Early growing-season precipitation drives radial growth of alpine juniper shrubs in the central Himalayas

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Climate response of Salix oritrepha growth along a latitudinal gradient on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

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Strong link between large tropical volcanic eruptions and severe droughts prior to monsoon in the central Himalayas revealed by tree-ring records

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Site- and species-specific climatic responses of two co-occurring shrubs in the temperate Alxa Desert Plateau, northwest China

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Winter precipitation - not summer temperature - is still the main driver for Alpine shrub growth

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Moisture-driven xylogenesis in Pinus ponderosa from a Mojave Desert mountain reveals high phenological plasticity

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Moisture-Limited Tree Growth for a Subtropical Himalayan Conifer Forest in Western Nepal

(2018) Shalik Sigdel et al.   Forests

Growth delay by winter precipitation could hinder Juniperus sabina persistence under increasing summer drought

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Moisture-mediated responsiveness of treeline shifts to global warming in the Himalayas

(2018) Shalik Ram Sigdel et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The 600-mm precipitation isoline distinguishes tree-ring width responses to climate in China

(2018) Yu Liu et al.   National Science Review

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

(2018) Xiaoming Lu et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought (scPDSI) reconstruction of trans-Himalayan region of central Himalaya using Pinus wallichiana tree-rings

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Sancho, the oldest known Iberian shrub

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Tree rings reveal recent intensified spring drought in the central Himalaya, Nepal

(2017) Shankar Panthi et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Diverging shrub and tree growth from the Polar to the Mediterranean biomes across the European continent

(2017) Elena Pellizzari et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

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TREE-RING FEATURES: INDICATORS OF EXTREME EVENT IMPACTS

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Dendroclimatic response of Abies spectabilis at treeline ecotone of Barun Valley, eastern Nepal Himalaya

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How do climate and topography influence the greening of the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Québec? A dendrochronological analysis ofBetula glandulosa

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Tree-ring carbon and oxygen isotopes indicate different water use strategies in three Mediterranean shrubs at Capo Caccia (Sardinia, Italy)

(2015) Simona Altieri et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Elevation-dependent warming in mountain regions of the world

(2015)   Nature Climate Change

Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome

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Spring temperatures in the far-western Nepal Himalaya since AD 1640 reconstructed from Picea smithiana tree-ring widths

(2014) Udya Kuwar Thapa et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Is the growth of birch at the upper timberline in the Himalayas limited by moisture or by temperature?

(2014) Eryuan Liang et al.   ECOLOGY

A 3,500-year tree-ring record of annual precipitation on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) B. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The alpine dwarf shrub Cassiope fastigiata in the Himalayas: does it reflect site-specific climatic signals in its annual growth rings?

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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

21st century climate change in the European Alps—A review

(2013) Andreas Gobiet et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Contrasting seasonal overlaps between primary and secondary growth are linked to wood anatomy in Mediterranean sub-shrubs

(2012) J. J. Camarero et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

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

(2012) Antonio Gazol et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Annual increments of juniper dwarf shrubs above the tree line on the central Tibetan Plateau: a useful climatic proxy

(2011) Eryuan Liang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time

(2011) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

(2010) Martin Hallinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Dendrochronological potential of the alpine shrub Rhododendron nivale on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Eryuan Liang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Annual growth ofCassiope tetragonaas a proxy for Arctic climate: developing correlative and experimental transfer functions to reconstruct past summer temperature on a millennial time scale

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