Dendroecological publications

Alba Anadon-Rosell, Melissa A. Dawes, Patrick Fonti, Frank Hagedorn, Christian Rixen and Georg von Arx
Xylem anatomical and growth responses of the dwarf shrub Vaccinium myrtillus to experimental CO₂ enrichment and soil warming at treeline
Science of the Total Environment 642: 1172–1183. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.117

Daniel Balanzategui, Antje Knorr, Karl-Uwe Heussner, Tomasz Wazny, Wolfgang Beck, Michał Słowiński, Gerhard Helle, Allan Buras, Martin Wilmking, Ernst van der Maaten, Tobias Scharnweber, Isabel Dorado-Liñán and Ingo Heinrich
An 810-year history of cold season temperature variability for northern Poland
Boreas 47(2): 443–453. DOI: 10.1111/bor.12274

Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Signe Normand, Nadja Rüger, Pieter S.A. Beck, Anne Blach-Overgaard, Daan Blok, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Bruce C. Forbes, Damien Georges, Scott J. Goetz, Kevin C. Guay, Gregory H.R. Henry, Janneke HilleRisLambers, Robert D. Hollister, Dirk N. Karger, Jens Kattge, Peter Manning, Janet S. Prevéy, Christian Rixen, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Haydn J.D. Thomas, Mark Vellend, Martin Wilmking, Sonja Wipf, Michele Carbognani, Luise Hermanutz, Esther Lévesque, Ulf Molau, Alessandro Petraglia, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Marko J. Spasojevic, Marcello Tomaselli, Tage Vowles, Juha M. Alatalo, Heather D. Alexander, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Mariska te Beest, Logan Berner, Robert G. Björk, Agata Buchwal, Allan Buras, Katherine Christie, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Stefan Dullinger, Bo Elberling, Anu Eskelinen, Esther R. Frei, Oriol Grau, Paul Grogan, Martin Hallinger, Karen A. Harper, Monique M.P.D. Heijmans, James Hudson, Karl Hülber, Maitane Iturrate-Garcia, Colleen M. Iversen, Francesca Jaroszynska, Jill F. Johnstone, Rasmus Halfdan Jørgensen, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Rebecca Klady, Sara Kuleza, Aino Kulonen, Laurent J. Lamarque, Trevor Lantz, Chelsea J. Little, James D. M. Speed, Anders Michelsen, Ann Milbau, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Nielsen, Josep M. Ninot, Steven F. Oberbauer, Johan Olofsson, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Sabine B. Rumpf, Philipp Semenchuk, Rohan Shetti, Laura Siegwart Collier, Lorna E. Street, Katharine N. Suding, Ken D. Tape, Andrew Trant, Urs A. Treier, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Tremblay, Susanna Venn, Stef Weijers, Tara Zamin, Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe, William A. Gould, David S. Hik, Annika Hofgaard, Ingibjörg S. Jónsdóttir, Janet Jorgenson, Julia Klein, Borgthor Magnusson, Craig Tweedie, Philip A. Wookey, Michael Bahn, Benjamin Blonder, Peter M. van Bodegom, Benjamin Bond-Lamberty, Giandiego Campetella, Bruno E.L. Cerabolini, F. Stuart Chapin III, William K. Cornwell, Joseph Craine, Matteo Dainese, Franciska T. de Vries, Sandra Díaz, Brian J. Enquist, Walton Green, Ruben Milla, Ülo Niinemets, Yusuke Onoda, Jenny C. Ordoñez, Wim A. Ozinga, Josep Penuelas, Hendrik Poorter, Peter Poschlod, Peter B. Reich, Brody Sandel, Brandon Schamp, Serge Sheremetev and Evan Weiher
Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome
Nature 562: 57–62. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Signe Normand, Haydn J.D. Thomas, Juha M. Alatalo, Heather Alexander, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Yang Bai, Gaurav Baruah, Mariska te Beest, Logan Berner, Robert G. Björk, Daan Blok, Helge Bruelheide, Agata Buchwal, Allan Buras, Michele Carbognani, Katie Christie, Laura S Collier, Elisabeth J. Cooper, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Katharine J.M. Dickinson, Stefan Dullinger, Bo Elberling, Anu Eskelinen, Bruce C. Forbes, Esther R. Frei, Maitane Iturrate Garcia, Megan K. Good, Oriol Grau, Peter Green, Michelle Greve, Paul Grogan, Sylvia Haider, Tomáš Hájek, Martin Hallinger, Konsta Happonen, Karen A. Harper, Monique M.P.D. Heijmans, Gregory H.R. Henry, Luise Hermanutz, Rebecca E. Hewitt, Robert D. Hollister, James Hudson, Karl Hülber, Colleen M. Iversen, Francesca Jaroszynska, Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Jill Johnstone, Rasmus Halfdan Jorgensen, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Rebecca Klady, Jitka Klimešová, Annika Korsten, Sara Kuleza, Aino Kulonen, Laurent J. Lamarque, Trevor Lantz, Amanda Lavalle, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Esther Levesque, Chelsea J. Little, Miska Luoto, Petr Macek, Michelle C. Mack, Rabia Mathakutha, Anders Michelsen, Ann Milbau, Ulf Molau, John W. Morgan, Martin Alfons Mörsdorf, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Sigrid Schøler Nielsen, Josep M. Ninot, Steve Oberbauer, Johan Olofsson, Vladimir G. Onipchenko, Alessandro Petraglia, Catherine Pickering, Janet S. Prevéy, Christian Rixen, Sabine B. Rumpf, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Philipp Semenchuk, Rohan Shetti, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Marko J. Spasojevic, James David Mervyn Speed, Lorna Street, Katharine Suding, Ken D. Tape, Marcello Tomaselli, Andrew Trant, Urs A. Treier, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Maxime Tremblay, Susanna Venn, Anna-Maria Virkkala, Tage Vowles, Stef Weijers, Martin Wilmking, Sonja Wipf and Tara Zamin
Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome
Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(12): 1402–1411. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12821

