"Dendrochronology"

When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight

The demand for large-scale and long-term information on tree growth is increasing rapidly as environmental change research strives to quantify and forecast the impacts of continued warming on forest ecosystems. This demand, combined with the now …

Fusing tree-ring and forest inventory data to infer influences on tree growth

Abstract Better understanding and prediction of tree growth is important because of the many ecosystem services provided by forests and the uncertainty surrounding how forests will respond to anthropogenic climate change. With the ultimate goal of …

Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth

Abstract Predicting long-term trends in forest growth requires accurate characterisation of how the relationship between forest productivity and climatic stress varies across climatic regimes. Using a network of over two million tree-ring …