia were studied and related to stem increment and shoot water …

Individualistic and time-varying tree-ring growth to climate sensitivity

M Carrer - PLoS One, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The development of dendrochronological time series in order to analyze climate-growth
relationships usually involves first a rigorous selection of trees and then the computation of …