Dr. Flurin Babst

Trotsiuk, V.; Hartig, F.; Cailleret, M.; Babst, F.; Forrester, D.I.; Baltensweiler, A.; Buchmann, N.; Bugmann, H.; Gessler, A.; Gharun, M.; Minunno, F.; Rigling, A.; Rohner, B.; Stillhard, J.; Thürig, E.; Waldner, P.; Ferretti, M.; Eugster, W.; Schaub, M., 2020: Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model-data fusion. Global Change Biology, 26, 4: 2463-2476. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15011

Hudson, A.R.; Alfaro-Sanchez, R.; Babst, F.; Belmecheri, S.; Moore, D.J.P.; Trouet, V., 2019: Seasonal and synoptic climatic drivers of tree growth in the Bighorn Mountains, WY, USA (1654–1983 CE). Dendrochronologia, 58: 125633 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125633

Babst, F.; Bouriaud, O.; Poulter, B.; Trouet, V.; Girardin, M.P.; Frank, D.C., 2019: Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth. Science Advances, 5, 1: eaat4313 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4313

Lu, X.; Liang, E.; Wang, Y.; Babst, F.; Leavitt, S.W.; Julio Camarero, J., 2019: Past the climate optimum: recruitment is declining at the world's highest juniper shrublines on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology, 100, 2: e02557 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecy.2557

Klesse, S.; Babst, F.; Lienert, S.; Spahni, R.; Joos, F.; Bouriaud, O.; Carrer, M.; Di Filippo, A.; Poulter, B.; Trotsiuk, V.; Wilson, R.; Frank, D.C., 2018: A combined tree ring and vegetation model assessment of European forest growth sensitivity to interannual climate variability. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32, 8: 1226-1240. doi: 10.1029/2017GB005856

Wu, X.; Li, X.; Liu, H.; Ciais, P.; Li, Y.; Xu, C.; Babst, F.; Guo, W.; Hao, B.; Wang, P.; Huang, Y.; Liu, S.; Tian, Y.; He, B.; Zhang, C., 2018: Uneven winter snow influence on tree growth across temperate China. Global Change Biology, 25: 144-154. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14464

Babst, F.; Bodesheim, P.; Charney, N.; Friend, A.D.; Girardin, M.P.; Klesse, S.; Moore, D.J.P.; Seftigen, K.; Björklund, J.; Bouriaud, O.; Dawson, A.; DeRose, R.J.; Dietze, M.C.; Eckes, A.H.; Enquist, B.; Frank, D.C.; Mahecha, M.D.; Poulter, B.; Record, S.; ... Evans, M.E.K., 2018: When tree rings go global: challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight. Quaternary Science Reviews, 197: 1-20. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.009

Marchand, W.; Girardin, M.P.; Gauthier, S.; Hartmann, H.; Bouriaud, O.; Babst, F.; Bergeron, Y., 2018: Untangling methodological and scale considerations in growth and productivity trend estimates of Canada’s forests. Environmental Research Letters, 13, 9: 093001 (23 pp.). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aad82a

Wu, X.; Liu, H.; Li, X.; Ciais, P.; Babst, F.; Guo, W.; Zhang, C.; Magliulo, V.; Pavelka, M.; Liu, S.; Huang, Y.; Wang, P.; Shi, C.; Ma, Y., 2018: Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology, 24, 1: 504-516. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13920

Trouet, V.; Babst, F.; Meko, M., 2018: Recent enhanced high-summer North Atlantic Jet variability emerges from three-century context. Nature Communications, 9, 1: 180 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02699-3

Zhang, Z.; Babst, F.; Bellassen, V.; Frank, D.; Launois, T.; Tan, K.; Ciais, P.; Poulter, B., 2018: Converging climate sensitivities of European forests between observed radial tree growth and vegetation models. Ecosystems, 21: 410-425. doi: 10.1007/s10021-017-0157-5

Montané, F.; Fox, A.M.; Arellano, A.F.; MacBean, N.; Ross Alexander, M.; Dye, A.; Bishop, D.A.; Trouet, V.; Babst, F.; Hessl, A.E.; Pederson, N.; Blanken, P.D.; Bohrer, G.; Gough, C.M.; Litvak, M.E.; Novick, K.A.; Phillips, R.P.; Wood, J.D.; Moore, D.J.P., 2017: Evaluating the effect of alternative carbon allocation schemes in a land surface model (CLM4.5) on carbon fluxes, pools, and turnover in temperate forests. Geoscientific Model Development, 10, 9: 3499-3517. doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-3499-2017

Evans, M.E.K.; Falk, D.A.; Arizpe, A.; Swetnam, T.L.; Babst, F.; Holsinger, K.E., 2017: Fusing tree-ring and forest inventory data to infer influences on tree growth. Ecosphere, 8, 7: e01889 (20 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1889

Pappas, C.; Mahecha, M.D.; Frank, D.C.; Babst, F.; Koutsoyiannis, D., 2017: Ecosystem functioning is enveloped by hydrometeorological variability. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 9: 1263-1270. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0277-5

