Long-term effects of drought on tree-ring growth and carbon isotope variability in Scots pine in a dry environment

The fate and age of carbon - insights into the storage and remobilization dynamics in trees

(2016) Arthur Gessler et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Paradigm shift in plant growth control

(2015) Christian Körner   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

To die or not to die: early warnings of tree dieback in response to a severe drought

(2015) J. Julio Camarero et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Survival vs. growth trade-off in early recruitment challenges global warming impacts on Mediterranean mountain trees

(2015) Raquel Benavides et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

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

Comparative Drought Responses of Quercus ilex L. and Pinus sylvestris L. in a Montane Forest Undergoing a Vegetation Shift

(2015) David Aguadé et al.   Forests

Growth response of five co-occurring conifers to drought across a wide climatic gradient in Central Europe

(2014) Mathieu Lévesque et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Norway spruce physiological and anatomical predisposition to dieback

(2014) Rainer Hentschel et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

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

(2014) Matthias Saurer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nine Years of Irrigation Cause Vegetation and Fine Root Shifts in a Water-Limited Pine Forest

(2014) Claude Herzog et al.   PLoS One

Growth-Mortality Relationships in Piñon Pine (Pinus edulis) during Severe Droughts of the Past Century: Shifting Processes in Space and Time

(2014) Alison K. Macalady et al.   PLoS One

Unthinned slow-growing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) trees contain muted isotopic signals in tree rings as compared to thinned trees

(2014) Julia A. Sohn et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Effects of past growth trends and current water use strategies on Scots pine and pubescent oak drought sensitivity

(2013) T. Morán-López et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

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

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

Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise

(2013) Trevor F. Keenan et al.   NATURE

Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling

(2013) Simone Fatichi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Does carbon storage limit tree growth?

(2013) Sara Palacio et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Growth and stable isotope signals associated with drought-related mortality in saplings of two coexisting pine species

(2013) Asier Herrero et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

KNMI Climate Explorer: A Web-Based Research Tool for High-Resolution Paleoclimatology

(2013) Valerie Trouet et al.   Tree-Ring Research

Global change-type drought-induced tree mortality: vapor pressure deficit is more important than temperature per se in causing decline in tree health

(2013) Derek Eamus et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

(2012) Claus Beier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2012) Andreas Rigling et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine?

(2012) A. Sala et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Drought alters timing, quantity, and quality of wood formation in Scots pine

(2011) B. Eilmann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

High-temperature pyrolysis/gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry: simultaneous measurement of the stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon in cellulose

(2011) Ewan J. Woodley et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Associations between growth, wood anatomy, carbon isotope discrimination and mortality in a Quercus robur forest

(2011) T. Levanic et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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

A Multiscalar Global Drought Dataset: The SPEIbase: A New Gridded Product for the Analysis of Drought Variability and Impacts

(2010) Santiago Beguería et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Drought-Induced Multifactor Decline of Scots Pine in the Pyrenees and Potential Vegetation Change by the Expansion of Co-occurring Oak Species

(2010) L. Galiano et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A New Global 0.5° Gridded Dataset (1901–2006) of a Multiscalar Drought Index: Comparison with Current Drought Index Datasets Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index

(2010) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

The mechanisms of carbon starvation: how, when, or does it even occur at all?

(2010) Nate G. McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Physiological mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality are far from being resolved

(2010) Anna Sala et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The blind men and the elephant: the impact of context and scale in evaluating conflicts between plant hydraulic safety and efficiency

(2010) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

(2010) A. P. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effect of irrigation on needle morphology, shoot and stem growth in a drought-exposed Pinus sylvestris forest

(2010) M. Dobbertin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The core-microtome: A new tool for surface preparation on cores and time series analysis of varying cell parameters

(2009) Holger Gärtner et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

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

Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance

(2009) Frederick C. Meinzer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Impact of climate and CO2 on a millennium-long tree-ring carbon isotope record

(2009) Kerstin S. Treydte et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Growth, carbon-isotope discrimination, and drought-associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect

(2009) NATE G. McDOWELL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Intra-annual variation in the stable oxygen and carbon isotope ratios of cellulose in tree rings of coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)

(2009) John S. Roden et al.   HOLOCENE

Increased early growth rates decrease longevities of conifers in subalpine forests

(2009) Christof Bigler et al.   OIKOS

Lack of direct evidence for the carbon-starvation hypothesis to explain drought-induced mortality in trees

(2009) A. Sala   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A novel approach for the homogenization of cellulose to use micro‐amounts for stable isotope analyses

(2009) W. Laumer et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Morphological and physiological responses of Scots pine fine roots to water supply in a dry climatic region in Switzerland

(2009) I. Brunner et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere

(2008) Danny McCarroll et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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