Increasing carbon discrimination rates and depth of water uptake favor the growth of Mediterranean evergreen trees in the ecotone with temperate deciduous forests

Larix decidua δ 18 O tree-ring cellulose mainly reflects the isotopic signature of winter snow in a high-altitude glacial valley of the European Alps

(2017) Giovanni Leonelli et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Impact of Leaf Traits on Temporal Dynamics of Transpired Oxygen Isotope Signatures and Its Impact on Atmospheric Vapor

(2017) Maren Dubbert et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Sub-annual variability in historical water source use by Mediterranean riparian trees

(2016) Christopher I. Sargeant et al.   Ecohydrology

Consistent limitation of growth by high temperature and low precipitation from range core to southern edge of European beech indicates widespread vulnerability to changing climate

(2016) A. J. Hacket-Pain et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

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

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Highest drought sensitivity and lowest resistance to growth suppression are found in the range core of the tree Fagus sylvatica L. not the equatorial range edge

(2016) Liam Cavin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of droughts on the growth resilience of Northern Hemisphere forests

(2016) A. Gazol et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Sequence of plant responses to droughts of different timescales: lessons from holm oak (Quercus ilex) forests

(2016) Adrià Barbeta et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Illuminating hydrological processes at the soil-vegetation-atmosphere interface with water stable isotopes

(2016) Matthias Sprenger et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Site-specific water-use strategies of mountain pine and larch to cope with recent climate change

(2016) Olga V. Churakova (Sidorova) et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Living on the Edge: Contrasted Wood-Formation Dynamics in Fagus sylvatica and Pinus sylvestris under Mediterranean Conditions

(2016) Edurne Martinez del Castillo et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Contrasting growth and water use strategies in four co-occurring Mediterranean tree species revealed by concurrent measurements of sap flow and stem diameter variations

(2015) Elisenda Sánchez-Costa et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Prior height, growth, and wood anatomy differently predispose to drought-induced dieback in two Mediterranean oak speciesk

(2015) J. Julio Camarero et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

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

Growth duration is a better predictor of stem increment than carbon supply in a Mediterranean oak forest: implications for assessing forest productivity under climate change

(2015) Morine Lempereur et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

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

Growth cessation uncouples isotopic signals in leaves and tree rings of drought-exposed oak trees

(2015) Ellen E. Pflug et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die-off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

(2015) Craig D. Allen et al.   Ecosphere

treeclim: an R package for the numerical calibration of proxy-climate relationships

(2014) Christian Zang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Drought-induced mortality selectively affects Scots pine trees that show limited intrinsic water-use efficiency responsiveness to raising atmospheric CO2

(2014) Ana-Maria Hereş et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

The combined effects of a long-term experimental drought and an extreme drought on the use of plant-water sources in a Mediterranean forest

(2014) Adrià Barbeta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Diverse responses of forest growth to drought time-scales in the Northern Hemisphere

(2014) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Seasonal transfer of oxygen isotopes from precipitation and soil to the tree ring: source water versus needle water enrichment

(2014) Kerstin Treydte et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought-induced increase in water-use efficiency reduces secondary tree growth and tracheid wall thickness in a Mediterranean conifer

(2014) José Miguel Olano et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Local adaptations to frost in marginal and central populations of the dominant forest treeFagus sylvaticaL. as affected by temperature and extreme drought in common garden experiments

(2014) Juergen Kreyling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Growth response to climate and drought change along an aridity gradient in the southernmost Pinus nigra relict forests

(2013) J. Julio Camarero et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Intensity and timing of warming and drought differentially affect growth patterns of co-occurring Mediterranean tree species

(2013) Elena Granda et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Disparity in elevational shifts of European trees in response to recent climate warming

(2013) Sonia G. Rabasa et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dampening effects of long-term experimental drought on growth and mortality rates of a Holm oak forest

(2013) Adrià Barbeta et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Growth and carbon isotopes of Mediterranean trees reveal contrasting responses to increased carbon dioxide and drought

(2013) Elena Granda et al.   OECOLOGIA

A retrospective, dual-isotope approach reveals individual predispositions to winter-drought induced tree dieback in the southernmost distribution limit of Scots pine

(2013) JORDI VOLTAS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Drought impact on water use efficiency and intra-annual density fluctuations inErica arboreaon Elba (Italy)

(2013) GIOVANNA BATTIPAGLIA et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Inter- and intra-annual stable carbon and oxygen isotope signals in response to drought in Mediterranean pines

(2012) Dimitrios Sarris et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

Is the dual-isotope conceptual model fully operational?

(2012) J. Roden et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Applying the dual-isotope conceptual model to interpret physiological trends under uncontrolled conditions

(2012) H. R. Barnard et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Regional hydroclimate and precipitation δ18O revealed in tree-ring cellulose δ18O from different tree species in semi-arid Northern China

(2011) Qiang Li et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Reduced tree health and seedling production in fragmented Fagus sylvatica forest patches in the Montseny Mountains (NE Spain)

(2011) Adrià Barbeta et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Tree-rings reflect the impact of climate change on Quercus ilex L. along a temperature gradient in Spain over the last 100years

(2011) G. Gea-Izquierdo et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

(2011) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increase in water-use efficiency and underlying processes in pine forests across a precipitation gradient in the dry Mediterranean region over the past 30 years

(2011) Kadmiel Maseyk et al.   OECOLOGIA

Widespread crown condition decline, food web disruption, and amplified tree mortality with increased climate change-type drought

(2011) J. Carnicer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming

(2011) I.-C. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

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

Climate controls act at different scales on the seasonal pattern of Quercus ilex L. stem radial increments in NE Spain

(2011) Emilia Gutiérrez et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

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

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

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

Competition modulates the adaptation capacity of forests to climatic stress: insights from recent growth decline and death in relict stands of the Mediterranean firAbies pinsapo

(2010) Juan Carlos Linares et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Climate-growth variability in Quercus ilex L. west Iberian open woodlands of different stand density

(2009) Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Differences between tree species seedling and adult altitudinal distribution in mountain forests during the recent warm period (1986-2006)

(2009) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

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

Ecohydrologic separation of water between trees and streams in a Mediterranean climate

(2009) J. Renée Brooks et al.   Nature Geoscience

Oxygen stable isotope ratios of tree-ring cellulose: the next phase of understanding

(2009) Leonel da Silveira Lobo O’Reilly Sternberg   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Competition and drought limit the response of water-use efficiency to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide in the Mediterranean fir Abies pinsapo

(2009) Juan-Carlos Linares 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

The altitude-for-latitude disparity in the range retractions of woody species

(2009) Alistair S. Jump et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A dendrochronology program library in R (dplR)

(2008) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Twentieth century changes of tree-ring δ13C at the southern range-edge of Fagus sylvatica: increasing water-use efficiency does not avoid the growth decline induced by warming at low altitudes

(2008) JOSEP PEÑUELAS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An investigation of the common signal in tree ring stable isotope chronologies at temperate sites

(2008) M. Saurer et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont

(2008) B. Beckage et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE