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Head:PD Dr. Georg von Arx
We use tree rings to investigate environmental impacts on tree growth and reconstruct past environmental changes. Our aim is to understand the underlying tree-physiological processes, particularly in relation to the water and carbon cycles. The spatio-temporal scale ranges from minutes to millennia and from cells to ecosystems around the globe. Our toolbox includes time series analysis of ring width, x-ray density, stable isotopes and wood cell anatomy. We aim to advance these tools through development of hardware, software and statistical methods.
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Matulewski, P.; Buchwal, A.; Gärtner, H.; Jagodziński, A.M.; Čufar, K., 2022: Altered growth with blue rings: comparison of radial growth and wood anatomy between trampled and non-trampled Scots pine roots. Dendrochronologia, 72: 125922 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125922
Dorado-Liñán, I.; Ayarzagüena, B.; Babst, F.; Xu, G.; Gil, L.; Battipaglia, G.; Buras, A.; Čada, V.; Camarero, J.J.; Cavin, L.; Martínez-Sancho, E.; Trotsiuk, V.; Trouet, V., 2022: Jet stream position explains regional anomalies in European beech forest productivity and tree growth. Nature Communications, 13: 2015 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-29615-8
Cherubini, P.; Carlson, B.; Talirz, W.; Wiener, M.H., 2022: Musical string instruments: potential and limitations of tree-ring dating and provenancing to verify their authenticity. Dendrochronologia, 72: 125942 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125942
Miller, T.W.; Stangler, D.F.; Larysch, E.; Honer, H.; Seifert, T.; Puhlmann, H.; Von Arx, G.; Fonti, P.; Fonti, M.V.; Rathgeber, C.B.K.; Kahle, H., 2022: Longer and faster: intra-annual growth dynamics of Douglas fir outperform Norway spruce and silver fir over wide climatic gradients. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 321: 108970 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108970
Bose, A.K.; Rigling, A.; Gessler, A.; Hagedorn, F.; Brunner, I.; Feichtinger, L.; Bigler, C.; Egli, S.; Etzold, S.; Gossner, M.M.; Guidi, C.; Lévesque, M.; Meusburger, K.; Peter, M.; Saurer, M.; Scherrer, D.; Schleppi, P.; Schönbeck, L.; Vogel, M.E.; ... Schaub, M., 2022: Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: impacts on traits and functioning. Ecological Monographs, 92, 2: e1507 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecm.1507
Hartl, C.; Schneider, L.; Riechelmann, D.F.C.; Kuhl, E.; Kochbeck, M.; Klippel, L.; Büntgen, U.; Esper, J., 2022: The temperature sensitivity along elevational gradients is more stable in maximum latewood density than tree-ring width. Dendrochronologia, 73: 125958 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125958
Murazzi, M.E.; Cherubini, P.; Brunner, I.; Kägi, R.; Saurer, M.; Ballikaya, P.; Hagedorn, F.; Al Sid Cheikh, M.; Onandia, G.; Gessler, A., 2022: Can forest trees take up and transport nanoplastics?. iForest, 15, 2: 128-132. doi: 10.3832/ifor4021-015
Miranda, J.C.; Calderaro, C.; Cocozza, C.; Lasserre, B.; Tognetti, R.; Von Arx, G., 2022: Wood anatomical responses of European beech to elevation, land use change, and climate variability in the Central Apennines, Italy. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13: 855741 (15 pp.). doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.855741
Büntgen, U., 2022: Scrutinizing tree-ring parameters for Holocene climate reconstructions. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, doi: 10.1002/wcc.778
Roibu, C.; Nagavciuc, V.; Ionita, M.; Popa, I.; Horodnic, S.; Mursa, A.; Büntgen, U., 2022: A tree ring-based hydroclimate reconstruction for eastern Europe reveals large-scale teleconnection patterns. Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-022-06255-8
Fonti, P.; Rellstab, C.; Martínez-Sancho, E., 2022: Deciphering 'time to hydraulic failure' to select drought-resistant tree provenances. Tree Physiology, 42, 4: 704-707. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpac010
Evans, M.E.K.; Justin Derose, R.; Klesse, S.; Girardin, M.P.; Heilman, K.A.; Ross Alexander, M.; Arsenault, A.; Babst, F.; Bouchard, M.; Cahoon, S.M.P.; Campbell, E.M.; Dietze, M.; Duchesne, L.; Frank, D.C.; Giebink, C.L.; Gómez-Guerrero, A.; Gutiérrez García, G.; Hogg, E.H.; Metsaranta, J.; ... 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. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biab119
Martinez del Castillo, E.; Zang, C.S.; Buras, A.; Hacket-Pain, A.; Esper, J.; Serrano-Notivoli, R.; Hartl, C.; Weigel, R.; Klesse, S.; Resco de Dios, V.; Scharnweber, T.; Dorado-Liñán, I.; Van der Maaten-Theunissen, M.; Van der Maaten, E.; Jump, A.; Mikac, S.; Banzragch, B.E.; Beck, W.; Cavin, L.; ... De Luis, M., 2022: Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests. Communications Biology, 5: 163 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s42003-022-03107-3
Lu, X.; Liang, E.; Babst, F.; Camarero, J.J.; Büntgen, U., 2022: Warming-induced tipping points of Arctic and alpine shrub recruitment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, 119, 9: e2118120119 (3 pp.). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2118120119
Larysch, E.; Stangler, D.F.; Puhlmann, H.; Rathgeber, C.B.K.; Seifert, T.; Kahle, H.-P., 2022: The 2018 hot drought pushed conifer wood formation to the limit of its plasticity: consequences for woody biomass production and tree ring structure. Plant Biology, doi: 10.1111/plb.13399
Brehm, N.; Christl, M.; Knowles, T.D.J.; Casanova, E.; Evershed, R.P.; Adolphi, F.; Muscheler, R.; Synal, H.; Mekhaldi, F.; Paleari, C.I.; Leuschner, H.; Bayliss, A.; Nicolussi, K.; Pichler, T.; Schlüchter, C.; Pearson, C.L.; Salzer, M.W.; Fonti, P.; Nievergelt, D.; ... Wacker, L., 2022: Tree-rings reveal two strong solar proton events in 7176 and 5259 BCE. Nature Communications, 13: 1196 (8 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-28804-9
Edwards, J.; Anchukaitis, K.J.; Gunnarson, B.E.; Pearson, C.; Seftigen, K.; Von Arx, G.; Linderholm, H.W., 2022: The origin of tree‐ring reconstructed summer cooling in Northern Europe during the 18th century eruption of Laki. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, 2: e2021PA004386 (19 pp.). doi: 10.1029/2021PA004386
Ljungqvist, F.C.; Seim, A.; Tegel, W.; Krusic, P.J.; Baittinger, C.; Belingard, C.; Bernabei, M.; Bonde, N.; Borghaerts, P.; Couturier, Y.; Ginzler, C.; Büntgen, U., 2022: Regional patterns of late medieval and early modern European building activity revealed by felling dates. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9: 825751 (20 pp.). doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.825751
Lourenço, J.; Enquist, B.J.; Von Arx, G.; Sonsin-Oliveira, J.; Morino, K.; Thomaz, L.D.; Milanez, C.R.D., 2022: Hydraulic tradeoffs underlie local variation in tropical forest functional diversity and sensitivity to drought. New Phytologist, 234, 1: 50-63. doi: 10.1111/nph.17944
Heilman, K.A.; Dietze, M.C.; Arizpe, A.A.; Aragon, J.; Gray, A.; Shaw, J.D.; Finley, A.O.; Klesse, S.; DeRose, R.J.; 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. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16038
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