Stories hidden in tree rings: A review on the application of stable carbon isotopes to dendrosciences

Strong overestimation of water‐use efficiency responses to rising CO 2 in tree‐ring studies

(2020) William Marchand et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Hanging by a thread? Forests and drought

(2020) Timothy J. Brodribb et al.   SCIENCE

Diminishing CO2-driven gains in water-use efficiency of global forests

(2020) Mark A. Adams et al.   Nature Climate Change

Shared drought responses among conifer species in the middle Siberian taiga are uncoupled from their contrasting water-use efficiency trajectories

(2020) Jordi Voltas et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Tree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale

(2019) Mathieu Levesque et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2019) Mizanur Rahman et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

North America’s oldest boreal trees are more efficient water users due to increased [CO2], but do not grow faster

(2019) Claudie Giguère-Croteau et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatio‐temporal patterns of tree growth as related to carbon isotope fractionation in European forests under changing climate

(2019) Tatiana A. Shestakova et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Disentangling the role of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance on rising forest water-use efficiency

(2019) Rossella Guerrieri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Historical changes in the stomatal limitation of photosynthesis: empirical support for an optimality principle

(2019) Aliénor Lavergne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Growth, wood anatomy and stable isotopes show species-specific couplings in three Mexican conifers inhabiting drought-prone areas

(2019) Arturo Pacheco et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Disentangling the effects of crown scorch and competition release on the physiological and growth response of Pinus halepensis Mill. using δ 13 C and δ 18 O isotopes

(2018) Teresa Valor et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A high yield cellulose extraction system for small whole wood samples and dual measurement of carbon and oxygen stable isotopes

(2018) Laia Andreu-Hayles et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Fire deficits have increased drought‐sensitivity in dry conifer forests; fire frequency and tree‐ring carbon isotope evidence from Central Oregon

(2018) Steven L. Voelker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

On the use of stable carbon isotopes to detect the physiological impact of forest management: The case of Mediterranean coppice woodland

(2017) Giovanni Di Matteo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Increasing drought effects on five European pines modulate Δ13 C-growth coupling along a Mediterranean altitudinal gradient

(2017) Tatiana A. Shestakova et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Increased water-use efficiency translates into contrasting growth patterns of Scots pine and sessile oak at their southern distribution limits

(2017) Elisabet Martínez-Sancho et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Atmospheric evidence for a global secular increase in carbon isotopic discrimination of land photosynthesis

(2017) Ralph F. Keeling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evaluating climate signal recorded in tree-ring δ13 C and δ18 O values from bulk wood and α-cellulose for six species across four sites in the northeastern US

(2017) Rossella Guerrieri et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Disentangling the effect of competition, CO2and climate on intrinsic water-use efficiency and tree growth

(2016) Laura Fernández-de-Uña et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An optimized method for stable isotope analysis of tree rings by extracting cellulose directly from cross-sectional laths

(2015) Akira Kagawa et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Comparison of δ18O and δ13C values between tree-ring whole wood and cellulose in five species growing under two different site conditions

(2015) Rosemarie B. Weigt et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

(2015) D. C. Frank et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

(2014) Matthias Saurer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Uniform climate sensitivity in tree-ring stable isotopes across species and sites in a mid-latitude temperate forest

(2014) C. Hartl-Meier et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Unravelling spatiotemporal tree-ring signals in Mediterranean oaks: a variance-covariance modelling approach of carbon and oxygen isotope ratios

(2014) T. A. Shestakova et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Stable isotopes in tree rings: towards a mechanistic understanding of isotope fractionation and mixing processes from the leaves to the wood

(2014) A. Gessler et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

Drivers of radial growth and carbon isotope discrimination of bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa Michx.) across continental gradients in precipitation, vapour pressure deficit and irradiance

(2013) STEVEN L. VOELKER et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

MAIDENiso: a multiproxy biophysical model of tree-ring width and oxygen and carbon isotopes

(2012) P.-A. Danis et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

A controlled test of the dual-isotope approach for the interpretation of stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratio variation in tree rings

(2012) J. S. Roden et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A multi-proxy approach for revealing recent climatic changes in the Russian Altai

(2011) Olga V. Sidorova et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Comparison of whole wood and cellulose carbon and oxygen isotope series from Pinus nigra ssp. laricio (Corsica/France)

(2011) S. Szymczak et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Can climate variations be inferred from tree-ring parameters and stable isotopes from Larix decidua? Juvenile effects, budmoth outbreaks, and divergence issue

(2011) V. Daux et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Cloud response to summer temperatures in Fennoscandia over the last thousand years

(2011) Mary Gagen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Assessment of tree response to drought: validation of a methodology to identify and test proxies for monitoring past environmental changes in trees

(2011) A. Tene et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The long way down--are carbon and oxygen isotope signals in the tree ring uncoupled from canopy physiological processes?

(2011) C. Offermann et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A 350 year drought reconstruction from Alpine tree ring stable isotopes

(2010) Anne Kress et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

Twentieth-century summer temperature variability in the southern Altai Mountains: A carbon and oxygen isotope study of tree-rings

(2010) N.J. Loader et al.   HOLOCENE

Variations of vessel diameter and δ13C in false rings of Arbutus unedo L. reflect different environmental conditions

(2010) Giovanna Battipaglia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A single-substrate model to interpret intra-annual stable isotope signals in tree-ring cellulose

(2009) J. OGÉE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in southwestern Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions

(2008) N.J. Loader et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Do tree ring δ13C series from Pinus sylvestris in northern Fennoscandia contain long-term non-climatic trends?

(2008) Mary Gagen et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Correlation of carbon isotope ratios in the cellulose and wood extractives of Douglas-fir

(2008) Adam M. Taylor et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Tree rings indicate different drought resistance of a native (Abies alba Mill.) and a nonnative (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) species co-occurring at a dry site in Southern Italy

(2008) Giovanna Battipaglia et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Isotopic composition (δ13C,δ18O) in wood and cellulose of Siberian larch trees for early Medieval and recent periods

(2008) Olga V. Sidorova et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon isotopes and water use efficiency: sense and sensitivity

(2008) Ulli Seibt et al.   OECOLOGIA