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A 300-year tree-ring δ¹⁸O-based precipitation reconstruction for the South American Altiplano highlights decadal hydroclimate teleconnections

Oxygen isotopes tree rings from polylepis tarapacana trees across the South American Altiplano provide a terrestrial precipitation record that is sensitive to decadal hydroclimate teleconnections and correlates well with other proxy records.

Milagros Rodriguez-Caton
Mariano S. Morales
Laia Andreu-Hayles
ResearchOpen Access21 May 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-13
Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years

The atmosphere has dried across most regions of Europe in recent decades, a trend that can be attributed primarily to human impacts, according to tree ring records spanning 400 years and Earth system model simulations.

Kerstin Treydte
Laibao Liu
Neil J. Loader
Research27 Dec 2023
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 58-65
Tree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale

Historical and future trends in net primary productivity (NPP) and its sensitivity to global change are largely unknown because of the lack of long-term, high-resolution data. Here the authors show that tree-ring isotopes can be used for inferring interannual variability and long-term changes in NPP.

Mathieu Levesque
Laia Andreu-Hayles
Neil Pederson
ResearchOpen Access14 Feb 2019
Nature Communications

Volume: 10, P: 1-10
Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

It is unclear whether plant trait relationships found at the global scale extend to climatic extremes. Here the authors analyse six major aboveground traits to show that known plant trait relationships extend to the tundra biomes and exhibit the same two dimensions of variation detected at the global scale.

H. J. D. Thomas
A. D. Bjorkman
F. T. de Vries
ResearchOpen Access12 Mar 2020
Nature Communications

Volume: 11, P: 1-12
Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

Considering the combined effects of CO₂ fertilization and climate change drivers on plant physiology leads to a modest increase in simulated European forest transpiration in spite of the effects of CO₂-induced stomatal closure.

D. C. Frank
B. Poulter
M. Weigl
Research11 May 2015
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 5, P: 579-583
Approaching a thermal tipping point in the Eurasian boreal forest at its southern margin

Siberian larch, a foundation species of the Eurasian boreal forest ecosystem, could experience lethally high temperatures 2–3 days a year in the south of its reach by 2050, according to a trait-based vulnerability assessment combining field ecophysiological data and CMIP6 Earth system models.

Mukund Palat Rao
Nicole K. Davi
Kevin L. Griffin
ResearchOpen Access10 Jul 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-10

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Tree-ring isotopes capture interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

Approaching a thermal tipping point in the Eurasian boreal forest at its southern margin

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A 300-year tree-ring δ¹⁸O-based precipitation reconstruction for the South American Altiplano highlights decadal hydroclimate teleconnections