| Slower growth prior to the 2018 drought and a high growth sensitivity to previous year summer conditions predisposed European beech to crown dieback
Neycken, A., Wohlgemuth, T., Frei, E. R., Klesse, S., Baltensweiler, A., & Lévesque, M. (2024). Slower growth prior to the 2018 drought and a high growth sensitivity to previous year summer conditions predisposed European beech to crown dieback. Science of the Total Environment, 912, 169068 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169068 |
| No evidence that coring affects tree growth or mortality in three common European temperate forest tree species
Portier, J., Shackleton, R. T., Klesse, S., Ferretti, M., Flury, R., Hobi, M. L., … Thürig, E. (2024). No evidence that coring affects tree growth or mortality in three common European temperate forest tree species. European Journal of Forest Research, 143, 129-139. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-023-01612-6 |
| Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years
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| Finding balance: tree‐ring isotopes differentiate between acclimation and stress‐induced imbalance in a long‐term irrigation experiment
Vitali, V., Schuler, P., Holloway‐Phillips, M., D'Odorico, P., Guidi, C., Klesse, S., … Saurer, M. (2024). Finding balance: tree‐ring isotopes differentiate between acclimation and stress‐induced imbalance in a long‐term irrigation experiment. Global Change Biology, 30(3), e17237 (20 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17237 |
| Legacy effects in radial tree growth are rarely significant after accounting for biological memory
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| Detrending climate data prior to climate-growth analyses in dendroecology: a common best practice?
Ols, C., Klesse, S., Girardin, M. P., Evans, M. E. K., DeRose, R. J., & Trouet, V. (2023). Detrending climate data prior to climate-growth analyses in dendroecology: a common best practice? Dendrochronologia, 79, 126094 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126094 |
| A circumpolar perspective on the contribution of trees to the boreal forest carbon balance
Pappas, C., Babst, F., Fatichi, S., Klesse, S., Paschalis, A., & Peters, R. L. (2023). A circumpolar perspective on the contribution of trees to the boreal forest carbon balance. In M. Montoro Girona, H. Morin, S. Gauthier, & Y. Bergeron (Eds.), Advances in global change research: Vol. 74. Boreal forests in the face of climate change. Sustainable management (pp. 271-294). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6_10 |
| Adding tree rings to North America's national forest inventories: an essential tool to guide drawdown of atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>
Evans, M. E. K., Justin Derose, R., Klesse, S., Girardin, M. P., Heilman, K. A., Ross Alexander, M., … Villela Gaytán, S. A. (2022). Adding tree rings to North America's national forest inventories: an essential tool to guide drawdown of atmospheric CO2. BioScience, 72(3), 233-246. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab119 |
| Ecological forecasting of tree growth: regional fusion of tree‐ring and forest inventory data to quantify drivers and characterize uncertainty
Heilman, K. A., Dietze, M. C., Arizpe, A. A., Aragon, J., Gray, A., Shaw, J. D., … Evans, M. E. K. (2022). Ecological forecasting of tree growth: regional fusion of tree‐ring and forest inventory data to quantify drivers and characterize uncertainty. Global Change Biology, 28(7), 2442-2460. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16038 |
| Long-term soil water limitation and previous tree vigor drive local variability of drought-induced crown dieback in <em>Fagus sylvatica</em>
Klesse, S., Wohlgemuth, T., Meusburger, K., Vitasse, Y., von Arx, G., Lévesque, M., … Frei, E. R. (2022). Long-term soil water limitation and previous tree vigor drive local variability of drought-induced crown dieback in Fagus sylvatica. Science of the Total Environment, 851, 157926 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157926 |
| Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests
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| Xylem porosity, sapwood characteristics, and uncertainties in temperate and boreal forest water use
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| Effect of nitrogen deposition on centennial forest water-use efficiency
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| Critical note on the application of the “two-third” spline
Klesse, S. (2021). Critical note on the application of the “two-third” spline. Dendrochronologia, 65, 125786 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125786 |
| Spread and severity of ash dieback in Switzerland - Tree characteristics and landscape features explain varying mortality probability
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| High-frequency stable isotope signals in uneven-aged forests as proxy for physiological responses to climate in Central Europe
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| Continental-scale tree-ring-based projection of Douglas-fir growth: testing the limits of space-for-time substitution
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| Protection des forêts - vue d'ensemble 2019
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| Situazione fitosanitaria dei boschi 2019
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| Waldschutzüberblick 2019
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