Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling

SA Kannenberg, CR Schwalm… - Ecology letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐year lags in tree drought recovery, termed 'drought legacy effects', are important for
understanding the impacts of drought on forest ecosystems, including carbon (C) cycle …

The role of plant hormones in tree-ring formation

V Buttò, A Deslauriers, S Rossi, P Rozenberg… - Trees, 2020 - Springer
Key message The spatial and temporal distributions of plant hormones during tree-ring
formation are beginning to be elucidated. Plant hormones play specific roles in tree-ring …

Evidence of climate-induced stress of Norway spruce along elevation gradient preceding the current dieback in Central Europe

J Krejza, E Cienciala, J Světlík, M Bellan, E Noyer… - Trees, 2021 - Springer
Key message Effect of drought during 2017 and 2018 resulted in radial stem increment
reduction to 78% and 61%, respectively, of the levels occurring in normal year 2016 in …

Drought impacts on tree carbon sequestration and water use–evidence from intra‐annual tree‐ring characteristics

E Martínez‐Sancho, K Treydte, MM Lehmann… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of climate extremes on forest ecosystems is poorly understood but important for
predicting carbon and water cycle feedbacks to climate. Some knowledge gaps still remain …

[HTML][HTML] Fading regulation of diurnal temperature ranges on drought-induced growth loss for drought-tolerant tree species

X Zhang, T Rademacher, H Liu, L Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Warming-induced droughts caused tree growth loss across the globe, leading to substantial
carbon loss to the atmosphere. Drought-induced growth loss, however, can be regulated by …

Water potential control of turgor‐driven tracheid enlargement in Scots pine at its xeric distribution edge

A Cabon, L Fernández‐de‐Uña… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The extent to which water availability can be used to predict the enlargement and final
dimensions of xylem conduits remains an open issue. We reconstructed the time course of …

Couplings in cell differentiation kinetics mitigate air temperature influence on conifer wood anatomy

HE Cuny, P Fonti, CBK Rathgeber… - Plant, Cell & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conifer trees possess a typical anatomical tree‐ring structure characterized by a transition
from large and thin‐walled earlywood tracheids to narrow and thick‐walled latewood …

Xylogenesis: coniferous trees of temperate forests are listening to the climate tale during the growing season but only remember the last words!

HE Cuny, CBK Rathgeber - Plant Physiology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The complex inner mechanisms that create typical conifer tree-ring structure (ie the transition
from large, thin-walled earlywood cells to narrow, thick-walled latewood cells) were recently …

[HTML][HTML] Tree growth under climate change: evidence from xylogenesis timings and kinetics

J Vieira, A Carvalho, F Campelo - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tree growth is one of the most studied aspects of tree biology, particularly secondary growth.
In the Mediterranean region, cambial activity is mostly determined by water availability …

Radial growth of Larix sibirica was more sensitive to climate at low than high altitudes in the Altai Mountains, China

P Zhou, JG Huang, H Liang, S Rossi… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
Considering climate change, there is no consensus on the impact of global warming on
forest growth. Therefore, it is crucial to investigate the effects of climate change on tree radial …