Stable isotopes in leaf water of terrestrial plants

LA Cernusak, MM Barbour, SK Arndt… - Plant, Cell & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf water contains naturally occurring stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen in
abundances that vary spatially and temporally. When sufficiently understood, these can be …

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 …

Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years

K Treydte, L Liu, RS Padrón, E Martínez-Sancho… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The vapor pressure deficit reflects the difference between how much moisture the
atmosphere could and actually does hold, a factor that fundamentally affects …

[HTML][HTML] Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198–1196 BC

SW Manning, C Kocik, B Lorentzen, JP Sparks - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The potential of climate change to substantially alter human history is a pressing concern,
but the specific effects of different types of climate change remain unknown. This question …

Potential of forest thinning to mitigate drought stress: A meta-analysis

JA Sohn, S Saha, J Bauhus - Forest Ecology and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Increasing frequency of extremely dry and hot summers in some regions emphasise the
need for silvicultural approaches to increase the drought tolerance of existing forests in the …

Global tree intrinsic water use efficiency is enhanced by increased atmospheric CO2 and modulated by climate and plant functional types

JM Mathias, RB Thomas - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We conducted a meta-analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes from tree ring chronologies
representing 34 species across 10 biomes to better understand the environmental drivers …

Tree vitality and forest health: can tree-ring stable isotopes be used as indicators?

P Cherubini, G Battipaglia, JL Innes - Current Forestry Reports, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Society is concerned about the long-term condition of the
forests. Although a clear definition of forest health is still missing, to evaluate forest health …

Unenriched xylem water contribution during cellulose synthesis influenced by atmospheric demand governs the intra‐annual tree‐ring δ18O signature

E Martínez‐Sancho, LA Cernusak, P Fonti… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The oxygen isotope composition (δ18O) of tree‐ring cellulose is used to evaluate tree
physiological responses to climate, but their interpretation is still limited due to the …

Anthropogenic warming has exacerbated droughts in southern Europe since the 1850s

W An, C Xu, SB Marković, S Sun, Y Sun… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Widespread and frequent droughts have affected most parts of Europe over recent years, but
it remains unclear when this synchronous drying trend began and how it has been …

Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes–challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary …

D Penna, L Hopp, F Scandellari, ST Allen… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
In this commentary, we summarize and build upon discussions that emerged during the
workshop “Isotope-based studies of water partitioning and plant–soil interactions in forested …