A new generation of sensors and monitoring tools to support climate-smart forestry practices

C Torresan, M Benito Garzón, M O'grady… - Canadian Journal of …, 2021 - cdnsciencepub.com
Climate-smart forestry (CSF) is an emerging branch of sustainable adaptive forest
management aimed at enhancing the potential of forests to adapt to and mitigate climate …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding tree failure—A systematic review and meta-analysis

M van Haaften, Y Liu, Y Wang, Y Zhang, C Gardebroek… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Recent research has indicated an increase in the likelihood and impact of tree failure. The
potential for trees to fail relates to various biomechanical and physical factors. Strikingly …

Diel and seasonal stem growth responses to climatic variation are consistent across species in a subtropical tree community

B Zhou, F Sterck, B Kruijt, ZX Fan… - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how intra‐annual stem growth responds to atmospheric and soil conditions
is essential for assessing the effects of climate extremes on forest productivity. In species …

Toward stomatal–flux based forest protection against ozone: The MOTTLES approach

E Paoletti, A Alivernini, A Anav, O Badea… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
European standards for the protection of forests from ozone (O 3) are based on atmospheric
exposure (AOT40) that is not always representative of O 3 effects since it is not a proxy of …

Evidence of elevation-specific growth changes of spruce, fir, and beech in European mixed mountain forests during the last three centuries

H Pretzsch, T Hilmers, P Biber… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
In Europe, mixed mountain forests, primarily comprised of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.)
Karst.), silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), and European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), cover about 10× …

Changes in structural heterogeneity and stand productivity by mixing Scots pine and Maritime pine

J Riofrío, M del Río, H Pretzsch, F Bravo - Forest ecology and management, 2017 - Elsevier
Mixed-species stands have been studied extensively due to their potentially superior
productivity, multi-functionality benefits and high ecological value compared to pure stands …

An earlier start of growing season can affect tree radial growth through regulating cumulative growth rate

J Kang, Z Yang, B Yu, Q Ma, S Jiang… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is profoundly affecting phenology, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
Nevertheless, how tree radial growth responds to phenological shifts remains to be …

Evidences of wider latewood in Pinus sylvestris from a forest-steppe of Southern Siberia

A Arzac, EA Babushkina, P Fonti, V Slobodchikova… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate affects wood formation with consequences for the functioning and survival of trees.
Since tree-rings tissues (ie, earlywood and latewood) are formed at different time in the …

Contrasting growth response of evergreen and deciduous arctic‐alpine shrub species to climate variability

S Dobbert, R Pape, J Löffler - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Broad‐scale changes in arctic‐alpine vegetation and their global effects have long been
recognized and labeled one of the clearest examples of the terrestrial impacts of climate …

[HTML][HTML] Establishing a baseline to monitor future climate-change-effects on peripheral populations of Abies alba in central Apennines

F Ducci, A De Rogatis, R Proietti, AL Curtu… - Annals of Forest …, 2021 - afrjournal.org
Understanding tree species responses to climate change is crucial for preserving
biodiversity especially in Southern Europe hot spots where Abies alba is widely spread …