Trends in tree growth and intrinsic water-use efficiency in the tropics under elevated CO2 and climate change

Tree-ring record in Ethiopian church forests reveals successive generation differences in growth rates and disturbance events

(2018) Abrham Abiyu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Xylem anatomical responses of diffuse porous Chukrasia tabularis to climate in a South Asian moist tropical forest

(2018) Mahmuda Islam et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Xylem hydraulic safety and construction costs determine tropical tree growth

(2018) Cleiton B. Eller et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Unexpected reversal of C3versus C4grass response to elevated CO2during a 20-year field experiment

(2018) Peter B. Reich et al.   SCIENCE

Growth-Ring Boundary Anatomy and Dendrochronological Potential in a Moist Tropical Forest in Northeastern Bangladesh

(2018) Mahmuda Islam et al.   Tree-Ring Research

Tree radial growth is projected to decline in South Asian moist forest trees under climate change

(2018) Mizanur Rahman et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Changes in Sensitivity of Tree-Ring Widths to Climate in a Tropical Moist Forest Tree in Bangladesh

(2018) Mizanur Rahman et al.   Forests

Long-Term Hydraulic Adjustment of Three Tropical Moist Forest Tree Species to Changing Climate

(2018) Mahmuda Islam et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Species-specific growth resilience to drought in a mixed semi-deciduous tropical moist forest in South Asia

(2018) Mizanur Rahman et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Impact of extreme drought on tree-ring width and vessel anatomical features of Chukrasia tabularis

(2018) Mahmuda Islam et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Long-term wood anatomical time series of two ecologically contrasting tropical tree species reveal differential hydraulic adjustment to climatic stress

(2018) Mahmuda Islam et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Age and growth rate of congeneric tree species (Hymenaea spp. - Leguminosae) inhabiting different tropical biomes

(2017) Giuliano M. Locosselli et al.   Erdkunde

Towards establishing a new environmental archive – Annual growth periodicity, stable carbon isotope variability and reconstruction potential of 'Akoko (Euphorbia olowaluana), a native Hawaiian tree with C4 photosynthetic pathway

(2017) Tishanna Ben et al.   Erdkunde

Stable isotopes in tropical tree rings: theory, methods and applications

(2017) Peter van der Sleen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Does increasing intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) stimulate tree growth at natural alpine timberline on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau?

(2017) Ru Huang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Multi-century tree-ring precipitation record reveals increasing frequency of extreme dry events in the upper Blue Nile River catchment

(2017) Mulugeta Mokria et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Trends in tropical tree growth: re-analyses confirm earlier findings

(2017) Peter van der Sleen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The impact of tree age on biomass growth and carbon accumulation capacity: A retrospective analysis using tree ring data of three tropical tree species grown in natural forests of Suriname

(2017) Michael Köhl et al.   PLoS One

Late Holocene relative humidity history on the southeastern Tibetan plateau inferred from a tree-ring δ 18 O record: Recent decrease and conditions during the last 1500 years

(2017) Jussi Grießinger et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

(2017) A. Baccini et al.   SCIENCE

Earlywood and Latewood Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Variations in Two Pine Species in Southwestern China during the Recent Decades

(2017) Pei-Li Fu et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Climate, intrinsic water-use efficiency and tree growth over the past 150 years in humid subtropical China

(2017) Dawen Li et al.   PLoS One

Influence of the Indian Ocean Dipole on tree-ring δ18O of monsoonal Southeast Tibet

(2016) Philipp Hochreuther et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Tree demography dominates long-term growth trends inferred from tree rings

(2016) Roel J. W. Brienen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Life in the clouds: are tropical montane cloud forests responding to changes in climate?

(2016) Jia Hu et al.   OECOLOGIA

Amazon rainforest to get a growth check

(2016) D. Grossman   SCIENCE

The Impacts of Droughts in Tropical Forests

(2016) Richard T. Corlett   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Reconstruction of seasonal precipitation in Hawai'i using high-resolution carbon isotope measurements across tree rings

(2015) Brian A. Schubert et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Hydro-climatic variability in southern Ecuador reflected by tree-ring oxygen isotopes

(2015) Franziska Volland et al.   Erdkunde

Tree dieback affects climate change mitigation potential of a dry afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia

(2015) Mulugeta Mokria et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Wet season precipitation during the past century reconstructed from tree-rings of a tropical dry forest in Southern Ecuador

(2015) Darwin Pucha-Cofrep et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Detecting long-term growth trends using tree rings: a critical evaluation of methods

(2015) Richard L. Peters et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

No evidence for consistent long-term growth stimulation of 13 tropical tree species: results from tree-ring analysis

