Marko Smiljanić

Dr. Marko Smiljanić

Soldmannstr. 15, Room 2.30

Phone: +49 (0) 38 34 - 420 41 41

marko.smiljanic313(at)gmail(dot)com

Focus of research
  • Dendroecology
  • Tree growth
  • Plant ecology
Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Date of birth: 2nd of April 1984
Citizenship: Serbian
Education and work experience
since 2011 PhD-student at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald
2009-2011 Master studies at Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Thesis: Structure of the mixed Beech, Norway Maple, Sycamore and Ash stands in Gučevo area (in Serbian)
2003-2009 Diploma studies at Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Diploma: Structural characteristics of beech stand on Kučaj mountains (in Serbian)
Publications
Peer reviewed
2023

Jan Tumajer, Sabine Braun, Andreas Burger, Tobias Scharnweber, Marko Smiljanic, Lorenz Walthert, Roman Zweifel and Martin Wilmking
Dendrometers challenge the ‘moon wood concept’ by elucidating the absence of lunar cycles in tree stem radius oscillation
Scientific Reports 13: 19904 (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-47013-y

2022

Alba Anadon-Rosell, Tobias Scharnweber, Georg von Arx, Richard L. Peters, Marko Smiljanić, Simon Weddell and Martin Wilmking
Growth and Wood Trait Relationships of Alnus glutinosa in Peatland Forest Stands With Contrasting Water Regimes
Frontiers in Plant Science 12: 788106. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.788106

