The what, how, why, and when of dendrochemistry:(paleo) environmental information from the chemical analysis of tree rings

G Binda, A Di Iorio, D Monticelli - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The chemical analysis of tree rings has attracted the interest of researchers in the past five
decades in view of the possibility of exploiting this biological indicator as a widely available …

[HTML][HTML] Ranking of tree-ring based hydroclimate reconstructions of the past millennium

FC Ljungqvist, A Piermattei, A Seim, PJ Krusic… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
To place recent hydroclimate changes, including drought occurrences, in a long-term
historical context, tree-ring records serve as an important natural archive. Here, we evaluate …

Increased water‐use efficiency during the 20th century did not translate into enhanced tree growth

J Peñuelas, JG Canadell… - Global Ecology and …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The goals of this study are:(1) to determine whether increasing atmospheric CO2
concentrations and changing climate increased intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE, as …

The effect of atmospheric CO2 concentration on carbon isotope fractionation in C3 land plants

BA Schubert, AH Jahren - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Because atmospheric carbon dioxide is the ultimate source of all land-plant carbon, workers
have suggested that pCO2 level may exert control over the amount of 13C incorporated into …

Long-term ecological consequences of forest fires in the continuous permafrost zone of Siberia

AV Kirdyanov, M Saurer, R Siegwolf… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Wildfires are an important factor in controlling forest ecosystem dynamics across the
circumpolar boreal zone. An improved understanding of their direct and indirect, short-to …

Plant response to climate change along the forest‐tundra ecotone in northeastern Siberia

LT Berner, PSA Beck, AG Bunn… - Global Change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Russia's boreal (taiga) biome will likely contract sharply and shift northward in response to
21st century climatic change, yet few studies have examined plant response to climatic …

Uniform climate sensitivity in tree-ring stable isotopes across species and sites in a mid-latitude temperate forest

C Hartl-Meier, C Zang, ULF Büntgen… - Tree …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Tree-ring stable isotopes, providing insight into drought-induced eco-physiological
mechanisms, are frequently used to reconstruct past changes in growing season …

Tree ring density-based summer temperature reconstruction for the central Hengduan Mountains in southern China

ZX Fan, A Bräuning, B Yang, KF Cao - Global and Planetary Change, 2009 - Elsevier
Variations in ring width and wood density of Picea brachytyla were used to develop high-
resolution climate proxy data to extend the existing climate record in the central Hengduan …

Impact of climate and CO2 on a millennium-long tree-ring carbon isotope record

KS Treydte, DC Frank, M Saurer, G Helle… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2009 - Elsevier
We present one millennium-long (1171-year), and three 100 year long annually resolved
δ13C tree-ring chronologies from ecologically varying Juniperus stands in the Karakorum …

[HTML][HTML] An optimized method for stable isotope analysis of tree rings by extracting cellulose directly from cross-sectional laths

A Kagawa, M Sano, T Nakatsuka, T Ikeda, S Kubo - Chemical Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Stable isotopes in tree-ring α-cellulose are valued as environmental proxies and their use is
steadily increasing; however, preparation of α-cellulose is a bottleneck in isotope analysis …