Mixed forests play a key role in terms of stability, production potential and adaptation to
climate change. Norway spruce [PA, Picea abies (L.) Karst] and European beech (FS, Fagus …

The frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme droughts, with devastating impacts on tree
growth and survival, have increased with climate change over the past decades. Assessing …

Summary 1 Many studies in northern Europe, North and South America, describe regional
trends of population densification at altitudinal and polar tree lines during the 20th century …

Tree mortality as a crucial element of natural forest dynamics is still a poorly understood
process. Abrupt growth decreases are known to occur several years or decades before …

Tree radial growth in mountainous areas is subject to complex environmental influences,
and the response of radial growth to climate varies with elevation. To detect spatial variation …

Using experimental atmospheric CO2 enrichment, we tested for tree growth stimulation at
the high‐elevation treeline, where there is overwhelming evidence that low temperature …

Within the alpine treeline ecotone tree growth is increasingly restricted by extreme climate
conditions. Although intra-annual stem growth recorded by dendrometers can be linked to …

Tree rings form the backbone of high-resolution palaeoclimatology and represent one of the
most frequently used proxy to reconstruct climate variability of the Common Era. In the …

Numerous proxy climate reconstructions have been developed for Europe, but there are still
regions with limited data of this kind. One region is the Balkan Peninsula, which is …

Abstract In the European Alps, air temperature has increased almost twice as much as the
global average over the last century and, as a corollary, snow cover duration has decreased …