Climate warming induced synchronous growth decline in Norway spruce populations across biogeographical gradients since 2000

Projecting Tree Species Composition Changes of European Forests for 2061–2090 Under RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 Scenarios

(2019) Allan Buras et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth

(2019) Flurin Babst et al.   Science Advances

Growth-climate responses indicate shifts in the competitive ability of European beech and Norway spruce under recent climate warming in East-Central Europe

(2019) Denisa Sedmáková et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

From xylogenesis to tree rings: wood traits to investigate tree response to environmental changes

(2019) Veronica De Micco et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

Disentangling the multi-faceted growth patterns of primary Picea abies forests in the Carpathian arc

(2019) Jesper Björklund et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Bark Beetle Population Dynamics in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Solutions

(2019) Peter H.W. Biedermann et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Long-term effects of environmental change and species diversity on tree radial growth in a mixed European forest

(2019) Michal Bosela et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Large-scale disturbance legacies and the climate sensitivity of primary Picea abies forests

(2018) Jonathan S. Schurman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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(2018) Christian Ammer   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increased spruce tree growth in Central Europe since 1960s

(2018) Emil Cienciala et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Higher drought sensitivity of radial growth of European beech in managed than in unmanaged forests

(2018) Katharina Mausolf et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Realizing Mitigation Efficiency of European Commercial Forests by Climate Smart Forestry

(2018) Rasoul Yousefpour et al.   Scientific Reports

When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight

(2018) Flurin Babst et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

An Ensemble Version of the E-OBS Temperature and Precipitation Data Sets

(2018) Richard C. Cornes et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Sampling bias overestimates climate change impacts on forest growth in the southwestern United States

(2018) Stefan Klesse et al.   Nature Communications

Recent spruce decline with biotic pathogen infestation as a result of interacting climate, deposition and soil variables

(2017) Emil Cienciala et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Assessing the resilience of Norway spruce forests through a model-based reanalysis of thinning trials

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Silver fir and Douglas fir are more tolerant to extreme droughts than Norway spruce in south-western Germany

(2017) Valentina Vitali et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effects of climate warming on the growth of European beech forests depend critically on thinning strategy and site productivity

(2016) Michal Bosela et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Projection of drought-inducing climate conditions in the Czech Republic according to Euro-CORDEX models

(2016) P Šteˇpánek et al.   CLIMATE RESEARCH

Effects of post-glacial phylogeny and genetic diversity on the growth variability and climate sensitivity of European silver fir

(2016) Michal Bosela et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Europes forest management did not mitigate climate warming

(2016) K. Naudts et al.   SCIENCE

Discerning environmental factors affecting current tree growth in Central Europe

(2016) Emil Cienciala et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the European Union and proposed priority areas for detailed assessment

(2016) Gergely Tóth et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

(2015) Dorothea Frank et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Small beetle, large-scale drivers: how regional and landscape factors affect outbreaks of the European spruce bark beetle

(2015) Rupert Seidl et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pollution control enhanced spruce growth in the “Black Triangle” near the Czech–Polish border

(2015) Tomáš Kolář et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Age-dependent forest carbon sink: Estimation via inverse modeling

(2015) Tao Zhou et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Social status-mediated tree-ring responses to climate of Abies alba and Fagus sylvatica shift in importance with increasing stand basal area

(2014) F. Lebourgeois et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Resilience of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst) growth to changing climatic conditions in Southwest Germany

(2014) Simon Boden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The influence of sampling design on tree-ring-based quantification of forest growth

(2014) Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do water-limiting conditions predispose Norway spruce to bark beetle attack?

(2014) Sigrid Netherer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Xylem and phloem phenology in co-occurring conifers exposed to drought

(2014) Irene Swidrak et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870

(2014) Hans Pretzsch et al.   Nature Communications

Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage

(2014) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Persisting bark beetle outbreak indicates the unsustainability of secondary Norway spruce forests: case study from Central Europe

(2013) Tomáš Hlásny et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

The LUCAS topsoil database and derived information on the regional variability of cropland topsoil properties in the European Union

(2013) Gergely Tóth et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Possible causes of the recent rapid increase in the radial increment of silver fir in the Western Carpathians

(2013) Michal Bošeľa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context

(2013) Ulf Büntgen et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Drought response of five conifer species under contrasting water availability suggests high vulnerability of Norway spruce and European larch

(2013) Mathieu Lévesque et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Drought sensitivity of Norway spruce is higher than that of silver fir along an altitudinal gradient in southwestern Germany

(2012) Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Rapid recovery of stem increment in Norway spruce at reduced SO2 levels in the Harz Mountains, Germany

(2012) Markus Hauck et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

(2012) Flurin Babst et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Temperature and precipitation fluctuations in the Czech Republic during the period of instrumental measurements

(2012) Rudolf Brázdil et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Climate change may cause severe loss in the economic value of European forest land

(2012) Marc Hanewinkel et al.   Nature Climate Change

Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

(2011) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Heavy metals, occurrence and toxicity for plants: a review

(2010) P. C. Nagajyoti et al.   Environmental Chemistry Letters

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Statistical bias correction for daily precipitation in regional climate models over Europe

(2009) C. Piani et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

A Theory-Driven Approach to Tree-Ring Standardization: Defining the Biological Trend from Expected Basal Area Increment

(2009) Franco Biondi et al.   Tree-Ring Research

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

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

On the ‘Divergence Problem’ in Northern Forests: A review of the tree-ring evidence and possible causes

(2007) Rosanne D'Arrigo et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE