Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts

A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

(2020) Bernhard Schuldt et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evidence of elevation-specific growth changes of spruce, fir, and beech in European mixed-mountain forests during the last three centuries

(2020) Hans Pretzsch et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on pre‐drought growth conditions

(2020) Arun K. Bose et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Low stand density moderates growth declines during hot droughts in semi‐arid forests

(2020) Caitlin M. Andrews et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Determinants of legacy effects in pine trees – implications from an irrigation‐stop experiment

(2020) Roman Zweifel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Long-term thinning effects on tree growth, drought response and water use efficiency at two Aleppo pine plantations in Spain

(2020) Àngela Manrique-Alba et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Quantifying Growth Responses of Trees to Drought—a Critique of Commonly Used Resilience Indices and Recommendations for Future Studies

(2020) Julia Schwarz et al.   Current Forestry Reports

Temporal trade-off between gymnosperm resistance and resilience increases forest sensitivity to extreme drought

(2020) Xiangyi Li et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

(2020) Cornelius Senf et al.   Nature Communications

What is the potential of silver fir to thrive under warmer and drier climate?

(2019) Yann Vitasse et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Linking forest growth with stand structure: Tree size inequality, tree growth or resource partitioning and the asymmetry of competition

(2019) David I. Forrester   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring frost in five major European tree species

(2019) Yann Vitasse et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seasonality matters—The effects of past and projected seasonal climate change on the growth of native and exotic conifer species in Central Europe

(2018) Valentina Vitali et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Know Your Neighbours: Drought Response of Norway Spruce, Silver Fir and Douglas Fir in Mixed Forests Depends on Species Identity and Diversity of Tree Neighbourhoods

(2018) Valentina Vitali et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Stability of tree increment in relation to episodic drought in uneven-structured, mixed stands in southwestern Germany

(2018) Adrian Dănescu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought

(2018) Loïc D'Orangeville et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought timing influences the legacy of tree growth recovery

(2018) Mengtian Huang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantifying climate-growth relationships at the stand level in a mature mixed-species conifer forest

(2018) Aaron Teets et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Diversity and forest productivity in a changing climate

(2018) Christian Ammer   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Employing stable isotopes to determine the residence times of soil water and the temporal origin of water taken up by Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies in a temperate forest

(2018) Nadine Brinkmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Changes in tree resistance, recovery and resilience across three successive extreme droughts in the northeast Iberian Peninsula

(2018) X. Serra-Maluquer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

(2018) Mark E. Olson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought

(2018) Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Predicting Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances and Their Mitigation

(2018) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Triggers of tree mortality under drought

(2018) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Having the right neighbors: how tree species diversity modulates drought impacts on forests

(2018) Charlotte Grossiord   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2018) Stefan Klesse et al.   Nature Communications

Is thinning an alternative when trees could die in response to drought? The case of planted Pinus nigra and P. Sylvestris stands in southern Spain

(2018) Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Modelling the variation of bark thickness within and between European silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) trees in southwest Germany

(2017) Stefan M Stängle et al.   FORESTRY

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

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Density-dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought

(2017) Alessandra Bottero et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effects of crown architecture and stand structure on light absorption in mixed and monospecific Fagus sylvatica and Pinus sylvestris forests along a productivity and climate gradient through Europe

(2017) David Ian Forrester et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species interactions increase the temporal stability of community productivity in Pinus sylvestris-Fagus sylvatica mixtures across Europe

(2017) Miren del Río et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Nitrogen nutrition of beech forests in a changing climate: importance of plant-soil-microbe water, carbon, and nitrogen interactions

(2017) Judy Simon et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Forest disturbances under climate change

(2017) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Competition amplifies drought stress in forests across broad climatic and compositional gradients

(2017) Kelly E. Gleason et al.   Ecosphere

Measurement and prediction of bark thickness in Picea abies: assessment of accuracy, precision, and sample size requirements

(2016) Stefan M. Stängle et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Heavy and frequent thinning promotes drought adaptation inPinus sylvestrisforests

(2016) Julia A. Sohn et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Does belowground interaction with Fagus sylvatica increase drought susceptibility of photosynthesis and stem growth in Picea abies?

(2016) M. Goisser et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

(2016) Julia A. Sohn et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Future ecosystem services from European mountain forests under climate change

(2016) Marco Mina et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Drought responses by individual tree species are not often correlated with tree species diversity in European forests

(2016) David I. Forrester et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an extreme drought

(2016) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Structural diversity promotes productivity of mixed, uneven-aged forests in southwestern Germany

(2016) Adrian Dănescu et al.   OECOLOGIA

Importance of tree height and social position for drought-related stress on tree growth and mortality

(2016) Rüdiger Grote et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

REVIEW: Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services

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

Distinct effects of climate warming on populations of silver fir (Abies alba) across Europe

(2015) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Improvement of water and light availability after thinning at a xeric site: which matters more? A dual isotope approach

(2015) Arnaud Giuggiola et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

(2015) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and Resilience of Ecosystem Functions

(2015) Tom H. Oliver et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

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

Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: linking patterns and processes

(2014) Tommaso Jucker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Light absorption and light-use efficiency in mixtures of Abies alba and Picea abies along a productivity gradient

(2014) David I. Forrester et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Suitability of close-to-nature silviculture for adapting temperate European forests to climate change

(2014) P. Brang et al.   FORESTRY

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

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

Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought

(2014) C. Grossiord et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The past ecology ofAbies albaprovides new perspectives on future responses of silver fir forests to global warming

(2013) Willy Tinner et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Cross-scale interactions among bark beetles, climate change, and wind disturbances: a landscape modeling approach

(2013) Christian Temperli et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Does Drought Influence the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Boreal Forests?

(2013) Charlotte Grossiord et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Complementarity in mixed-species stands of Abies alba and Picea abies varies with climate, site quality and stand density

(2013) David I. Forrester et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mitigation of drought by thinning: Short-term and long-term effects on growth and physiological performance of Norway spruce (Picea abies)

(2013) Julia A. Sohn et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The spatial and temporal dynamics of species interactions in mixed-species forests: From pattern to process

(2013) David I. Forrester   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

A 2 °C warmer world is not safe for ecosystem services in the European Alps

(2013) Ché Elkin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Adaptive management for competing forest goods and services under climate change

(2012) Christian Temperli et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Driving factors of a vegetation shift from Scots pine to pubescent oak in dry Alpine forests

(2012) Andreas Rigling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Resistance of European tree species to drought stress in mixedversuspure forests: evidence of stress release by inter-specific facilitation

(2012) H. Pretzsch et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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

(2012) Marc Hanewinkel et al.   Nature Climate Change

Consequences of widespread tree mortality triggered by drought and temperature stress

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Extracting environmentally driven growth trends from diameter increment series based on a multiplicative decomposition model

(2011) Chaofang Yue et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

Stand structure modulates the long-term vulnerability of Pinus halepensis to climatic drought in a semiarid Mediterranean ecosystem

(2011) CRISTINA MORENO-GUTIÉRREZ et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Xylem function and growth rate interact to determine recovery rates after exposure to extreme water deficit

(2010) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients

(2010) Holger Schielzeth   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Individual-tree growth dynamics of mature Abies alba during repeated irregular group shelterwood (Femelschlag) cuttings

(2009) Klaus J. Puettmann et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

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

A dendrochronology program library in R (dplR)

(2008) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA