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

Short photoperiod reduces the temperature sensitivity of leaf‐out in saplings of Fagus sylvatica but not in horse chestnut

(2019) Yongshuo H. Fu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Rethinking false spring risk

(2019) Catherine J. Chamberlain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increase in the risk of exposure of forest and fruit trees to spring frosts at higher elevations in Switzerland over the last four decades

(2018) Yann Vitasse et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Unprecedented risk of spring frost damage in Switzerland and Germany in 2017

(2018) Yann Vitasse et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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

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

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

Detecting early warning signals of tree mortality in boreal North America using multiscale satellite data

(2018) Brendan M. Rogers et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

(2018) Antonio Gazol et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Predicting Chronic Climate-Driven Disturbances and Their Mitigation

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

Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience

(2018) Johannes Ingrisch et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate-induced shifts in leaf unfolding and frost risk of European trees and shrubs

(2018) Christof Bigler et al.   Scientific Reports

Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species

(2018) Andrew J. Hacket-Pain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pervasive effects of drought on tree growth across a wide climatic gradient in the temperate forests of the Caucasus

(2018) Dario Martin-Benito et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Increased autumn productivity permits temperate trees to compensate for spring frost damage

(2018) Constantin M. Zohner et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Species-specific differences in water uptake depth of mature temperate trees vary with water availability in the soil

(2018) Nadine Brinkmann et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Divergent trends in the risk of spring frost damage to trees in Europe with recent warming

(2018) Qianqian Ma et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High carbon storage in carbon‐limited trees

(2018) Raphael Weber et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Contribution of climate vs. larch budmoth outbreaks in regulating biomass accumulation in high-elevation forests

(2017) Richard L. Peters et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

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

Vapor-pressure deficit and extreme climatic variables limit tree growth

(2017) Paula Sanginés de Cárcer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Frost hardening and dehardening potential in temperate trees from winter to budburst

(2017) Amarante Vitra et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global analysis of plant recovery performance from water stress

(2017) Jingjing Yin et al.   OIKOS

Global warming leads to more uniform spring phenology across elevations

(2017) Yann Vitasse et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Xylem and Leaf Functional Adjustments to Drought in Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pyrenaica at Their Elevational Boundary

(2017) Laura Fernández-de-Uña et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Convergence of leaf-out towards minimum risk of freezing damage in temperate trees

(2016) Armando Lenz et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Impacts of droughts on the growth resilience of Northern Hemisphere forests

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

Where, why and how? Explaining the low-temperature range limits of temperate tree species

(2016) Christian Körner et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How climate change affects extreme weather events

(2016) P. Stott   SCIENCE

Low resistance but high resilience in growth of a major deciduous forest tree (Fagus sylvatica L.) in response to late spring frost in southern Germany

(2016) Adriana Príncipe et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Paradigm shift in plant growth control

(2015) Christian Körner   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Cold temperature extremes during spring do not limit the range shift of Mediterranean pines into regions with intermittent frost

(2015) Christoph Bachofen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Increased heat requirement for leaf flushing in temperate woody species over 1980-2012: effects of chilling, precipitation and insolation

(2015) Yongshuo H. Fu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

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

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

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

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

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

(2014) Neil Pederson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

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

Resilience indicators: prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts

(2014) V. Dakos et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The interaction between freezing tolerance and phenology in temperate deciduous trees

(2014) Yann Vitasse et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

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

European deciduous trees exhibit similar safety margins against damage by spring freeze events along elevational gradients

(2013) Armando Lenz et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Not all droughts are created equal: translating meteorological drought into woody plant mortality

(2013) L. D. L. Anderegg et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Drought sensitivity of Norway spruce is higher than that of silver fir along an altitudinal gradient in southwestern Germany

(2012) Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Factors driving growth responses to drought in Mediterranean forests

(2012) Edmond Pasho et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Ecological impacts of a widespread frost event following early spring leaf-out

(2012) Koen Hufkens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

(2012) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Comparing the intra-annual wood formation of three European species (Fagus sylvatica, Quercus petraea and Pinus sylvestris) as related to leaf phenology and non-structural carbohydrate dynamics

(2012) A. Michelot et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Crop management and phenology trends in the U.S. Corn Belt: Impacts on yields, evapotranspiration and energy balance

(2011) William J. Sacks et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Growth patterns and sensitivity to climate predict silver fir decline in the Spanish Pyrenees

(2011) Juan Carlos Linares et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

(2011) Melinda D. Smith   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

Frost damage and its cascading negative effects on Aesculus glabra

(2011) Carol K. Augspurger   PLANT ECOLOGY

Tree responses to drought

(2011) M. G. Ryan   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

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

REPRODUCTIVE PATTERNS SHAPE INTROGRESSION DYNAMICS AND SPECIES SUCCESSION WITHIN THE EUROPEAN WHITE OAK SPECIES COMPLEX

(2010) Olivier Lepais et al.   EVOLUTION

Future changes in Central Europe heat waves expected to mostly follow summer mean warming

(2009) Joan Ballester et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Climate change impacts, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability of European forest ecosystems

(2009) Marcus Lindner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spring 2007 warmth and frost: phenology, damage and refoliation in a temperate deciduous forest

(2009) Carol K. Augspurger   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Drought effects on allocation of recent carbon: from beech leaves to soil CO2 efflux

(2009) Nadine K. Ruehr et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The 2007 Eastern US Spring Freeze: Increased Cold Damage in a Warming World?

(2008) Lianhong Gu et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A dendrochronology program library in R (dplR)

(2008) Andrew G. Bunn   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

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