Alexander, M.R.; Rollinson, C.R.; Babst, F.; Trouet, V.; Moore, D.J.P., 2017: Relative influences of multiple sources of uncertainty on cumulative and incremental tree-ring-derived aboveground biomass estimates. Trees: Structure and Function, 32, 1: 265-276. doi: 10.1007/s00468-017-1629-0

Babst, F.; Poulter, B.; Bodesheim, P.; Mahecha, M.D.; Frank, D.C., 2017: Improved tree-ring archives will support earth-system science. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 2: 0008 (2 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41559-016-0008

Belmecheri, S.; Babst, F.; Hudson, A.R.; Betancourt, J.; Trouet, V., 2017: Northern Hemisphere jet stream position indices as diagnostic tools for climate and ecosystem dynamics. Earth Interactions, 21, 8: 1-23. doi: 10.1175/EI-D-16-0023.1

Szejner, P.; Wright, W.E.; Babst, F.; Belmecheri, S.; Trouet, V.; Leavitt, S.W.; Ehleringer, J.R.; Monson, R.K., 2016: Latitudinal gradients in tree ring stable carbon and oxygen isotopes reveal differential climate influences of the North American Monsoon System. Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences, 121, 7: 1978-1991. doi: 10.1002/2016JG003460

Charney, N.D.; Babst, F.; Poulter, B.; Record, S.; Trouet, V.M.; Frank, D.; Enquist, B.J.; Evans, M.E.K., 2016: Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth. Ecology Letters, 19, 9: 1119-1128. doi: 10.1111/ele.12650

Babst, F.; Wright, W.E.; Szejner, P.; Wells, L.; Belmecheri, S.; Monson, R.K., 2016: Blue intensity parameters derived from Ponderosa pine tree rings characterize intra-annual density fluctuations and reveal seasonally divergent water limitations. Trees: Structure and Function, 30, 4: 1403-1415. doi: 10.1007/s00468-016-1377-6

Frank, D.; Reichstein, M.; Bahn, M.; Thonicke, K.; Frank, D.; Mahecha, M.D.; Smith, P.; Van der Velde, M.; Vicca, S.; Babst, F.; Beer, C.; Buchmann, N.; Canadell, J.G.; Ciais, P.; Cramer, W.; Ibrom, A.; Miglietta, F.; Poulter, B.; Rammig, A.; ... Zscheischler, J., 2015: Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts. Global Change Biology, 21, 8: 2861-2880. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12916

Nehrbass-Ahles, C.; Babst, F.; Klesse, S.; Nötzli, M.; Bouriaud, O.; Neukom, R.; Dobbertin, M.; Frank, D., 2014: The influence of sampling design on tree-ring-based quantification of forest growth. Global Change Biology, 20, 9: 2867-2885. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12599

Babst, F.; Bouriaud, O.; Alexander, R.; Trouet, V.; Frank, D., 2014: Toward consistent measurements of carbon accumulation: a multi-site assessment of biomass and basal area increment across Europe. Dendrochronologia, 32, 2: 153-161. doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2014.01.002

Babst, F.; Bouriaud, O.; Papale, D.; Gielen, B.; Janssens, I.A.; Nikinmaa, E.; Ibrom, A.; Wu, J.; Bernhofer, C.; Köstner, B.; Grünwald, T.; Seufert, G.; Ciais, P.; Frank, D., 2014: Above-ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy-covariance sites. New Phytologist, 201, 4: 1289-1303. doi: 10.1111/nph.12589

Wu, X.; Babst, F.; Ciais, P.; Frank, D.; Reichstein, M.; Wattenbach, M.; Zang, C.; Mahecha, M.D., 2014: Climate-mediated spatiotemporal variability in terrestrial productivity across Europe. Biogeosciences, 11, 11: 3057-3068. doi: 10.5194/bg-11-3057-2014

Babst, F.; Poulter, B.; Trouet, V.; Tan, K.; Neuwirth, B.; Wilson, R.; Carrer, M.; Grabner, M.; Tegel, W.; Levanic, T.; Panayotov, M.; Urbinati, C.; Bouriaud, O.; Ciais, P.; Frank, D., 2013: Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22, 6: 706-717. doi: 10.1111/geb.12023

Wilmking, M.; Hallinger, M.; Van Bogaert, R.; Kyncl, T.; Babst, F.; Hahne, W.; Juday, G.P.; De Luis, M.; Novak, K.; Völlm, C., 2012: Continuously missing outer rings in woody plants at their distributional margins. Dendrochronologia, 30, 3: 213-222. doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2011.10.001

Babst, F.; Carrer, M.; Poulter, B.; Urbinati, C.; Neuwirth, B.; Frank, D., 2012: 500 years of regional forest growth variability and links to climatic extreme events in Europe. Environmental Research Letters, 7, 4: 045705 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/045705

Babst, F.; Esper, J.; Parlow, E., 2010: Landsat TM/ETM+ and tree-ring based assessment of spatiotemporal patterns of the autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata) in northernmost Fennoscandia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114, 3: 637-646. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.11.005