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Open AccessA 300-year tree-ring δ18O-based precipitation reconstruction for the South American Altiplano highlights decadal hydroclimate teleconnections
Tropical South American climate is influenced by the South American Summer Monsoon and the El Niño Southern Oscillation. However, assessing natural hydroclimate variability in the region is hindered by the sca...
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Open AccessRapid decrease of the Labrador Sea’s influence on black spruce ecosystems with distance inland
In eastern Canada, Black spruce (Picea mariana Mill. B.S.P.) grows in a wide variety of climates, from maritime-oceanic conditions near the Labrador Sea, to more continental climates, inland. Along this gradient,...
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Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years
The vapor pressure deficit reflects the difference between how much moisture the atmosphere could and actually does hold, a factor that fundamentally affects evapotranspiration, ecosystem functioning, and vege...
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Open AccessApproaching a thermal tip** point in the Eurasian boreal forest at its southern margin
Climate change is increasing the intensity and frequency of extreme heat events. Ecological responses to extreme heat will depend on vegetation physiology and thermal tolerance. Here we report that Larix sibirica
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Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent outside Antarctica over the past ~2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal disturbances. In this Review, we discuss...
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Correction to: Tree-ring cellulose δ18O records similar large-scale climate influences as precipitation δ18O in the Northwest Territories of Canada
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Tree-ring cellulose δ18O records similar large-scale climate influences as precipitation δ18O in the Northwest Territories of Canada
Stable oxygen isotopes measured in tree rings are useful for reconstructing climate variability and explaining changes in physiological processes occurring in forests, complementing other tree-ring parameters ...
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Climate Signals in Stable Isotope Tree-Ring Records
In this chapter we introduce the in stable isotope tree-ring records, with the emphasis on forests. The development of the subdiscipline is recapped followed by an exploration of isotope dendroclimatic rec...
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Limits and Strengths of Tree-Ring Stable Isotopes
This chapter aims at summarizing strengths and caveats on the of stable carbon and in tree rings as recorders for fingerprints of environmental influences. First, environmental constraints limiting and s...
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Open AccessSummer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome
Arctic warming can influence tundra ecosystem function with consequences for climate feedbacks, wildlife and human communities. Yet ecological change across the Arctic tundra biome remains poorly quantified du...
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Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread greening at high latitudes. This ‘greening of the Arctic’ is among the world’s most important large-scale ecological re...
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Open AccessTree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale
Historical and future trends in net primary productivity (NPP) and its sensitivity to global change are largely unknown because of the lack of long-term, high-resolution data. Here we test whether annually res...
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400 Years of summer hydroclimate from stable isotopes in Iberian trees
Tree rings are natural archives that annually record distinct types of past climate variability depending on the parameters measured. Here, we use ring-width and stable isotopes in cellulose of trees from the ...
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Open AccessWater availability drives gas exchange and growth of trees in northeastern US, not elevated CO2 and reduced acid deposition
Dynamic global vegetation models (DGVM) exhibit high uncertainty about how climate change, elevated atmospheric CO2 (atm. CO2) concentration, and atmospheric pollutants will impact carbon sequestration in foreste...
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Climatic signal from Pinus leucodermis axial resin ducts: a tree-ring time series approach
Develo** long-term chronologies of tree-ring anatomical features to evaluate climatic relationships within species might serve as an annual proxy to explore and elucidate the climatic drivers affecting xylem...
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Erratum to: Eight-hundred years of summer temperature variations in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula reconstructed from tree rings
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Eight-hundred years of summer temperature variations in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula reconstructed from tree rings
July-to-October temperature variations are reconstructed for the last 800 years based on tree-ring widths from the Cazorla Range. Annual tree-ring width at this site has been found to be negatively correlated ...
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Age effects and climate response in trees: a multi-proxy tree-ring test in old-growth life stages
Aging in trees implies a progressive reduction in the growth rate, related to a shortening of the growing period and changes in the photosynthetic capability and efficiency. These changes may continue during t...