Allan Buras, Barbara Spyt, Karolina Janecka and Ryszard J. Kaczka
Divergent growth of Norway Spruce on Babia Góra Mountain, Poland
Dendrochronologia 50: 33–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2018.04.005

Andrew J. Hacket-Pain, Davide Ascoli, Giorgio Vacchiano, Franco Biondi, Liam Cavin, Marco Conedera, Igor Drobyshev, Isabel Dorado Linan, Andrew D. Friend, Michael Grabner, Claudia Hartl, Juergen Kreyling, Franc
ois Lebourgeois, Tom Levanic, Annette Menzel, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Lena Muffler, Renzo Motta, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Ionel Popa, Tobias Scharnweber, Robert Weigel, Martin Wilmking and Christian S. Zang
Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species
Ecology Letters 21(12): 1833–1844. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13158

Jill E. Harvey, Jodi N. Axelson and Dan J. Smith
Disturbance–climate relationships between wildfire and western spruce budworm in interior British Columbia
Ecosphere 9(3): e02126. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2126

Knut Kaiser, Silke Oldorff, Carsten Breitbach, Christoph Kappler, Martin Theuerkauf, Tobias Scharnweber, Manuela Schult, Mathias Küster, Christof Engelhardt, Ingo Heinrich, Michael Hupfer, Grit Schwalbe, Tom Kirschey and Oliver Bens
A submerged pine forest from the early Holocene in the Mecklenburg Lake District, northern Germany
Boreas 47(3): 910–925. DOI: 10.1111/bor.12314

Ryszard Kaczka, Barbara Spyt, Karolina Janecka, Ilka Beil, Ulf Buentgen,Tobias Scharnweber, Daniel Nievergelt and Martin Wilmking
Different Maximum Latewood Density and Blue Intensity techniques reveal similar results
Dendrochronologia 49: 94–101. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2018.03.005

Jelena Lange, Allan Buras, Roberto Cruz García, Marina Gurskaya, Risto Jalkanen, Vladimir Kukarskih, Jeong-Wook Seo and Martin Wilmking
Climate Regimes Override Micro-Site Effects on the Summer Temperature Signal of Scots Pine at Its Northern Distribution Limits
Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 1597. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01597

Niels Schwab, Ryszard J. Kaczka, Karolina Janecka, Jürgen Böhner, Ram P. Chaudhary, Thomas Scholten and Udo Schickhoff
Climate change-induced shift of tree growth sensitivity at a central Himalayan treeline ecotone
Forests 9(5): 267. DOI: 10.3390/f9050267

Rohan Shetti, Allan Buras, Marko Smiljanic, Martin Hallinger, Andrej A. Grigoriev and Martin Wilmking
Does sex matter? Gender-specificity and its influence on site-chronologies in the common dioecious shrub Juniperus communis
Dendrochronologia 49: 118–126. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2018.03.006

Rohan Shetti, Allan Buras, Marko Smiljanic 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

Mario Trouillier, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Jill E. Harvey, David Würth, Martin Schnittler and Martin Wilmking
Visualizing Individual Tree Differences in Tree-Ring Studies
Forests 9(4): 216. DOI: 10.3390/f9040216

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

Robert Weigel, Lena Muffler, Marcin Klisz, Juergen Kreyling, Marieke van der Maaten‐Theunissen, Martin Wilmking and Ernst van der Maaten
Winter matters: Sensitivity to winter climate and cold events increases towards the cold distribution margin of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)
Journal of Biogeography 45(12): 2779–2790. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13444

Martin Wilmking, Allan Buras, Jiří Lehejček, Jelena Lange, Rohan Shetti and Ernst van der Maaten
Influence of larval outbreaks on the climate reconstruction potential of an Arctic shrub
Dendrochronologia 49: 36–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2018.02.010

David G. Würth, Pascal Eusemann, Mario Trouillier, Allan Buras, Andreas Burger, Martin Wilmking, Carl A. Roland, Glenn P. Juday und Martin Schnittler
Environment drives spatiotemporal patterns of clonality in white spruce (Picea glauca) in Alaska
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 48(12): 1577–1586. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2018-0234