(2015) Peter Groenendijk et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) L. Poorter et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2015) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   NATURE

Diverse patterns of stored water use among saplings in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2015) Brett T. Wolfe et al.   OECOLOGIA

An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

(2015) J. W. Ferry Slik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diel growth dynamics in tree stems: linking anatomy and ecophysiology

(2015) Kathy Steppe et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

Recovery of Physiological Traits in Saplings of Invasive Bischofia Tree Compared with Three Species Native to the Bonin Islands under Successive Drought and Irrigation Cycles

(2015) Kenichi Yazaki et al.   PLoS One

Environmental change and the carbon balance of Amazonian forests

(2014) Luiz E. O. C. Aragão et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Allocation trade-offs dominate the response of tropical forest growth to seasonal and interannual drought

(2014) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

(2014) Matthias Saurer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size

(2014) N. L. Stephenson et al.   NATURE

No growth stimulation of tropical trees by 150 years of CO2 fertilization but water-use efficiency increased

(2014) Peter van der Sleen et al.   Nature Geoscience

A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

(2014) Flurin Babst et al.   OECOLOGIA

Responses of tree species to heat waves and extreme heat events

(2014) ROBERT TESKEY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Understanding recruitment failure in tropical tree species: Insights from a tree-ring study

(2013) Mart Vlam et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

No evidence for long-term increases in biomass and stem density in the tropical rain forests of Australia

(2013) Helen T. Murphy et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

(2013) Peter M. Cox et al.   NATURE

Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

(2013) Chris Huntingford et al.   Nature Geoscience

Differential Growth Responses to Water Balance of Coexisting Deciduous Tree Species Are Linked to Wood Density in a Bolivian Tropical Dry Forest

(2013) Hooz A. Mendivelso et al.   PLoS One

A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years

(2013) S. A. Marcott et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical forests and global change: filling knowledge gaps

(2013) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Field-quantified responses of tropical rainforest aboveground productivity to increasing CO2and climatic stress, 1997-2009

(2013) Deborah A. Clark et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Detecting evidence for CO2fertilization from tree ring studies: The potential role of sampling biases

(2012) Roel J. W. Brienen et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

A climate change-induced threat to the ecological resilience of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest in Southern China

(2012) Guoyi Zhou et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Probing for the influence of atmospheric CO2and climate change on forest ecosystems across biomes

(2012) Lucas C. R. Silva et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Oxygen isotopes in tree rings are a good proxy for Amazon precipitation and El Nino-Southern Oscillation variability

(2012) R. J. W. Brienen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Variability in solar radiation and temperature explains observed patterns and trends in tree growth rates across four tropical forests

(2012) S. X. Dong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dendrochronology in Southeast Asia

(2012) Nathsuda Pumijumnong   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

A multi-proxy dendroecological analysis of two tropical species (Hymenaea spp., Leguminosae) growing in a vegetation mosaic

(2012) Giuliano Maselli Locosselli et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Tropical forest warming: looking backwards for more insights

(2012) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Detecting trends in tree growth: not so simple

(2012) David M.J.S. Bowman et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Ecological Lessons from Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments

(2011) Richard J. Norby et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

An In Situ Leaf and Branch Warming Experiment in the Amazon

(2011) Christopher E. Doughty   BIOTROPICA

Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature

(2011) A. Park Williams et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Observational and model evidence of global emergence of permanent, unprecedented heat in the 20th and 21st centuries

(2011) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species’ drought and shade tolerance

(2011) Lars Markesteijn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global vegetation and terrestrial carbon cycle changes after the last ice age

(2011) I. C. Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Recent trends in the intrinsic water-use efficiency of ringless rainforest trees in Borneo

(2011) N. J. Loader et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impacts of warming on tropical lowland rainforests

(2011) Richard T. Corlett   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Regional Differences in South American Monsoon Precipitation Inferred from the Growth and Isotopic Composition of Tropical Trees*

(2010) A. P. Ballantyne et al.   Earth Interactions

Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

(2010) Peter M. Vitousek et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

High-temperature tolerance of a tropical tree,Ficus insipida: methodological reassessment and climate change considerations

(2010) G. Heinrich Krause et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Long-term increases in intrinsic water-use efficiency do not lead to increased stem growth in a tropical monsoon forest in western Thailand

(2010) CHARLES A. NOCK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Long tree-ring chronologies reveal 20th century increases in water-use efficiency but no enhancement of tree growth at five Iberian pine forests

(2010) LAIA ANDREU-HAYLES et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence of changing intrinsic water-use efficiency under rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Boreal Fennoscandia from subfossil leaves and tree ring δ13C ratios