Jonas J. Lembrechts, Johan van den Hoogen, Juha Aalto, Michael B. Ashcroft, Pieter De Frenne, Julia Kemppinen, Martin Kopecký, Miska Luoto, Ilya M. D. Maclean, Thomas W. Crowther, Joseph J. Bailey, Stef Haesen, David H. Klinges, Pekka Niittynen, Brett R. Scheffers, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Peter Aartsma, Otar Abdalaze, Mehdi Abedi, Rien Aerts, Negar Ahmadian, Antje Ahrends, Juha M. Alatalo, Jake M. Alexander, Camille Nina Allonsius, Jan Altman, Christof Ammann, Christian Andres, Christopher Andrews, Jonas Ardö, Nicola Arriga, Alberto Arzac, Valeria Aschero, Rafael L. Assis, Jakob Johann Assmann, Maaike Y. Bader, Khadijeh Bahalkeh, Peter Barančok, Isabel C. Barrio, Agustina Barros, Matti Barthel, Edmund W. Basham, Marijn Bauters, Manuele Bazzichetto, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Michael C. Bell, Juan C. Benavides, José Luis Benito Alonso, Bernd J. Berauer, Jarle W. Bjerke, Robert G. Björk, Mats P. Björkman, Katrin Björnsdóttir, Benjamin Blonder, Pascal Boeckx, Julia Boike, Stef Bokhorst, Bárbara N. S. Brum, Josef Brůna, Nina Buchmann, Pauline Buysse, José Luís Camargo, Otávio C. Campoe, Onur Candan, Rafaella Canessa, Nicoletta Cannone, Michele Carbognani, Jofre Carnicer, Angélica Casanova-Katny, Simone Cesarz, Bogdan Chojnicki, Philippe Choler, Steven L. Chown, Edgar F. Cifuentes, Marek Čiliak, Tamara Contador, Peter Convey, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Edoardo Cremonese, Salvatore R. Curasi, Robin Curtis, Maurizio Cutini, C. Johan Dahlberg, Gergana N. Daskalova, Miguel Angel de Pablo, Stefano Della Chiesa, Jürgen Dengler, Bart Deronde, Patrice Descombes, Valter Di Cecco, Michele Di Musciano, Jan Dick, Romina D. Dimarco, Jiri Dolezal, Ellen Dorrepaal, Jiří Dušek, Nico Eisenhauer, Lars Eklundh, Todd E. Erickson, Brigitta Erschbamer, Werner Eugster, Robert M. Ewers, Dan A. Exton, Nicolas Fanin, Fatih Fazlioglu, Iris Feigenwinter, Giuseppe Fenu, Olga Ferlian, M. Rosa Fernández Calzado, Eduardo Fernández-Pascual, Manfred Finckh, Rebecca Finger Higgens, T'ai G. W. Forte, Erika C. Freeman, Esther R. Frei, Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo, Rafael A. García, María B. García, Charly Géron, Mana Gharun, Dany Ghosn, Khatuna Gigauri, Anne Gobin, Ignacio Goded, Mathias Goeckede, Felix Gottschall, Keith Goulding, Sanne Govaert, Bente Jessen Graae, Sarah Greenwood, Caroline Greiser, Achim Grelle, Benoit Guénard, Mauro Guglielmin, Joannès Guillemot, Peter Haase, Sylvia Haider, Aud H. Halbritter, Maroof Hamid, Albin Hammerle, Arndt Hampe, Siri V. Haugum, Lucia Hederová, Bernard Heinesch, Carole Helfter, Daniel Hepenstrick, Maximiliane Herberich, Mathias Herbst, Luise Hermanutz, David S. Hik, Raúl Hoffrén, Jürgen Homeier, Lukas Hörtnagl, Toke T. Høye, Filip Hrbacek, Kristoffer Hylander, Hiroki Iwata, Marcin Antoni Jackowicz-Korczynski, Hervé Jactel, Järvi Järveoja, Szymon Jastrzębowski, Anke Jentsch, Juan J. Jiménez, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Tommaso Jucker, Alistair S. Jump, Radoslaw Juszczak, Róbert Kanka, Vít Kašpar, George Kazakis, Julia Kelly, Anzar A. Khuroo, Leif Klemedtsson, Marcin Klisz, Natascha Kljun, Alexander Knohl, Johannes Kobler, Jozef Kollár, Martyna M. Kotowska, Bence Kovács, Juergen Kreyling, Andrea Lamprecht, Simone I. Lang, Christian Larson, Keith Larson, Kamil Laska, Guerric le Maire, Rachel I. Leihy, Luc Lens, Bengt Liljebladh, Annalea Lohila, Juan Lorite, Benjamin Loubet, Joshua Lynn, Martin Macek, Roy Mackenzie, Enzo Magliulo, Regine Maier, Francesco Malfasi, František Máliš, Matěj Man, Giovanni Manca, Antonio Manco, Tanguy Manise, Paraskevi Manolaki, Felipe Marciniak, Radim Matula, Ana Clara Mazzolari, Sergiy Medinets, Volodymyr Medinets, Camille Meeussen, Sonia Merinero, Rita de Cássia Guimarães Mesquita, Katrin Meusburger, Filip J. R. Meysman, Sean T. Michaletz, Ann Milbau, Dmitry Moiseev, Pavel Moiseev, Andrea Mondoni, Ruth Monfries, Leonardo Montagnani, Mikel Moriana-Armendariz, Umberto Morra di Cella, Martin Mörsdorf, Jonathan R. Mosedale, Lena Muffler, Miriam Muñoz-Rojas, Jonathan A. Myers, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Laszlo Nagy, Marianna Nardino, Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis, Emily Newling, Lena Nicklas, Georg Niedrist, Armin Niessner, Mats B. Nilsson, Signe Normand, Marcelo D. Nosetto, Yann Nouvellon, Martin A. Nuñez, Romà Ogaya, Jérôme Ogée, Joseph Okello, Janusz Olejnik, Jørgen Eivind Olesen, Øystein Opedal, Simone Orsenigo, Andrej Palaj, Timo Pampuch, Alexey V. Panov, Meelis Pärtel, Ada Pastor, Aníbal Pauchard, Harald Pauli, Marian Pavelka, William D. Pearse, Matthias Peichl, Loïc Pellissier, Rachel M. Penczykowski, Josep Penuelas, Matteo Petit Bon, Alessandro Petraglia, Shyam S. Phartyal, Gareth K. Phoenix, Casimiro Pio, Andrea Pitacco, Camille Pitteloud, Roman Plichta, Francesco Porro, Miguel Portillo-Estrada, Jérôme Poulenard, Rafael Poyatos, Anatoly S. Prokushkin, Radoslaw Puchalka, Mihai Pușcaș, Dajana Radujković, Krystal Randall, Amanda Ratier Backes, Sabine Remmele, Wolfram Remmers, David Renault, Anita C. Risch, Christian Rixen, Sharon A. Robinson, Bjorn J.M. Robroek, Adrian V. Rocha, Christian Rossi, Graziano Rossi, Olivier Roupsard, Alexey V. Rubtsov, Patrick Saccone, Clotilde Sagot, Jhonatan Sallo Bravo, Cinthya C. Santos, Judith M. Sarneel, Tobias Scharnweber, Jonas Schmeddes, Marius Schmidt, Thomas Scholten, Max Schuchardt, Naomi Schwartz, Tony Scott, Julia Seeber, Ana Cristina Segalin de Andrade, Tim Seipel, Philipp Semenchuk, Rebecca A. Senior, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Piotr Sewerniak, Ankit Shekhar, Nikita V. Sidenko, Lukas Siebicke, Laura Siegwart Collier, Elizabeth Simpson, David P. Siqueira, Zuzana Sitková, Johan Six, Marko Smiljanić, Stuart W. Smith, Sarah Smith-Tripp, Ben Somers, Mia Vedel Sørensen, José João L. L. Souza, Bartolomeu Israel Souza, Arildo Souza Dias, Marko J. Spasojevic, James D. M. Speed, Fabien Spicher, Angela Stanisci, Klaus Steinbauer, Rainer Steinbrecher, Michael Steinwandter, Michael Stemkovski, Jörg G. Stephan, Christian Stiegler, Stefan Stoll, Martin Svátek, Miroslav Svoboda, Torbern Tagesson, Andrew J. Tanentzap, Franziska Tanneberger, Jean-Paul Theurillat, Haydn J. D. Thomas, Andrew D. Thomas, Katja Tielbörger, Marcello Tomaselli, Urs Albert Treier, Mario Trouillier, Pavel Dan Turtureanu, Rosamond Tutton, Vilna A. Tyystjärvi, Masahito Ueyama, Karol Ujházy, Mariana Ujházyová, Domas Uogintas, Anastasiya V. Urban, Josef Urban, Marek Urbaniak, Tudor-Mihai Ursu, Francesco Primo Vaccari, Stijn Van de Vondel, Liesbeth van den Brink, Maarten Van Geel, Vigdis Vandvik, Pieter Vangansbeke, Andrej Varlagin, G.F. Veen, Elmar Veenendaal, Susanna E. Venn, Hans Verbeeck, Erik Verbrugggen, Frank G.A. Verheijen, Luis Villar, Luca Vitale, Pascal Vittoz, Maria Vives-Ingla, Jonathan von Oppen, Josefine Walz, Runxi Wang, Yifeng Wang, Robert G. Way, Ronja E. M. Wedegärtner, Robert Weigel, Jan Wild, Matthew Wilkinson, Martin Wilmking, Lisa Wingate, Manuela Winkler, Sonja Wipf, Georg Wohlfahrt, Georgios Xenakis, Yan Yang, Zicheng Yu, Kailiang Yu, Florian Zellweger, Jian Zhang, Zhaochen Zhang, Peng Zhao, Klaudia Ziemblińska, Reiner Zimmermann, Shengwei Zong, Viacheslav I. Zyryanov, Ivan Nijs and Jonathan Lenoir
Global maps of soil temperature
Global Change Biology 28 (9): 3110-3144. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16060

Roberto L. Salomón, Richard L. Peters, Roman Zweifel, Ute G. W. Sass-Klaassen, Annemiek I. Stegehuis, Marko Smiljanić, Rafael Poyatos, Flurin Babst, Emil Cienciala, Patrick Fonti, Bas J. W. Lerink, Marcus Lindner, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta, Maurizio Mencuccini, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Ernst van der Maaten, Georg von Arx, Andreas Bär, Linar Akhmetzyanov, Daniel Balanzategui, Michal Bellan, Jörg Bendix, Daniel Berveiller, Miroslav Blaženec, Vojtěch Čada, Vinicio Carraro, Sébastien Cecchini, Tommy Chan, Marco Conedera, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Ľubica Ditmarová, Jiri Dolezal, Eric Dufrêne, Johannes Edvardsson, Stefan Ehekircher, Alicia Forner, Jan Frouz, Andrea Ganthaler, Vladimír Gryc, Aylin Güney, Ingo Heinrich, Rainer Hentschel, Pavel Janda, Marek Ježík, Hans-Peter Kahle, Simon Knüsel, Jan Krejza, Łukasz Kuberski, Jiří Kučera, François Lebourgeois, Martin Mikoláš, Radim Matula, Stefan Mayr, Walter Oberhuber, Nikolaus Obojes, Bruce Osborne, Teemu Paljakka, Roman Plichta, Inken Rabbel, Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber, Yann Salmon, Matthew Saunders, Tobias Scharnweber, Zuzana Sitková, Dominik Florian Stangler, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Marko Stojanović, Katarína Střelcová, Jan Světlík, Miroslav Svoboda, Brian Tobin, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Josef Urban, Fernando Valladares, Hanuš Vavrčík, Monika Vejpustková, Lorenz Walthert, Martin Wilmking, Ewa Zin, Junliang Zou and Kathy Steppe 
The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests
Nature Communications 13:28 (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27579-9

Jan Tumajer, Tobias Scharnweber, Marko Smiljanić and Martin Wilmking
Limitation by vapour pressure deficit shapes different intra-annual growth patterns of diffuse- and ring-porous temperate broadleaves
New Phytologist 223 (6): 2429-2441. DOI: 10.1111/nph.17952

2020

Jill E. Harvey, Marko Smiljanić, Tobias Scharnweber, Allan Buras, Anna Cedro, Roberto Cruz‐García, Igor Drobyshev, Karolina Janecka, Āris Jansons, Ryszard Kaczka, Marcin Klisz, Alar Läänelaid, Roberts Matisons, Lena Muffler, Kristina Sohar, Barbara Spyt, Juliane Stolz, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten‐Theunissen, Adomas Vitas, Robert Weigel, Jürgen Kreyling and Martin Wilmking
Tree growth influenced by warming winter climate and summer moisture availability in northern temperate forests
Global Change Biology 26(4): 2505–2518. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14966

Gerald Jurasinski, Sate Ahmad, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Jacqueline Berendt, Florian Beyer, Ralf Bill, Gesche Blume-Werry, John Couwenberg, Anke Günther, Hans Joosten, Franziska Koebsch, Daniel Köhn, Nils Koldrack, Jürgen Kreyling, Peter Leinweber, Bernd Lennartz, Haojie Liu, Dierk Michaelis, Almut Mrotzek, Wakene Negassa, Sandra Schenk, Franziska Schmacka, Sarah Schwieger, Marko Smiljanić, Franziska Tanneberger, Laurenz Teuber, Tim Urich, Haitao Wang, Micha Weil, Martin Wilmking, Dominik Zak and Nicole Wrage-Mönnig
From Understanding to Sustainable Use of Peatlands: The WETSCAPES Approach
Soil Systems 4 (1): 14. DOI:10.3390/soilsystems4010014