Isabel C. Barrio, Elin Lindén, Mariska Te Beest, Johan Olofsson, Adrian Rocha, Eeva M. Soininen, Juha M. Alatalo, Tommi Andersson, Ashley Asmus, Julia Boike, Kari Anne Bråthen, John P. Bryant, Agata Buchwal, C. Guillermo Bueno, Katherine S. Christie, Yulia V. Denisova, Dagmar Egelkraut, Dorothee Ehrich, LeeAnn Fishback, Bruce C. Forbes, Maite Gartzia, Paul Grogan, Martin Hallinger, Monique M. P. D. Heijmans, David S. Hik, Annika Hofgaard, Milena Holmgren, Toke T. Høye, Diane C. Huebner, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Elina Kaarlejärvi, Timo Kumpula, Cynthia Y. M. J. G. Lange, Jelena Lange, Esther Lévesque, Juul Limpens, Marc Macias-Fauria, Isla Myers-Smith, Erik J. van Nieukerken, Signe Normand, Eric S. Post, Niels Martin Schmidt, Judith Sitters, Anna Skoracka, Alexander Sokolov, Natalya Sokolova, James D. M. Speed, Lorna E. Street, Maja K. Sundqvist, Otso Suominen, Nikita Tananaev, Jean-Pierre Tremblay, Christine Urbanowicz, Sergey A. Uvarov, David Watts, Martin Wilmking, Philip A. Wookey, Heike H. Zimmermann, Vitali Zverev and Mikhail V. Kozlov
Background invertebrate herbivory on dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa-nana complex) increases with temperature and precipitation across the tundra biome
Polar Biology 40(11): 2265–2278. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-017-2139-7

Uwe Buczko,Stefan Köhler, Fredericke Bahr, Tobias Scharnweber, Martin Wilmking and Gerald Jurasinski
Variability of soil carbon stocks in a mixed deciduous forest on hydromorphic soils
Geoderma 307: 8–18. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.07.015

Allan Buras, Jiri Lehejcek, Zuzana Michalova, Robert C. Morrissey, Miroslav Svoboda and Martin Wilmking
Shrubs shed light on 20th century Greenland Ice Sheet melting
Boreas 46(4): 667–677. DOI: 10.1111/bor.12244

Christin Carl, Dirk Landgraf, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Peter Biber and Hans Pretzsch
Robinia pseudoacacia L. Flower Analyzed by Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
Remote Sensing 9(11): 1091. DOI: 10.3390/rs9111091

Elena Pellizzari, J. Julio Camarero, Antonio Gazol, Elena Granda, Rohan Shetti, Martin Wilmking, Pavel Moiseev, Mario Pividori and Marco Carrer
Diverging shrub and tree growth from the Polar to the Mediterranean biomes across the European continent
Global Change Biology 23(8): 3169–3180.  DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13577

Adriana Príncipe, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Thomas Struwe, Martin Wilmking and Juergen Kreyling
Low resistance but high resilience in growth of a major deciduous forest tree (Fagus sylvatica L.) in response to late spring frost in southern Germany
Trees 31(2): 743–751. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-016-1505-3

Christopher P.O. Reyer, Stephen Bathgate, Kristina Blennow, Jose G. Borges, Harald Bugmann, Sylvain Delzon, Sonia P. Faias, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo, Barry Gardiner, Jose Ramon Gonzalez-Olabarria, Carlos Gracia, Juan Guerra Hernández, Seppo Kellomäki, Koen Kramer, Manfred J. Lexer, Marcus Lindner, Ernst van der Maaten, Michael Maroschek, Bart Muys, Bruce Nicoll, Marc Palahi, João H.N. Palma, Joana A Paulo, Heli Peltola, Timo Pukkala, Werner Rammer, Duncan Ray, Santiago Sabaté, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Rupert Seidl, Christian Temperli, Margarida Tomé, Rasoul Yousefpour, Niklaus E. Zimmermann and Marc Hanewinkel
Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?
Environmental Research Letters 12(3): 034027.DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5ef1

Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Andrea Hevia, J. Julio Camarero, Kerstin Treydte, Dave Frank, Alan Crivellaro, Marta Domínguez-Delmás, Lena Hellman, Ryszard J. Kaczka, Margot Kaye, Linar Akhmetzyanov, Muhammad Waseem Ashiq, Upasana Bhuyan, Olesia Bondarenko, Àlvaro Camisón, Sien Camps, Vicenta Constante García, Filipe Costa Vaz, Ionela G. Gavrila, Erik Gulbranson, Heli Huhtamaa, Karolina Janecka, Darren Jeffers, Matthias Jochner, Tomàs Koutecky, Mostafa Lamrani-Alaoui, Julie Lebreton-Anberrée, Marà Martín Seijo, Pawel Matulewski, Sandra Metslaid, Sergiu Miron, Robert Morrisey, Jorgen Opdebeeck, Svyatoslav Ovchinnikov, Richard Peters, Any M. Petritan, Margarita Popkova, Stepanka Rehorkova, Mária O. Rodríguez Ariza, Ángela Sánchez-Miranda, Marjolein Van der Linden, Astrid Vannoppen und Daniel Volarík
An intensive tree-ring experience: Connecting education and research during the 25th European Dendroecological Fieldweek (Asturias, Spain)
Dendrochronologia 42: 80–93. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2016.12.005

Emily F. Solly, Ika Djukic, Pavel A. Moiseev, Nelly I. Andreyashkina, Nadezhda M. Devi, Hans Göransson, Valeriy S. Mazepa, Stepan G. Shiyatov, Marina R. Trubina, Fritz H. Schweingruber, Martin Wilmking and Frank Hagedorn
Treeline advances and associated shifts in the ground vegetation alter fine root dynamics and mycelia production in the South and Polar Urals
Oecologia 183(2): 571–586. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-016-3785-0