(2010) MARY GAGEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change

(2010) Patrick Gonzalez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Increased water-use efficiency during the 20th century did not translate into enhanced tree growth

(2010) Josep Peñuelas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Towards a reconstruction of Blue Nile baseflow from Ethiopian tree rings

(2010) Tommy H.G. Wils et al.   HOLOCENE

Long-term tree growth rate, water use efficiency, and tree ring nitrogen isotope composition of Pinus massoniana L. in response to global climate change and local nitrogen deposition in Southern China

(2010) Fangfang Sun et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

(2010) Martin Jung et al.   NATURE

Multiple mechanisms of Amazonian forest biomass losses in three dynamic global vegetation models under climate change

(2010) David Galbraith et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Photosynthetic responses of two eucalypts to industrial-age changes in atmospheric [CO2] and temperature

(2010) OULA GHANNOUM et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Recent Widespread Tree Growth Decline Despite Increasing Atmospheric CO2

(2010) Lucas C. R. Silva et al.   PLoS One

High-resolution forest carbon stocks and emissions in the Amazon

(2010) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An exceptional role for flowering plant physiology in the expansion of tropical rainforests and biodiversity

(2010) C. K. Boyce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Differential responses to changes in growth temperature between trees from different functional groups and biomes: a review and synthesis of data

(2010) D. A. Way et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Stable-Carbon Isotope Time Series from Tropical Tree Rings Indicate a Precipitation Signal

(2010) Esther Fichtler et al.   Tree-Ring Research

Assessing long-term changes in tropical forest dynamics: a first test using tree-ring analysis

(2010) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Relationships of stable carbon isotopes, plant water potential and growth: an approach to asses water use efficiency and growth strategies of dry land agroforestry species

(2010) Aster Gebrekirstos et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Ages and long-term growth patterns of four threatened Vietnamese tree species

(2010) Pieter A. Zuidema et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Dendroecology in the tropics: a review

(2010) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Stable carbon isotopes in tree rings indicate improved water use efficiency and drought responses of a tropical dry forest tree species

(2010) Roel J. W. Brienen et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Stable carbon isotope ratios in tree rings of co-occurring species from semi-arid tropics in Africa: Patterns and climatic signals

(2009) Aster Gebrekirstos et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Thermal plasticity of photosynthesis: the role of acclimation in forest responses to a warming climate

(2009) CARLA A. GUNDERSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Past century changes inAraucaria angustifolia(Bertol.) Kuntze water use efficiency and growth in forest and grassland ecosystems of southern Brazil: implications for forest expansion

(2009) LUCAS C. R. SILVA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate-growth analysis for a Mexican dry forest tree shows strong impact of sea surface temperatures and predicts future growth declines

(2009) ROEL J. W. BRIENEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

(2009) DAVID B. CLARK et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Elevated CO2 effects on plant carbon, nitrogen, and water relations: six important lessons from FACE

(2009) Andrew D. B. Leakey et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Long-term variation in Amazon forest dynamics

(2009) Susan G. W. Laurance et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests

(2009) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species

(2009) Lourens Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Tropical tree rings reveal preferential survival of fast-growing juveniles and increased juvenile growth rates over time

(2009) Danaë M. A. Rozendaal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Attaining the canopy in dry and moist tropical forests: strong differences in tree growth trajectories reflect variation in growing conditions

(2009) Roel J. W. Brienen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Tracing carbon and oxygen isotope signals from newly assimilated sugars in the leaves to the tree-ring archive

(2009) ARTHUR GESSLER et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Midday depression of leaf CO2 exchange within the crown of Dipterocarpus sublamellatus in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Peninsular Malaysia

(2009) Yoshiko Kosugi et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Detecting invisible growth rings of trees in seasonally dry forests in Thailand: isotopic and wood anatomical approaches

(2009) Shinta Ohashi et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Clustered disturbances lead to bias in large-scale estimates based on forest sample plots

(2008) Jeremy I. Fisher et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Are tropical forests near a high temperature threshold?

(2008) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Deciduousness in a seasonal tropical forest in western Thailand: interannual and intraspecific variation in timing, duration and environmental cues

(2008) Laura J. Williams et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of rising temperatures and [CO2] on the physiology of tropical forest trees

(2008) J. Lloyd et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Climate–growth relationships of the dominant tree species from semi-arid savanna woodland in Ethiopia

(2008) Aster Gebrekirstos et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Assessing Evidence for a Pervasive Alteration in Tropical Tree Communities

(2008) Jérôme Chave et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY