A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

Toward consistent measurements of carbon accumulation: A multi-site assessment of biomass and basal area increment across Europe

(2014) Flurin Babst et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

The legacy of episodic climatic events in shaping temperate, broadleaf forests

(2014) Neil Pederson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Tree-ring δ 13C tracks flux tower ecosystem productivity estimates in a NE temperate forest

(2014) Soumaya Belmecheri et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Estimating above-ground biomass of trees: comparing Bayesian calibration with regression technique

(2014) Jürgen Zell et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size

(2014) N. L. Stephenson et al.   NATURE

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Increased water-use efficiency does not lead to enhanced tree growth under xeric and mesic conditions

(2014) Mathieu Lévesque et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The imprint of climate within Northern Hemisphere trees

(2014) Scott St. George et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Satellite retrievals of leaf chlorophyll and photosynthetic capacity for improved modeling of GPP

(2013) Rasmus Houborg et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Recent trends in Inner Asian forest dynamics to temperature and precipitation indicate high sensitivity to climate change

(2013) Benjamin Poulter et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Nonstructural Carbon in Woody Plants

(2013) Michael C. Dietze et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Comparing forest measurements from tree rings and a space-based index of vegetation activity in Siberia

(2013) Andrew G Bunn et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Unusual forest growth decline in boreal North America covaries with the retreat of Arctic sea ice

(2013) Martin P. Girardin et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2trends

(2013) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Chilling outweighs photoperiod in preventing precocious spring development

(2013) Julia Laube et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Lengthening of the duration of xylogenesis engenders disproportionate increases in xylem production

(2013) Sergio Rossi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Twenty-First-Century Compatible CO2Emissions and Airborne Fraction Simulated by CMIP5 Earth System Models under Four Representative Concentration Pathways

(2013) Chris Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Nitrogen deposition and forest carbon

(2013) Beverly Law   NATURE

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Long-term stem CO2concentration measurements in Norway spruce in relation to biotic and abiotic factors

(2013) Sophia Etzold et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Assessing leaf photoprotective mechanisms using terrestrial LiDAR: towards mapping canopy photosynthetic performance in three dimensions

(2013) Troy S. Magney et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO2concentration: from the geological past to the next century

(2013) Peter J. Franks et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Above-ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites

(2013) Flurin Babst et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature modulates intra-plant growth of Salix polaris from a high Arctic site (Svalbard)

(2013) Agata Buchwal et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past 10,000 years

(2013) R. Kelly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intra-annual dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in the cambium of mature conifer trees reflects radial growth demands

(2013) S. Simard et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Impacts of disturbance on the terrestrial carbon budget of North America

(2013) Eric S. Kasischke et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

(2012) Andrew D. Richardson et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Climatic drivers of hourly to yearly tree radius variations along a 6°C natural warming gradient

(2012) Gregory King et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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

Fluctuations of cambial activity in relation to precipitation result in annual rings and intra-annual growth zones of xylem and phloem in teak (Tectona grandis) in Ivory Coast

(2012) Agathe Dié et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Climate–growth relationships at different stem heights in silver fir and Norway spruce

(2012) Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A large-scale coherent signal of canopy status in maximum latewood density of tree rings at arctic treeline in North America

(2012) Pieter S.A. Beck et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

CO2fertilization and enhanced drought resistance in Greek firs from Cephalonia Island, Greece

(2012) Athanasios Koutavas   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Using model-data fusion to interpret past trends, and quantify uncertainties in future projections, of terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling

(2012) Trevor F. Keenan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Historical drought trends revisited

(2012) Sonia I. Seneviratne   NATURE

Elevated CO2increases tree-level intrinsic water use efficiency: insights from carbon and oxygen isotope analyses in tree rings across three forest FACE sites

(2012) Giovanna Battipaglia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pervasive Growth Reduction in Norway Spruce Forests following Wind Disturbance

(2012) Rupert Seidl et al.   PLoS One

Cambial Growth Season of Brevi-Deciduous Brachystegia spiciformis Trees from South Central Africa Restricted to Less than Four Months

(2012) Valérie Trouet et al.   PLoS One

Is the dual-isotope conceptual model fully operational?

(2012) J. Roden et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Seasonal cambial activity of five tropical tree species in central Thailand

(2012) Nathsuda Pumijumnong et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Tree-ring growth and intra-annual density fluctuations of Pinus pinaster responses to climate: does size matter?

