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Patrick Fonti
Organisational unit: Landscape Dynamics
Dendroecology
Phone: +41 44 7392 285
Fax: +41 44 7392 215
Room: Bi HL C 30
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Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

ResearcherID B-7400-2011
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Education 

  • 1997: Degree in Forestry. ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2002: Dr. Phil. Nat. (PhD). ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Research Interests 

  • Dendrochronology in general
  • Dendroecology, tree response to changing environment, tree competition dynamic and forest succession
  • Wood anatomy, wood formation
  • Plant hydraulic, water transport in xylem
  • Ecophysiology, environmental signal in tree rings

Current research projects 

  • Exploration of environmental signal in earlywood vessel anatomical features of hardwood trees (Castanea sativa, Quercus sp., Fagus sylvatica, Prunus Avium)
  • Exploration of environmental signal in tracheid anatomical features of coniferous trees
  • Monitoring intra-annual growth of Spruce and Larch along an elevation transect in Loetschental

Selected publications

  1. Bryukhanova, M., Fonti, P. (2013). Xylem plasticity allows rapid hydraulic adjustment to annual climatic variability. Trees DOI 10.1007/s00468-012-0802-8 (pdf)
  2. King, G., Fonti, P., Nievergelt, D., Büntgen, U., Frank, D. (2013). Climatic drivers of hourly to yearly tree radius variations along a 6°C natural warming gradient. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 168, 36– 46 (pdf)
  3. Fonti, P., Heller, O., Cherubini, P., Rigling, A., Arend, M. (2013). Wood anatomical responses of oak saplings exposed to air warming and soil drought. Plant Biology 15, 210-219 (pdf)
  4. Fonti, P., Jansen, S. (2012) Xylem plasticity in response to climate. New Phytologist 195, 734–736 (pdf)
  5. Arbellay, E., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Fonti, P., Decaulne, A. (2012). Defining an adequate sample of earlywood vessels for retrospective injury detection in Diffuse-porous species. Plos One 7:e38824. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038824 (pdf)
  6. Gea-Izquierdo, G., Fonti, P., Cherubini, P., Martín-Benito, D., Chaar, H., Cañellas, I. (2012). Xylem hydraulic adjustment and growth response of Quercus canariensis to climatic variability. Tree Physiology 32, 401-413 (pdf)
  7. Seim, A., Büntgen, U., Fonti, P., Haska, H., Herzig, F., Tegel, W., Trouet, V., Treydte, K. (2012). Growth variability and climate sensitivity of a millennium-long pine chronology from Albania. Climate research, 51, 217-228 (pdf)
  8. Arbellay, E., Fonti, P., Stoffel, M. (2012). Duration and extension of anatomical changes in wood structure after cambial injury. Journal of Experimental Botany, 63: 3271-3277 (pdf)
  9. Gričar, J., Rathgeber, CBK., Fonti, P. (2011). Monitoring seasonal dynamics of wood formation. Dendrochronologia 29, 123-125. (pdf)
  10. DeSoto, L., De la Cruz, M., Fonti, P. (2011). Intra-annual pattern of tracheid size in the Mediterranean Juniperus thurifera as indicator of seasonal water stress. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41, 1280-1294. (pdf)
  11. Galle, A., Esper, J., Feller, U., Ribas-Carbo, M., Fonti, P. (2010). Responses of wood anatomy and carbon isotope composition of Quercus pubescens saplings subjected to two consecutive years of summer drought. Annals of Forest Sciences 67, 809. (pdf)
  12. Moser, L., Fonti, P., Büntgen, U., Franzen, J., Esper, J., Luterbacher, J., Frank, D. (2010). Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps. Tree Physiology, 30, 225-233. (pdf)
  13. Fonti, P., von Arx, G., García-González, I., Eilmann, B., Sass-Klaassen, U., Gärtner, H., Eckstein, D. (2010). Studying global change through investigation of the plastic responses of xylem anatomy in tree rings. New Phytologist, 185, 42-53. (pdf)
  14. Eilmann, B., Zweifel, R., Buchmann, N., Fonti, P., Rigling, A. (2009). Drought-induced adaptation of the xylem in Pinus sylvestris and Quercus pubescens. Tree Physiology 29, 1011-1020. (pdf)
  15. Fonti, P., Treydte, K., Osenstetter, S., Frank, DC., Esper, J. (2009). Frequency-dependent signals in multi-centennial oak vessel data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 275, 92-99. (pdf)
  16. Fonti, P., Eilmann, B., García-González, I., von Arx, G. (2009). Expeditious building of ring-porous earlywood vessel chronologies without loosing signal information. Trees 23, 665-671. (pdf)
  17. Fonti, P., García-González, I. (2008). Earlywood vessel size of oak as a potential proxy for spring precipitation in mesic sites. Journal of Biogeography 35, 2249-2257. (pdf)
  18. García-González, I., Fonti, P. (2008). Ensuring a representative sample of earlywood vessels for dendroecological studies: an example from two ring-porous species. Trees 22, 237-244. (pdf)
  19. Weber, P., Bugmann, H., Fonti, P., Rigling, A. (2008). Using a retrospective dynamic competition index to reconstruct forest succession. Forest Ecology and Management 54: 96-106. (pdf)
  20. Fonti, P., Solomonoff, N.; García-González, I. (2007). Earlywood vessels size of Castanea sativa records temperature before their formation. New Phytologist 173: 562-570. (pdf)
  21. Vogt, J.; Fonti, P.; Conedera, M.; Schröder, B. (2006). Temporal and spatial dynamic of stool uprooting in abandoned chestnut coppice forests. Forest Ecology and Management 235(1-3): 88-95. (pdf)
  22. García-González, I., Fonti, P. (2006). Selecting earlywood vessels to maximize their environmental signal. Tree Physiology 26(9): 1289-1296. (pdf)
  23. Fonti, P., Cherubini, P., Rigling, A., Weber, P., Biging, G. (2006). Tree rings show competition dynamics in abandoned Castanea sativa coppices after land-use changes. Journal of Vegetation Science 17(1): 103-112. (pdf)
  24. Fonti, P., García-González, I. (2004). Suitability of chestnut earlywood vessel chronologies for ecological studies. New Phytologist 163(1): 67-86. (pdf)
  25. Fonti, P., Macchioni, N. (2003). Ring shake in chestnut: Anatomical description, extent and frequency of failures. Annals of forest sciences. 60(5): 403-408 . (pdf)
  26. Fonti, P., Sell, J. (2003). Radial split resistance of chestnut earlywood and its relation to the ring width. Wood and Fiber science, 35(2): 201-208. (pdf)
  27. Fonti, P., Bräker O-U., Giudici, F. (2002): Relationship between ring shake incidence and earlywood vessel characteristics in chestnut wood. IAWA, 23(3): 287-298. (pdf)
  28. Fonti, P., Frey, B. (2002). Is the ray volume a possible factor influencing ring shake occurrence in chestnut wood? Trees – Structure and function, 16(8): 519-522. (pdf)
  29. Fonti, P., Macchioni, N., and Thibaut, B. (2002). Ring shake in chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.): state of the art. Annals of forest sciences, 59(2): 129-140. (pdf)

Supervision of master work

  • 2012: Cristian Gees, D-UWIS, ETH Zürich. Growth response of Larix decidua to a nine year CO2-enrichment experiment at Stillberg
  • 2010: Lorenzo Schmid, D-UWIS, ETH Zürich. Characterization of beech vessels from two ecologically different sites. 
  • 2009: Torben Luebbe, Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany. Temporal and spatial reconstruction of the competitive power of chestnut coppice forests in Ticino.
  • 2008: Lea Moser, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland. Intra-annual tree growth along an altitudinal gradient in the Loetschental, Switzerland.
  • 2008: Elodie Blanchard, Universite de Bordeaux 1. Effect of river discharge on early wood vessel area of oak (Quercus robur L.).
  • 2008: Andreas Obrecht, Geographysches Istitute Universität Bern. Wood anatomy and phenology: Vessel formation of beech oak and cherry trees in relation to phenological observation.
  • 2006: Corinna Beffa, Environmental Science Department, ETH Zürich. Successional patterns and population development in fragmented Cistus salviifolius stands on southern slopes of the Swiss Alps
  • 2006: Sarah  Brugger, Geopraphischen Institut, Universität Zürich. Effekte eines Waldbrandes: dendrochronologische Analyse nach einem experimentelle Brand auf der Alpensuedseite.
  • 2006: Juliane Vogt, Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Germany. Temporal and spatial dynamic of stool uprooting in abandoned chestnut coppice forests.

Guided internships

  • 2010: Marcia Eugenio Gozalbo, University of Valladolid, Spain.
  • 2009: Lucia de Soto Suarez, University of Valladolid, Spain.
  • 2008: Danielle Fuchs, University of Berkeley, California, USA.
  • 2006: Natalie Solomonoff van Doorn, University of Berkeley, California, USA.
  
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