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Tree growth response to recent warming of two endemic species in Northeast Asia

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Weather fluctuations drive short‐term dynamics and long‐term stability in plant communities: a 25‐year study in a Central European dry grassland

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Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

(2020) Ingmar R. Staude et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Climate warming drives Himalayan alpine plant growth and recruitment dynamics

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Contrasting species decline but high sensitivity to increasing water stress on a mixed pine–oak ecotone

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Tree-ring-based disturbance reconstruction in interdisciplinary research: Current state and future directions

(2020) Jan Altman   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought

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Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change

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Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline

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Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth

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Seed germination responses to seasonal temperature and drought stress are species-specific but not related to seed size in a desert steppe: Implications for effect of climate change on community structure

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Seedling traits predict drought-induced mortality linked to diversity loss

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Climate at ecologically relevant scales: A new temperature and soil moisture logger for long-term microclimate measurement

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Increased soil temperature and decreased precipitation during early life stages constrain grass seedling recruitment in cold desert restoration

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Belowground annual ring growth coordinates with aboveground phenology and timing of carbon storage in two tallgrass prairie forb species

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Past the climate optimum: Recruitment is declining at the world's highest juniper shrublines on the Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Xiaoming Lu et al.   ECOLOGY

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

(2018) Ulf Büntgen   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Climate warming as a driver of tundra shrubline advance

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Application of herb chronology: Annual fertilization and climate reveal annual ring signatures within the roots of US tallgrass prairie plants

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Correcting the calculation of Gleichläufigkeit

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Temperature-induced recruitment pulses of Arctic dwarf shrub communities

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(2015) Jill T. Anderson   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature and drought drive differences in germination responses between congeneric species along altitudinal gradients

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Exploring rock fissures: does a specialized root morphology explain endemism on granite outcrops?

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The performance of Mediterranean subshrubs depends more on microsite than on regional climate conditions

(2012) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Mediterranean dwarf shrubs and coexisting trees present different radial-growth synchronies and responses to climate

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(2008) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

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