Jonas J. Lembrechts, Juha Aalto, Michael B. Ashcroft, Pieter De Frenne, Martin Kopecký, Jonathan Lenoir, Miska Luoto, Ilya M.D. Maclean, Olivier Roupsard, Eduardo Fuentes‐Lillo, Rafael A. García, Loïc Pellissier, Camille Pitteloud, Juha M. Alatalo, Stuart W. Smith, Robert G. Björk, Lena Muffler, Simone Cesarz, Felix Gottschall, Amanda Ratier Backes, Joseph Okello, Josef Urban, Roman Plichta, Martin Svátek, Shyam S. Phartyal, Sonja Wipf, Nico Eisenhauer, Mihai Pușcaș, Pavel Dan Turtureanu, Andrej Varlagin, Romina D. Dimarco, Alistair S. Jump, Krystal Randall, Ellen Dorrepaal, Keith Larson, Josefine Walz, Luca Vitale, Miroslav Svoboda, Rebecca Finger Higgens, Aud H. Halbritter, Salvatore R. Curasi, Ian Klupar, Austin Koontz, William D. Pearse, Elizabeth Simpson, Michael Stemkovski, Bente Jessen Graae, Mia Vedel Sørensen, Toke T. Høye, M. Rosa Fernández Calzado, Juan Lorite, Michele Carbognani, Marcello Tomaselli, T'ai G.W. Forte, Alessandro Petraglia, Stef Haesen, Ben Somers, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Mats P. Björkman, Kristoffer Hylander, Sonia Merinero, Mana Gharun, Nina Buchmann, Jiri Dolezal, Radim Matula, Andrew D. Thomas, Joseph J. Bailey, Dany Ghosn, George Kazakis, Miguel Angel de Pablo, Julia Kemppinen, Pekka Niittynen, Lisa Rew, Tim Seipel, Christian Larson, James D.M. Speed, Jonas Ardö, Nicoletta Cannone, Mauro Guglielmin, Francesco Malfasi, Maaike Y. Bader, Rafaella Canessa, Angela Stanisci, Juergen Kreyling, Jonas Schmeddes, Laurenz Teuber, Valeria Aschero, Marek Čiliak, František Máliš, Pallieter De Smedt, Sanne Govaert, Camille Meeussen, Pieter Vangansbeke, Khatuna Gigauri, Andrea Lamprecht, Harald Pauli, Klaus Steinbauer, Manuela Winkler, Masahito Ueyama, Martin A. Nuñez, Tudor‐Mihai Ursu, Sylvia Haider, Ronja E.M. Wedegärtner, Marko Smiljanić, Mario Trouillier, Martin Wilmking, Jan Altman, Josef Brůna, Lucia Hederová, Martin Macek, Matěj Man, Jan Wild, Pascal Vittoz, Meelis Pärtel, Peter Barančok, Róbert Kanka, Jozef Kollár, Andrej Palaj, Agustina Barros, Ana Clara Mazzolari, Marijn Bauters, Pascal Boeckx, José Luis Benito Alonso, Shengwei Zong, Valter Di Cecco, Zuzana Sitková, Katja Tielbörger, Liesbeth van den Brink, Robert Weigel, Jürgen Homeier, C. Johan Dahlberg, Sergiy Medinets, Volodymyr Medinets, Hans J. De Boeck, Miguel Portillo‐Estrada, Lore T. Verryckt, Ann Milbau, Gergana N. Daskalova, Haydn J.D. Thomas, Isla H. Myers‐Smith, Benjamin Blonder, Jörg G. Stephan, Patrice Descombes, Florian Zellweger, Esther R. Frei, Bernard Heinesch, Christopher Andrews, Jan Dick, Lukas Siebicke, Adrian Rocha, Rebecca A. Senior, Christian Rixen, Juan J. Jimenez, Julia Boike, Aníbal Pauchard, Thomas Scholten, Brett Scheffers, David Klinges, Edmund W. Basham, Jian Zhang, Zhaochen Zhang, Charly Géron, Fatih Fazlioglu, Onur Candan, Jhonatan Sallo Bravo, Filip Hrbacek, Kamil Laska, Edoardo Cremonese, Peter Haase, Fernando E. Moyano, Christian Rossi and Ivan Nijs
SoilTemp: a global database of near‐surface temperature
Global Change Biology 26: 6616-6629.DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123

Tobias Scharnweber, Marko Smiljanić, Roberto Cruz García, Michael Manthey and Martin Wilmking
Tree growth at the end of the 21st century the extreme years 2018/19 as template for future growth conditions
Environmental Research Letters 15: 074022. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab865d

Martin Wilmking, Marieke van der Maaten‐Theunissen, Ernst van der Maaten, Tobias Scharnweber, Allan Buras, Christine Biermann, Marina Gurskaya, Martin Hallinger, Jelena Lange, Rohan Shetti, Marko Smiljanić and Mario Trouillier
Global assessment of relationships between climate and tree growth
Global Change Biology 26: 3212-3220. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15057

2019

Roberto Cruz-García, Angela Balzano, Katarina Čufar, Tobias Scharnweber, Marko Smiljanić, and Martin Wilmking
Combining Dendrometer Series and Xylogenesis Imagery—DevX, a Simple Visualization Tool to Explore Plant Secondary Growth Phenology
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2: 60. DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00060

Tobias Scharnweber, Karl-Uwe Heußner, Marko Smiljanić, Ingo Heinrich, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Ernst van der Maaten, Thomas Struwe, Allan Buras and Martin Wilmking
Removing the no-analogue bias in modern accelerated tree growth leads to stronger medieval drought
Scientific Reports (2019) 9: 2509. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39040-5

2018

Rohan Shetti, Allan Buras, Marko Smiljanić and Martin Wilmking
Climate sensitivity is affected by growth differentiation along the length of Juniperus communis L. shrub stems in the Ural Mountains
Dendrochronologia 49: 29–35. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2018.02.006

Marko Smiljanić and Martin Wilmking
Drivers of stem radial variation and its pattern in peatland Scots pines: A pilot study
Dendrochronologia 47: 30–37. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2017.12.001

Ernst van der Maaten, Jonas Pape, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Tobias Scharnweber, Marko Smiljanić, Roberto Cruz-García and Martin Wilmking
Distinct growth phenology but similar daily stem dynamics in three co-occurring broadleaved tree species
Tree Physiology 38(12): 1820–1828. DOI:  10.1093/treephys/tpy042

2016

Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marko Smiljanić, Sergio Rossi, Sonia Simard, Martin Wilmking, Annie Deslauriers, Patrick Fonti, Georg von Arx and Olivier Bouriaud
dendrometeR: Analyzing the pulse of trees in R
Dendrochronologia 40: 12–16. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2016.06.001

2015

Ilka Beil, Allan Buras, Martin Hallinger, Marko Smiljanić and Martin Wilmking
Shrubs tracing sea surface temperature – Calluna vulgaris on the Faroe Islands
International Journal of Biometeorology 59(11): 1567–1575. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-015-0963-4

2014

Jeong-Wook Seo, Marko Smiljanić and Martin Wilmking
Optimizing cell-anatomical chronologies of Scots pine by stepwise increasing the number of radial tracheid rows included – case study based on three Scandinavian sites
Dendrochronologia 32(3): 205–209. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2014.02.002

Marko Smiljanić, Jeong-Wook Seo, Alar Läänelaid, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Branko Stajic and Martin Wilmking
Peatland pines as a proxy for water table fluctuations: Disentangling tree growth, hydrology and possible human influence
Science of the Total Environment 500-501: 52–63. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.056

Other publications
2014

Martin Wilmking, Allan Buras, Ingo Heinrich, Tobias Scharnweber, Sonia Simard, Marko Smiljanić, Ernst van der Maaten and Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen
From process to proxy: Ecological challenges and opportunities of tree-ring based environmental reconstructions
Geophysical Research Abstracts 16: (EGU2014-2871)