Future increases in drought severity and frequency are predicted to have substantial impacts
on plant function and survival. However, there is considerable uncertainty concerning what …

The application of dendrochronology for understanding climatic variations has been of great
interest to climatologists, ecologists, geographers, archeologists, among other sciences …

Mixed lowland forests reserved for natural succession are sparse in the Czech Republic.
However, their development provides essential insights into the natural processes of these …

In temperate forests, precipitation-productivity relationships have usually been considered
linear and symmetric, ie under conditions of nominal precipitation variability, trees are able …

Climate warming at high latitudes has contributed to the growing interest in shrub tree-ring
analysis. Shrub architecture presents new challenges for dendrochronology, such as the …

Context As a widespread species, sessile oak (Quercus petraea) populations occupy a wide
range of ecological conditions, with large gradients of soil water availability. Drought …

Height to crown base (HCB) is an important tree-level characteristic used to determine
crown size and serves as an important input variable for forest growth and yield models …

Forest regrowth following farmland (agriculture and pasture) abandonment has been
positively associated with a number of processes including the regulation of hydrological …

The allocation of wood density in trees depends on many factors, but mainly on the tree
species. A great number of studies have analysed wood density in dominant or codominant …

Abstract Serbian spruce (Picea omorika [Pančić] Purk.) is a Balkan endemic coniferous
species, the expansion of which is restricted by limited knowledge. This literature review …