Ernst van der Maaten, Andreas Hamann, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Aldo Bergsma, Geerten Hengeveld, Ron van Lammeren, Frits Mohren, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Renske Terhürne and Frank Sterck
Species distribution models predict temporal but not spatial variation in forest growth
Ecology and Evolution 7(8): 2585–2594.DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2696

Ernst van der Maaten, Annemarie Mehl, Martin Wilmking and Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen
Tapping the tree-ring archive for studying effects of resin extraction on the growth and climate sensitivity of Scots pine
Forest Ecosystems 4: 1–7. DOI: 10.1186/s40663-017-0096-9

Martin Wilmking, Allan Buras, Pascal Eusemann, Martin Schnittler, Mario Trouillier, David Würth, Jelena Lange, Marieke van der Maaten Theunissen and Glenn Patrick Juday
High frequency growth variability of White spruce clones does not differ from non-clonal trees at Alaskan treelines
Dendrochronologia 44: 187–192. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2017.05.005

Martin Wilmking, Tobias Scharnweber, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen and Ernst van der Maaten 
Reconciling the community with a concept – The Uniformitarian principle in the dendro-sciences
Dendrochronologia 44: 211–214. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2017.06.005

Allan Buras, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Ernst van der Maaten, Svenja Ahlgrimm, Philipp Hermann, Sonia Simard, Ingo Heinrich, Gerd Helle, Martin Unterseher, Martin Schnittler, Pascal Eusemann and Martin Wilmking
Tuning the Voices of a Choir: Detecting Ecological Gradients in Time-Series Populations
PLoS ONE 11(7): 1–21. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158346

Pascal Eusemann, Martin Schnittler, R. Henrik Nilsson, Ari Jumpponen, Mathilde B. Dahl, David G. Würth, Allan Buras, Martin Wilmking and Martin Unterseher
Habitat conditions and phenological tree traits overrule the influence of tree genotype in the needle mycobiome–Picea glauca system at an arctic treeline ecotone
New Phytologist 211(4): 1221–1231. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13988

Marina Gurskaya, Pavel Moiseev and Martin Wilmking
Does slope exposure affect frost ring formation in Picea obovata growing at treeline in the Southern Urals?
Silva Fennica 50(3): 1–19. DOI: 10.14214/sf.1560

Tobias Scharnweber, Andrea Hevia, Allan Buras, Ernst van der Maaten and Martin Wilmking
Common trends in elements? Within- and between-tree variations of wood-chemistry measured by X-ray fluorescence – a dendrochemical study
Science of the Total Environment 566–567: 1245–1253. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.182

Jonatan F. Siegmund, Tanja G. M. Sanders, Ingo Heinrich, Ernst van der Maaten, Sonia Simard, Gerhard Helle and Reik V. Donner
Meteorological Drivers of Extremes in Daily Stem Radius Variations of Beech, Oak, and Pine in Northeastern Germany: An Event Coincidence Analysis
Frontiers in Plant Science 7:1–14. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00733

Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marko Smiljanic, 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

Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Hanna Bümmerstede, Janette Iwanowski, Tobias Scharnweber, Martin Wilmking and Ernst van der Maaten
Drought sensitivity of beech on a shallow chalk soil in northeastern Germany – a comparative study
Forest Ecosystems 3(1): 1–10. DOI: 10.1186/s40663-016-0083-6

Andreas Bauwe, Gerald Jurasinski, Tobias Scharnweber, Christian Schröder and Bernd Lennartz
Impact of climate change on tree-ring growth of Scots pine, common beech and pedunculate oak in northeastern Germany
iForest 9: 1–11. DOI: 10.3832/ifor1421-008

Ilka Beil, Allan Buras, Martin Hallinger, Marko Smiljanic 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

Allan Buras and Martin Wilmking
Corrigendum to “Straight lines or eccentric eggs? A comparison of radial and spatial ring width measurements and its implications for climate transfer functions” [Dendrochronologia 32 (2014) 313–326]
Dendrochronologia 33: 78. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2015.02.001

Allan Buras and Martin Wilmking
Correcting the calculation of Gleichläufigkeit
Dendrochronologia 34: 29–30. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2015.03.003

Isla Myers-Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Pieter S.A. Beck, Martin Wilmking, Martin Hallinger, Daan Blok, Ken D. Tape, Shelly A. Rayback, Marc Macias-Fauria, Bruce C. Forbes, James D.M. Speed, Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe, Christian Rixen, Esther Lévesque, Niels Martin Schmidt, Claudia Baittinger, Andrew J. Trant, Luise Hermanutz, Laura Siegwart Collier, Melissa A. Dawes, Trevor Lantz, Stef Weijers, Rasmus Halfdan Jørgensen, Agata Buchwal, Allan Buras, Adam T. Naito, Virve Ravolainen, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Julia Wheeler, Sonja Wipf, Kevin Guay, David S. Hik and Mark Vellend
Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome
Nature climate change 5: 887–891. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2697

Isla H. Myers-Smith, Martin Hallinger, Daan Blok, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Shelly A. Rayback, Stef Weijers, Andrew Trant, Adam T. Naito, Ken D. Tape, Sonja Wipf, Christian Rixen, Melissa A. Dawes, Julia Wheeler, Agata Buchwal, Claudia Baittinger, Marc Macias-Fauria, Bruce C. Forbes, Esther Lévesque, Noémie Boulanger-Lapointe, Ilka Beil, Virve Ravolainen and Martin Wilmking
Methods for measuring arctic and alpine shrub growth: A review
Earth-Science Reviews 140: 1–13. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.10.004

Tobias Scharnweber, John Couwenberg, Ingo Heinrich and Martin Wilmking
New insights for the interpretation of ancient bog oak chronologies? Reactions of oak (Quercus robur L.) to a sudden peatland rewetting
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 417: 534–543. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.10.017

Peter Spathelf, Andreas Bolte and Ernst van der Maaten
Is Close-to-Nature Silviculture (CNS) an adequate concept to adapt forests to climate change?
Landbauforschung - Applied Agricultural and Forestry Research 65(3/4): 161–170. DOI: 10.3220/LBF1452526188000

Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Allan Buras, Tobias Scharnweber, Sonia Simard, Knut Kaiser, Sebastian Lorenz and Martin Wilmking
Can we use tree rings of black alder to reconstruct lake levels? A case study for the Mecklenburg Lake District, northeastern Germany
PLoS ONE 10(8): e0137054. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137054

Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Ernst van der Maaten and Olivier Bouriaud
pointRes: an R package to analyze pointer years and components of resilience
Dendrochronologia 35: 34–38. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2015.05.006

Li Yu, Lei Huang, Xuemei Shao, Fengjing Xiao, Martin Wilmking and Yongxiang Zhang
Warming-Induced Decline of Picea crassifolia Growth in the Qilian Mountains in Recent Decades
PLoS ONE 10(6): e0129959. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129959

Allan Buras and Martin Wilmking
Straight lines or eccentric eggs? A comparison of radial and spatial ring width measurements and its implications for climate transfer functions
Dendrochronologia 32(4): 313–326. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2014.07.002

Pascal Eusemann, P. Herzig, M. Kiess, Svenja Ahlgrimm, P. Herrmann, Martin Wilmking and Martin Schnittler
Three microsatellite multiplex PCR assays allowing high resolution genotyping of white spruce, Picea glauca
Silvae Genetica 63(5): 230–234.

Keyan Fang, Martin Wilmking, Nicole Davi, Feifei Zhou and Changzhi Liu
An ensemble weighting approach for dendroclimatology: drought reconstructions for the northeastern Tibetan Plateau
PLOS ONE 9(1). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086689

Juergen Kreyling, Constanze Buhk, Sabrina Backhaus, Martin Hallinger, Gerhard Huber, Lukas Huber, Anke Jentsch, Monika Konnert, Daniel Thiel, Martin Wilmking and Carl Beierkuhnlein
Local adaptations to frost in marginal and central populations of the dominant forest tree Fagus sylvatica L. as affected by temperature and extreme drought in common garden experiments
Ecology and Evolution 4(5): 594–605. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.971

Marcus Lindner, Joanne B. Fitzgerald, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Christopher Reyer, Sylvain Delzon, Ernst van der Maaten, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Petra Lasch, Jeannette Eggers, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Felicitas Suckow, Achilleas Psomas, Benjamin Poulter and Marc Hanewinkel
Climate change and European forests: what do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?
Journal of Environmental Management 146: 69–83. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.07.030

Tobias Schulz, Frank Krumm, Winfried Bücking, Georg Frank, Daniel Kraus, Markus Lier, Marko Lovric, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Yoan Paillet, Jari Parviainen, Giorgio Vacchiano and Kris Vandekerkhove
Comparison of integrative nature conservation in forest policy in Europe: a qualitative pilot study of institutional determinants
Biodiversity and Conservation 23(14): 3425–3450. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0817-0

Jeong-Wook Seo, Marko Smiljanic 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 Smiljanic, 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

Peter Spathelf, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Matteo Campioli and Dorota Dobrowolska
Climate change impacts in European forests: the expert views of local observers
Annals of Forest Science 71(2): 131–137. DOI: 10.1007/s13595-013-0280-1

Mateusz Zimowski, Hanns H. Leuschner, Holger Gärtner and Erwin Bergmeier
Age and diversity of Mediterranean dwarf shrublands: a dendrochronological approach along an altitudinal gradient on Crete
Journal of Vegetation Science 25(1): 122–134: DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12067

Allan Buras, Niels Thevs, Stefan Zerbe and Martin Wilmking
Productivity and carbon sequestration of Populus euphratica at the Amu River, Turkmenistan
Forestry 86(4): 429–439. DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpt014

Pascal Eusemann, Anne Petzold, Niels Thevs and Martin Schnittler
Growth patterns and genetic structure of Populus euphratica Oliv. (Salicaceae) forests in NW China - Implications for conservation and management
Forest Ecology and Management 297: 27–36. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.02.009

Ernst van der Maaten
Thinning prolongs growth duration of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) across a valley in southwestern Germany
Forest Ecology and Management 306: 135–141. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.030

Ernst van der Maaten, Olivier Bouriaud, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Helmut Mayer and Heinrich Spiecker
Meteorological forcing of day-to-day stem radius variations of beech is highly synchronic on opposing aspects of a valley
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 181: 85–93. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.07.009

Anne Petzold, Tanja Pfeiffer, Florian Jansen, Pascal Eusemann and Martin Schnittler
Sex ratios and clonal growth in dioecious Populus euphratica Oliv., Xinjiang Prov., Western China
Trees 27(3): 729–744. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-012-0828-y

Tobias Scharnweber, Michael Manthey and Martin Wilmking
Differential radial growth patterns between beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and oak (Quercus robur L.) on periodically waterlogged soils
Tree Physiology 33(4): 425–437. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpt020

Jeong-Wook Seo, D. Eckstein, A. Olbrich, R. Jalkanen, H. Salminen, U. Schmitt and J. Fromm
Climatic control of wood formation: illustrated for Scots pine at its northern distribution limit. Cellular Aspect of Wood Formation
In J. Fromm (Editor)
Cellular Aspects of Wood Formation
Band 20 from Plant Cell Monographs
pages: 159–185

Niels Thevs, Walter Wucherer and Allan Buras
Spatial distribution and carbon stock of the Saxaul vegetation of the winter-cold deserts of Middle Asia
Journal of Arid Environment 90: 29–35. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2012.10.013

Allan Buras, Martin Hallinger and Martin Wilmking
Can shrubs help to reconstruct historical glacier retreats?
Environmental Research Letters 7(4): 1–8. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044031

Allan Buras, Walter Wucherer, Stefan Zerbe, Zinoviy Noviskiy, Nashtay Muchitdinov, Batyrgeldy Shimshikov, Nikolai Zverev, Sebastian Schmidt, Martin Wilmking and Niels Thevs
Allometric variability of Haloxylon species in Central Asia
Forest Ecology and Management 274:1–9. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.02.023

Marina A. Gurskaya, Martin Hallinger, Dieter Eckstein and Martin Wilmking
Extreme cold summers in Western Siberia concluded from light rings in the wood of conifers
Phyton 52(1): 101–119. http://www.verlag-berger..../v/issn-0079-2047-72.html

Marina A. Gurskaya, Martin Hallinger, Jayendra Singh, Leonid Agafonov and Martin Wilmking
Temperature reconstruction in the Ob river valley based on ring width of three coniferous tree species
Dendrochronologia 30(4): 302–309. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2012.04.002

Bettina Ohse, Florian Jansen and Martin Wilmking
Do limiting factors at Alaskan treelines shift with climatic regimes?
Environmental Research Letters 7(1). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015505

Uwe Schmitt, Jeong-Wook Seo, Wolf-Ulrich Kriebitzsch, Silvio Schüler and Tanja Potsch
Holzbildungsdynamik von Rot-Buche (Fagus sylvatica L.) verschiedener Herkünfte
Landbauforschung/Journal of Applied Research in Agriculture and Forestry 62(4): 237–246.

Jeong-Wook Seo, Tarmo Aalto, Risto Jalkanen, Dieter Eckstein, Uwe Schmitt and Jörg Fromm
Bud break and intra-annual height growth dynamics of saplings and pole-stage trees of Scots pine: case study for a boreal forest in northern Finland
Baltic Forestry 18(1): 144–149.

Jeong-Wook Seo, Dieter Eckstein and Risto Jalkanen
Screening various variables of cellular anatomy in Scots pines in subarctic Finland for climatic signals
IAWA Journal 33(4): 417–429. DOI: 10.1163/22941932-90000104

Ken D. Tape, Martin Hallinger, Jeffrey M. Welker and Roger W. Ruess
Landscape heterogeneity of shrub expansion in Arctic Alaska
Ecosystems 15(5): 711–724, ISSN: 1432–9840. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9540-4

Niels Thevs, Allan Buras, Stefan Zerbe, Elfi Kühnel, Nurbay Abdusalih and Amangul Ovezberdyyeva
Structure and wood biomass of near-natural floodplain forests along the Central Asian rivers Tarim and Amu Darya
Forestry 85(2): 193–202. DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cpr056

Martin Wilmking, Martin Hallinger, R. Van Bogaert, T. Kyncl, F. Babst, W. Hahne, G. Juday, M. de Luis, K. Novak and C. Völlm
Continuously missing outer rings in woody plants at their distributional margins
Dendrochronologia 30(3): 213–222. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2011.10.001

Martin Wilmking, Tanja G.M. Sanders, Yongziang Zhang, Saskia Kenter, Steffen Holzkämper and Peter D. Crittenden
Effects of climate, site conditions and seed quality on recent treeline dynamics in NW Russia – Permafrost and lack of reproductive success hamper treeline advance?
Ecosystems 15(7): 1053–1064. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9565-8

Martin Hallinger and Martin Wilmking
No change without a cause – why climate change remains the most plausible reason for shrub growth dynamics in Scandinavia
New Phytologist 189(4): 902–908. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03624.x

Lars Kutzbach, Barnim Thees and Martin Wilmking
Identification of linear relationships from noisy data using errors-in-variables models – relevance for reconstruction of past climate from tree-ring (and other) proxy information
Climatic Change 105(1-2): 155–177. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9877-7

Frank Mirschel, Stefan Zerbe and Florian Jansen
Driving factors for natural tree rejuvenation in anthropogenic pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests of NE Germany
Forest Ecology and Management 261(3): 683–694. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.11.025

Isla H. Myers-Smith, Bruce C. Forbes, Martin Wilmking, Martin Hallinger, Trevor Lantz, Daan Blok, Ken D. Tape, Marc Macias-Fauria, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Esther Lévesque, Stéphane Boudreau, Pascale Ropars, Luise Hermanutz, Andrew Trant, Laura Siegwart Collier, Stef Weijers, Jelte Rozema, Shelly A. Rayback, Niels Martin Schmidt, Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Sonja Wipf, Christian Rixen, Cécile B. Ménard, Susanna Venn, Scott Goetz, Laia Andreu-Hayles, Sarah Elmendorf, Virve Ravolainen, Jeffrey Welker, Paul Grogan, Howard E. Epstein and David Hik
Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: Dynamics, impacts and research priorities
Environmental Research Letters 6(4). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045509

Tobias Scharnweber, Michael Manthey, Christian Criegee, Andreas Bauwe, Christian Schröder and Martin Wilmking
Drought matters – declining precipitation influences growth of Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus robur L. in north-eastern Germany
Forest Ecology and Management 262(6): 947–961. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.05.026

Jeong-Wook Seo, Dieter Eckstein, Risto Jalkanen and Uwe Schmitt
Climatic control of intra- and inter-annual wood-formation dynamics of Scots pine in northern Finland
Environmental and Experimental Botany 72(3): 422–431. DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2011.01.003

Jeong-Wook Seo and Won-Kyu Park
Examination of death years and causes by the analysis of growth decline in tree rings of Pinus densiflora from the Euilimji Lake Park in Jechen, Korea
Journal of Korean Environmental Research and Technology 14:1–10.

Yongxiang Zhang, Xuemei Shao and Martin Wilmking
Dynamic relationships between Picea crassifolia growth and climate at upper treelines in the Qilian Mts., Northeast Tibet Plateau, China
Dendrochronologia 29(4): 185–199. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2010.11.001

Yongxiang Zhang, Xuemei Shao, Yan Xu and Martin Wilmking
Process-based modeling analyses of Sabina przewalskii growth response to climate factors around the northeastern Qaidam Basin
Chinese Science Bulletin 56(14): 1518–1525. DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4456-5

Martin Hallinger, Michael Manthey and Martin Wilmking
Establishing a missing link: Warm summers and winter snow cover favour shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia
New Phytologist 186(4): 890–899. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03223.x

Frederik A. W. Noack, Michael Manthey, Jack. H. Ruitenbeek and Mohammad M. Mohadjer
Separate or Mixed Production of Timber, Livestock and Biodiversity in the Caspian Forest
Ecological Economics 70: 67–76. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.07.033

Yongxiang Zhang and Martin Wilmking
Divergent growth responses and increasing temperature limitation of Qinghai spruce growth along an elevation gradient at the northeast Tibet Plateau
Forest Ecology and Management 260(6): 1076–1082. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.06.034

U. Büntgen, R. Wilson, Martin Wilmking, T. Niedzwiedz and A. Bräuning
The ‘Divergence Problem’ in tree-ring research
TRACE 7: 212–21

Javad Eshaghi Rad, Michael Manthey and A. Mataji
Comparison of plant species diversity with different plant communities in deciduous forests
Int. J. Environ. Sci. Tech. 6(3): 389–394

Jayendra Singh, Ram R. Yadav and Martin Wilmking
A 694 year tree-ring based rainfall reconstruction from Himachal Pradesh, India
Climate Dynamics 33(7-8): 1149–115. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0528-5

Martin Wiehle, Pascal Eusemann, Niels Thevs and Martin Schnittler
Root suckering patterns in Populus euphratica (Euphrates poplar, Salicaceae)
Trees 23: 991–1001. DOI: 10.1007/s00468-009-0341-0

Michael Manthey, Christoph Leuschner and Werner Härdtle
Beech forests and climate change
BfN Skripten 233: 47–52.

Niels Thevs, Stefan Zerbe, Martin Schnittler, Nurbai Abdusalih and Michael Succow
Structure and flood-induced dynamics of Tugai forests at the Tarim River in Xinjiang, NW China
Forestry 81(1): 45–57.

Martin Wilmking and Isla Myers-Smith
Changing climate sensitivity of black spruce (Picea mariana Mill.) in a peatland-forest landscape in Interior Alaska
Dendrochronologia 25(3): 167–175. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2007.04.003

J. Westermann, Stefan Zerbe and D. Eckstein
Age structure and growth of degraded Populus euphratica floodplain forests in North-west China and perspectives for their recovery
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50(5): 536–546.

Yongxiang Zhang, Martin Wilmking and Xiaohua Gou
Changing relationships between tree growth and climate in Northwest China
Plant Ecology 201(1): 39–50. DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9478-y

R. Van Bogaert, D. Walker, G.J. Jia, O. Grau, Martin Hallinger, M. De Dapper, C. Jonasson and T.V. Callaghan
Recent Changes in Vegetation
Arctic Report Card 2007: 32–39.

Michael Manthey and E.O. Box
Realized climatic niches of deciduous trees: comparing western Eurasia and eastern North America
Journal of Biogeography 34: 1028–1040.

Michael Manthey, Christoph Leuschner and Werner Härdtle
Buchenwälder und Klimawandel
Natur und Landschaft 82(9/10): 441–445.

Tobias Scharnweber, Michael Rietschel and Michael Manthey
Degradation stages of the Hyrcanian forests in southern Azerbaijan
Archiv für Naturschutz und Landschaftsforschung 46(2): 133–156.

Stefan Zerbe
Neophyten in mitteleuropäischen Wäldern. Eine ökologische und naturschutzfachliche Zwischenbilanz
Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung 39(12): 361–368 

Stefan Zerbe, D. Kempa and X. Li
Managing biological diversity in forests by applying different development objectives
Archiv für Naturschutz und Landschaftsforschung 46(1): 3–26.

Stefan Zerbe and Daria Kreyer
Influence of different forest conversion strategies on pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stands – a case study on permanent plots in NE Germany
European Journal of Forest Research 126: 291–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-006-0148-0

Stefan Zerbe, Inga Schmidt and Jörg Betzin
Indicators for plant species richness in pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests of Germany
Biodiversity and Conservation 16: 3301–3316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-006-9111-0

Daria Kreyer and Stefan Zerbe
Short-lived tree species and their role as indicators for plant diversity in the restoration of natural forests
Restoration Ecology 14: 137–147.

I. Schmidt, Stefan Zerbe, J. Betzin and M. Weckesser
An approach to the identification of indicators for forest biodiversity – the Solling mountains (NW Germany) as an example
Restoration Ecology 14: 123–136.

Martin Wilmking, J. Harden and K. Tape
Effect of tree line advance on carbon storage in NW Alaska
Journal of Geophysical Research 111, G02023.

Martin Wilmking, Glenn P. Juday, Miranda Terwilliger and Valerie A. Barber
Modeling spatial variability of white spruce (Picea glauca) growth responses to Climate Change at and below treeline in Alaska - A case study from two National Parks
Erdkunde 60(2): 113–126. 

Stefan Zerbe and P. Wirth
Ecological range of invasive plant species in Central European pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) forests
Annals of Forest Science 63: 189–203.

E. O. Box and Michael Manthey
Oak and other Deciduous Forest Types of Eastern North America and Europe
Botanica Chronica 18(1): 51–6.

William W. Driscoll, Gregory C. Wiles, Rosanne D. D'Arrigo and Martin Wilmking
Divergent tree growth response to recent climatic warming, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alask
Geophysical Research Letters 32, L2070. DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024258

Hagen Gottschling, I. Amatov and G. Lazkov
Zur Ökologie und Flora der Walnuß-Wildobst-Wälder in Süd-Kirgisistan
Archiv für Naturschutz und Landschaftsforschung 44(1): 85–130.

Glenn P. Juday, Valerie Barber, Paul Duffy, Hans Linderholm, Scott Rupp, Steve Sparrow, Eugene Vaganov, John Yarie, Edward Berg, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Olafur Eggertsson, V.V. Furyaev, Edward H. Hogg, Satu Huttunen, Gordon Jacoby, V.Ya. Kaplunov, Seppo Kellomaki, A.V. Kirdyanov, Carol E. Lewis, Sune Linder, M.M. Naurzbaev, F.I. Pleshikov, Ulf T. Runesson, Yu.V. Savva, O.V. Sidorova, V.D. Stakanov, N.M. Tchebakova, E.N. Valendik, E.F. Vedrova and Martin Wilmking
Forests, Land Management, and Agriculture
In Arctic Council (Editor)
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, ACIA Scientific Repor, chapter 14, pages 781–862.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Niels Thevs, Ümüt Halik, Martin Schnittler, Michael Succow and Stefan Zerbe
Tugay-Wälder im Tarim-Becken (Xinjiang, NW-China)' Gefährdung sowie Schutz- und Revitalisierungsbestrebungen
Forst und Holz 60(2): 63–66.

Martin Wilmking, R. D'Arrigo, G.C. Jacoby and G.P. Juday
Increased temperature sensitivity and divergent growth trends in circumpolar boreal forests
Geophysical Research Letters 32, L15715. DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023331

Martin Wilmking and Glenn P. Juday
Longitudinal variation of radial growth at Alaska's northern treeline - recent changes and possible scenarios for the 21st century
Global and Planetary Change 47(2-4): 282–30. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.10.017

Valerie A. Barber, Glenn P. Juday, Bruce P. Finney and Martin Wilmking
Reconstruction of Summer Temperatures in Interior Alaska from Tree-Ring Proxies: Evidence for Changing Synoptic Climate Regimes
Climatic Change 63: 91–120.

Martin Wilmking and Jens Ibendorf
An Early Tree-Line Experiment by a Wilderness Advocate: Bob Marshall’s Legacy in the Brooks Range, Alaska
Artic 57(1): 106–113.

Martin Wilmking, Glenn P. Juday, Valerie A. Barber and Harold S. J. Zald
Recent climate warming forces contrasting growth responses of white spruce at treeline in Alaska through temperature thresholds
Global Change Biology 10(10): 1724–1736. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00826.x

Valerie A. Barber, Glenn P. Juday, E. Berg and Martin Wilmking
Assessment of Recent and Possible Future Forest Responses To Climate in Boreal Alaska (extended abstract)
In S. Kankaanpaeae, L. Mueller-Wille, P. Susiluoto and M. L. Sutinen (Editor)
Northern Timberline Forests: Environmental and Socio-economic Issues and Concerns
Band 862 from Research Papers
Publisher: The Finnish Forest Research Institute.