(2012) Filipe Campelo et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

(2012) Jan Esper et al.   Nature Climate Change

Detection of high-wind events using tree-ring data

(2011) Keith S. Hadley et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The effects of land use and climate change on the carbon cycle of Europe over the past 500 years

(2011) Jed O. Kaplan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada

(2011) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Empirical models for radial and tangential fibre width in tree rings of Norway spruce in north-western Europe

(2011) Tony Franceschini et al.   HOLZFORSCHUNG

Coherent Region-, Species-, and Frequency-Dependent Local Climate Signals in Northern Hemisphere Tree-Ring Widths*

(2011) Justin J. Wettstein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Recent rates of forest harvest and conversion in North America

(2011) Jeffrey G. Masek et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Testing for a CO2fertilization effect on growth of Canadian boreal forests

(2011) Martin P. Girardin et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

High-latitude tree growth and satellite vegetation indices: Correlations and trends in Russia and Canada (1982–2008)

(2011) Logan T. Berner et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Interpreting tree responses to thinning and fertilization using tree-ring stable isotopes

(2011) J. Renée Brooks et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Seasonal patterns of carbon allocation to respiratory pools in 60-yr-old deciduous (Fagus sylvatica) and evergreen (Picea abies) trees assessed via whole-tree stable carbon isotope labeling

(2011) Daniel Kuptz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf-out phenology of temperate woody plants: from trees to ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A. Polgar et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The model–data fusion pitfall: assuming certainty in an uncertain world

(2011) Trevor F. Keenan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Water stress, shoot growth and storage of non-structural carbohydrates along a tree height gradient in a tall conifer

(2011) DAVID R. WOODRUFF et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

(2011) U. Buntgen et al.   SCIENCE

A method for calculating the variance and confidence intervals for tree biomass estimates obtained from allometric equations

(2011) Alecia Nickless et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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

Dendroclimatic studies on conifers from central Europe and Great Britain

(2010) FRITZ H. SCHWEINGRUBER et al.   BOREAS

An efficient forward model of the climate controls on interannual variation in tree-ring width

(2010) Susan E. Tolwinski-Ward et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Modelling forest management within a global vegetation model—Part 2: Model validation from a tree to a continental scale

(2010) V. Bellassen et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Fire-climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE

(2010) Valerie Trouet et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence

(2010) Giovanna Battipaglia et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Tree ring evidence for limited direct CO2fertilization of forests over the 20th century

(2010) Ze'ev Gedalof 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

Ips typographus population development after a severe storm in a nature reserve in southern Sweden

(2010) A. Komonen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

(2010) David C. Frank et al.   NATURE

Recent acceleration of biomass burning and carbon losses in Alaskan forests and peatlands

(2010) Merritt R. Turetsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Update on CO2 emissions

(2010) P. Friedlingstein et al.   Nature Geoscience

Estimating parameters of a forest ecosystem C model with measurements of stocks and fluxes as joint constraints

(2010) Andrew D. Richardson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Climatic warming disrupts recurrent Alpine insect outbreaks

(2010) D. M. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CO2 enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability

(2010) R. J. Norby et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth

(2010) Sean M. McMahon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

Comment on “Late 20th century growth acceleration in Greek firs (Abies cephalonica) from Cephalonica Island, Greece: A CO2 fertilization effect?”

(2009) David Frank et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Forest carbon sequestration changes in response to timber harvest

(2009) Sarah C. Davis et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy

(2009) Timothy J Fahey et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

(2009) P.D. Jones et al.   HOLOCENE

Implications of changing climate for global wildland fire

(2009) Mike D. Flannigan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Forest disturbance and recovery: A general review in the context of spaceborne remote sensing of impacts on aboveground biomass and canopy structure

(2009) S. Frolking et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

Impacts of tropical cyclones on U.S. forest tree mortality and carbon flux from 1851 to 2000

(2009) H. Zeng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Landsat TM/ETM+ and tree-ring based assessment of spatiotemporal patterns of the autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata) in northernmost Fennoscandia

(2009) Flurin Babst et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

(2009) Valérie Trouet et al.   SCIENCE

Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps

(2009) L. Moser et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Influence of spring phenology on seasonal and annual carbon balance in two contrasting New England forests

(2009) A. D. Richardson et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Ten years of fluxes and stand growth in a young beech forest at Hesse, North-eastern France

(2008) André Granier et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Storms can cause Europe-wide reduction in forest carbon sink

(2008) ANDERS LINDROTH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation

(2008) J. G. Canadell et al.   SCIENCE

CLIMATE CHANGE: Ecosystem Disturbance, Carbon, and Climate

(2008) S. W. Running   SCIENCE

Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests

(2008) G. B. Bonan   SCIENCE

Tree-ring variation, wood formation and phenology of beech (Fagus sylvatica) from a representative site in Slovenia, SE Central Europe

(2008) Katarina Čufar et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Using a retrospective dynamic competition index to reconstruct forest succession

(2007) Pascale Weber et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT