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1200 years of regular outbreaks in alpine insects

scientific article published in March 2007

2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility

scientific article

A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures

article

A Review of 2000 Years of Paleoclimatic Evidence in the Mediterranean

article

A global perspective on the climate‐driven growth synchrony of neighbouring trees

scientific article published on 20 March 2020

A matter of divergence: Tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree ring data

scholarly article

A multi-proxy perspective on millennium-long climate variability in the Southern Pyrenees

A new tree-ring-based summer temperature reconstruction over the last three centuries for east-central Europe

scientific article published in 2014

A recent growth increase of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at its Mediterranean distribution limit contradicts drought stress

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

A risk assessment of Europe's black truffle sector under predicted climate change

scientific article published on 17 November 2018

A technical perspective in modern tree-ring research--how to overcome dendroecological and wood anatomical challenges

scientific article

A tree ring-based hydroclimate reconstruction for eastern Europe reveals large-scale teleconnection patterns

scientific article published on 31 March 2022

A tree-ring perspective on temporal changes in the frequency and intensity of hydroclimatic extremes in the territory of the Czech Republic since 761 AD

scholarly article by P. Dobrovolný et al published 23 October 2015 in Climate of the Past

All-clear for gourmets: truffles not radioactive

scientific article published in 2016

Altitudinal upwards shifts in fungal fruiting in the Alps

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

An annual-resolution stable isotope record from Swiss subfossil pine trees growing in the late Glacial

scholarly article

An empirical perspective for understanding climate change impacts in Switzerland

article

Arctic driftwood reveals unexpectedly rich fungal diversity

scientific article published in 2016

Assessing non-linearity in European temperature-sensitive tree-ring data

scientific article published in 2020

Assessing the spatial signature of European climate reconstructions

article

Associations between climate and earlywood and latewood width in boreal and Mediterranean Scots pine forests

scientific article published on 05 September 2020

Atlantic and Mediterranean synoptic drivers of central Spanish juniper growth

article

Author Correction: Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Author Correction: Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Black truffle winter production depends on Mediterranean summer precipitation

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Breaking new ground at the interface of dendroecology and mycology

scientific article

Calcium availability affects the intrinsic water-use efficiency of temperate forest trees

scientific article published in 2023

Causes and consequences of past and projected Scandinavian summer temperatures, 500-2100 AD.

scientific article

Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence

Climate Variability-Observations, Reconstructions, and Model Simulations for the Atlantic-European and Alpine Region from 1500-2100 AD

article

Climate and environmental context of the Mongol invasion of Syria and defeat at ‘Ayn Jālūt (1258–1260 CE)

scientific article published in 2021

Climate sensitivity and parameter coherency in annually resolved δ13C and δ18O from Pinus uncinata tree-ring data in the Spanish Pyrenees

Climate sensitivity of Mediterranean pine growth reveals distinct east-west dipole

Climate sensitivity of a millennium-long pine chronology from Albania

Climate signal age effects in boreal tree-rings: Lessons to be learned for paleoclimatic reconstructions

scientific article published in 2016

Climate warming induced synchronous growth decline in Norway spruce populations across biogeographical gradients since 2000

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Climate-driven introduction of the Black Death and successive plague reintroductions into Europe

scientific article

Climate-human interactions contributed to historical forest recruitment dynamics in Mediterranean subalpine ecosystems

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Climate-induced long-term changes in the phenology of Mediterranean fungi

scientific article published in 2022

Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE.

scientific article

Climatic warming disrupts recurrent Alpine insect outbreaks

scientific article

Commentary to Wetter et al. (2014): Limited tree-ring evidence for a 1540 European ‘Megadrought’

Common Era treeline fluctuations and their implications for climate reconstructions

scholarly article

Complex climate controls on 20th century oak growth in Central-West Germany

scientific article published on 5 December 2008

Congruency in fungal phenology patterns across dataset sources and scales

scientific article published in 2018

Continental-scale macrofungal assemblage patterns correlate with climate, soil carbon and nitrogen deposition

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

scientific article (publication date: 21 April 2013)

Contrasting effects of environmental change on the radial growth of co-occurring beech and fir trees across Europe

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

article by Ulf Büntgen et al published 8 February 2016 in Nature Geoscience

Corrigendum to “Towards a dendrochronologically refined date of the Laacher See eruption around 13,000 years ago” [Quat. Sci. Rev. 229 (2020) 106128]

scientific article published in March 2020

Decadally Resolved Lateglacial Radiocarbon Evidence from New Zealand Kauri

article

Declining pine growth in Central Spain coincides with increasing diurnal temperature range since the 1970s

article

Dendroarchaeological evidence of early medieval water mill technology

Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Detecting instabilities in tree-ring proxy calibration

scientific article published in 2010

Detection and evaluation of an early divergence problem in northern Fennoscandian tree-ring data

scientific article published in 2013

Different effects of alpine woody plant expansion on domestic and wild ungulates

article

Differing pre-industrial cooling trends between tree rings and lower-resolution temperature proxies

scientific article published in 2020

Digitizing historical plague

scientific article published on 23 August 2012

Disentangling the effects of spatial proximity and genetic similarity on individual growth performances in Norway spruce natural populations

article published in 2018

Disentangling the effects of spatial proximity and genetic similarity on individual growth performances in Norway spruce natural populations

Diverse climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width and density

scientific article published in 2009

Drought as a trigger of the rapid rise of professional skateboarding in 1970s Southern California

scientific article published in December 2023

Drought-induced changes in the phenology, productivity and diversity of Spanish fungi

scientific article published in 2015

Drought-induced decline in Mediterranean truffle harvest

Drought-induced weakening of growth–temperature associations in high-elevation Iberian pines

scientific article

Early Neolithic water wells reveal the world's oldest wood architecture

scientific article published in 2012

Eastern Mediterranean summer temperatures since 730 CE from Mt. Smolikas tree-ring densities

scientific article published in 2019

Ecological and conceptual consequences of Arctic pollution

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Ecological and societal effects of Central Asian streamflow variation over the past eight centuries

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological indicators of Tuber aestivum habitats in temperate European beech forests

article by Barbara Moser et al published October 2017 in Fungal Ecology

Effects of post-glacial phylogeny and genetic diversity on the growth variability and climate sensitivity of European silver fir

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate.

scientific article

Environmental change without climate change?

scientific article published in November 2010

Estimating 750 years of temperature variations and uncertainties in the Pyrenees by tree-ring reconstructions and climate simulations

article

European mushroom assemblages are darker in cold climates

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

European springtime temperature synchronises ibex horn growth across the eastern Swiss Alps

scientific article

European summer temperatures since Roman times

article

European tree-ring data and the Medieval Climate Anomaly

scientific article published in 2011

European warm-season temperature and hydroclimate since 850 CE

Explaining European fungal fruiting phenology with climate variability

scientific article published on 08 May 2018

Extending the climatological concept of <i>‘</i>Detection and Attribution’ to global change ecology in the Anthropocene

scientific article published in 2020

Extraterrestrial confirmation of tree-ring dating

Facilitating tree-ring dating of historic conifer timbers using Blue Intensity

scholarly article by Rob Wilson et al published February 2017 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Filling the Eastern European gap in millennium-long temperature reconstructions

scientific article

Fine-scale genetic structure of natural Tuber aestivum sites in southern Germany

scientific article

Fine-scale spatiotemporal dynamics of fungal fruiting: prevalence, amplitude, range and continuity

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence

scientific article published in 2010

Five centuries of Southern Moravian drought variations revealed from living and historic tree rings

scientific article published in 2010

Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years

scientific article

Functional Relationships of Wood Anatomical Traits in Norway Spruce

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Global tree-ring response and inferred climate variation following the mid-thirteenth century Samalas eruption

scientific article published in 2022

Growth responses to climate in a multi-species tree-ring network in the Western Carpathian Tatra Mountains, Poland and Slovakia

scientific article published in May 2007

Habitat and Harvesting Practices Influence Horn Growth of Male Ibex

scientific article published in 2020

High-Resolution Temperature Variability Reconstructed from Black Pine Tree Ring Densities in Southern Spain

scientific article published in 2020

Higher groundwater levels in western Europe characterize warm periods in the Common Era

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Horn growth variation and hunting selection of the Alpine ibex

scientific article

Illuminating the mysterious world of truffles

scientific article published in 2012

Improved recovery of ancient DNA from subfossil wood - application to the world's oldest Late Glacial pine forest

scientific article published on 15 December 2017

In praise of archives (and an open mind)

scholarly article

Individual reproductive success in Norway spruce natural populations depends on growth rate, age and sensitivity to temperature

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Interplay of environmental and socio-political factors in the downfall of the Eastern Türk Empire in 630 CE

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Introducing Mushroom Fruiting Patterns from the Swiss National Poisons Information Centre

scientific article

Introducing wood anatomical and dendrochronological aspects of herbaceous plants: applications of the Xylem Database to vegetation science

scientific article

Investigation of age trends in tree-ring stable carbon and oxygen isotopes from northern Fennoscandia over the past millennium

scientific article published in 2022

Kauri Tree‐Ring Stable Isotopes Reveal a Centennial Climate Downturn Following the Antarctic Cold Reversal in New Zealand

scientific article

Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings

Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II, spatially resolved reconstructions

article

Last millennium northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: The long term context

article

Lateglacial environmental variability from Swiss tree rings

scholarly article

Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

article

Linking European building activity with plague history

Linking dendroecology and association genetics in natural populations: Stress responses archived in tree rings associate with SNP genotypes in silver fir (Abies alba Mill.).

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

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Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years

scientific article published in 2021

Long-term drought severity variations in Morocco

scientific article published on 04 September 2007

Long-term ecological consequences of forest fires in the continuous permafrost zone of Siberia

scientific article published in 2020

Long-term effects of environmental change and species diversity on tree radial growth in a mixed European forest

scientific article published in 2019

Long-term irrigation effects on Spanish holm oak growth and its black truffle symbiont

article

Long-term summer temperature variations in the Pyrenees from detrended stable carbon isotopes

Low-frequency noise inδ13C andδ18O tree ring data: A case study ofPinus uncinatain the Spanish Pyrenees

article

May-July precipitation reconstruction from oak tree-rings for Bohemia (Czech Republic) since AD 1040

scientific article published in 2017

Millennium-long summer temperature variations in the European Alps as reconstructed from tree rings

Mitigation efforts will not fully alleviate the increase in water scarcity occurrence probability in wheat-producing areas

scientific article published on 25 September 2019

Mixed effects of climate variation on the scots pine forests: Age and species mixture matter

scientific article published in 2018

Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: palaeoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium

scientific article

Modelling cosmic radiation events in the tree-ring radiocarbon record

scientific article published in 2022

Modified climate with long term memory in tree ring proxies

Multi-archive summer temperature reconstruction for the European Alps, AD 1053–1996

article

Multi-proxy dating of Iceland’s major pre-settlement Katla eruption to 822–823 CE

scholarly article by Ulf Büntgen et al published 29 June 2017 in Geology

Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE

scholarly article

Mushroom productivity trends in relation to tree growth and climate across different European forest biomes

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

New Evidence of Thermally Constrained Plant Cell Wall Lignification

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

New Insights into the Complex Relationship between Weight and Maturity of Burgundy Truffles (Tuber aestivum).

scientific article

New Tree-Ring Evidence from the Pyrenees Reveals Western Mediterranean Climate Variability since Medieval Times

scientific article published in July 2017

New evidence for the symbiosis between Tuber aestivum and Picea abies

scientific article

New tree-ring evidence for the Late Glacial period from the northern pre-Alps in eastern Switzerland

scholarly article

No growth stimulation of Canada's boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO2 fertilization

scientific article

No radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl disaster in Hungarian white truffles (Tuber magnatum)

scientific article published on 29 June 2019

Northern Hemisphere temperature anomalies during the 1450s period of ambiguous volcanic forcing

scientific article published on 6 May 2017

Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

scientific article published on 6 November 2015

Open-source data reveal how collections-based fungal diversity is sensitive to global change

scientific article published in 2019

Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

scientific article published in 2012

Past millennium hydroclimate variability from Corsican pine tree‐ring chronologies

scientific article published in 2021

Phenological shifts compensate warming-induced drought stress in southern Siberian Scots pines

scientific article published on 29 September 2021

Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context

scientific article published in 2014

Pollution control enhanced spruce growth in the "Black Triangle" near the Czech-Polish border

scientific article

Potential and limitation of combining terrestrial and marine growth records from Iceland

scientific article published in August 2017

Potential and limitations of Burgundy truffle cultivation

scientific article published on 12 May 2013

Potential and limitations of local tree ring records in estimating a priori the growth performance of short-rotation coppice plantations

article

Precise date for the Laacher See eruption synchronizes the Younger Dryas

scholarly article

Predicted climate change will increase the truffle cultivation potential in central Europe

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Predicted sea-ice loss will terminate Iceland's driftwood supply by 2060 CE

scientific article published in 2022

Priority questions in multidisciplinary drought research

scholarly article by M Trnka et al published 28 August 2018 in Climate Research

Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

scientific article

Publisher Correction: Reply to 'Climate of doubt: a re-evaluation of Büntgen and Di Cosmo's environmental hypothesis for the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary, 1242 CE'.

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Pursuing autumnal climate change ecology

scientific article published in 2018

Radiocarbon offsets and old world chronology as relevant to Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia and Thera (Santorini)

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Ranking of tree-ring based hydroclimate reconstructions of the past millennium

scientific article published in 2020

Ranking of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium

scholarly article

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

scientific article

Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean

scholarly article

Recognising bias in Common Era temperature reconstructions

scientific article published in August 2022

Regional Patterns of Late Medieval and Early Modern European Building Activity Revealed by Felling Dates

scientific article

Reply to 'Climate of doubt: a re-evaluation of Büntgen and Di Cosmo's environmental hypothesis for the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary, 1242 CE'.

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Reply to 'Limited Late Antique cooling'

scientific article published in April 2017

Reply to Gange et al.: Climate-driven changes in the fungal fruiting season in the United Kingdom

scientific article published in January 2013

Reply to Weiss: Tree-ring stable oxygen isotopes suggest an increase in Asian monsoon rainfall at 4.2 ka BP

scientific article published in 2022

Reply to: Possible magmatic CO2 influence on the Laacher See eruption date

scientific article published on 5 July 2023

Return of the moth: rethinking the effect of climate on insect outbreaks

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Scale-dependent climatic drivers of human epidemics in ancient China

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Scientific Merits and Analytical Challenges of Tree‐Ring Densitometry

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Scrutinizing tree‐ring parameters for Holocene climate reconstructions

scientific article published in 2022

Seasonality matters—The effects of past and projected seasonal climate change on the growth of native and exotic conifer species in Central Europe

Setting the tree-ring record straight

scientific article published in 2020

Siberian tree-ring and stable isotope proxies as indicators of temperature and moisture changes after major stratospheric volcanic eruptions

scientific article published in 2019

Signals and memory in tree-ring width and density data

scientific article published in October 2015

Silver fir and Douglas fir are more tolerant to extreme droughts than Norway spruce in south-western Germany

scientific article

Site-specific climatic signals in stable isotope records from Swedish pine forests

Smoking guns and volcanic ash: the importance of sparse tephras in Greenland ice cores

scientific article

Spatiotemporal variability of stone pine ( Pinus pinea L.) growth response to climate across the Iberian Peninsula

scientific article published in 2016

Stable body size of Alpine ungulates

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Subfossil trees suggest enhanced Mediterranean hydroclimate variability at the onset of the Younger Dryas

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Sudden disappearance of yew (Taxus baccata) woodlands from eastern England coincides with a possible climate event around 4.2 ka ago

scientific article published in 2024

Summer Temperature Variations in the European Alps, a.d. 755–2004

scholarly article

Summer temperature dependency of larch budmoth outbreaks revealed by Alpine tree-ring isotope chronologies

scientific article published on 14 February 2009

Swiss tree rings reveal warm and wet summers during medieval times

scientific article published in 2014

Temperature Covariance in Tree Ring Reconstructions and Model Simulations Over the Past Millennium

scholarly article

Temperature-induced recruitment pulses of Arctic dwarf shrub communities

scientific article published in 2015

Temperaturvariationen und Jahrringe | Temperature variation and tree rings

scientific article published in 2004

Testing the hypothesis of post-volcanic missing rings in temperature sensitive dendrochronological data

scientific article

The 1430s: a cold period of extraordinary internal climate variability during the early Spörer Minimum with social and economic impacts in north-western and central Europe

The Eldgjá eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)

scientific article

The future of paleoclimate

scientific article published in 2021

The importance of "year zero" in interdisciplinary studies of climate and history

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

scientific article published in 2021

The role of drought during the Hunnic incursions into central-east Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2022

The temperature sensitivity along elevational gradients is more stable in maximum latewood density than tree-ring width

scientific article published in 2022

The wood of Merovingian weaponry

scientific article published in January 2016

Three centuries of insect outbreaks across the European Alps

scientific article published on June 2009

Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years.

scientific article

Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps

scientific article

Towards a dendrochronologically refined date of the Laacher See eruption around 13,000 years ago

scientific article

Tracing the origin of Arctic driftwood

scientific article published in 2013

Trait-dependent distributional shifts in fruiting of common British fungi

scientific article published in 2017

Tree ring-based reconstruction of the long-term influence of wildfires on permafrost active layer dynamics in Central Siberia

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Tree rings and volcanic cooling

article

Tree rings reveal dry conditions during Charlemagne’s Fossa Carolina construction in 793 CE

scientific article published in 2020

Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Tree rings reveal hydroclimatic fingerprints of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in 2019

Tree rings reveal signs of Europe's sustainable forest management long before the first historical evidence

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Tree-Ring Amplification of the Early Nineteenth-Century Summer Cooling in Central Europea

article

Tree-ring evidence for the historical absence of cyclic larch budmoth outbreaks in the Tatra Mountains

scientific article published in 2015

Tree-ring indicators of German summer drought over the last millennium

scientific article published in 2010

Tree-ring proxy based temperature reconstructions and climate model simulations: cross-comparison at the Pyrenees

Tree-ring-based reconstruction of larch budmoth outbreaks in the Central Italian Alps since 1774 CE

scientific article published in 2019

Truffles and climate change

scholarly article by Ulf Büntgen et al published April 2011 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Uniform climate sensitivity in tree-ring stable isotopes across species and sites in a mid-latitude temperate forest

scientific article

Uniform growth trends among central Asian low- and high-elevation juniper tree sites

article

Unraveling environmental drivers of a recent increase in Swiss fungi fruiting

scientific article

Updating historical tree-ring records for climate reconstruction

scientific article published in 2010

Variability and extremes of northern Scandinavian summer temperatures over the past two millennia

article

Warmer early instrumental measurements versus colder reconstructed temperatures: shooting at a moving target

article

Warming-induced shift in European mushroom fruiting phenology

scientific article

Warming-induced tipping points of Arctic and alpine shrub recruitment

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Warming-induced upward migration of the alpine treeline in the Changbai Mountains, northeast China.

scientific article

Weakening of annual temperature cycle over the Tibetan Plateau since the 1870s

scientific article

Xylem Anatomical Trait Variability Provides Insight on the Climate-Growth Relationship of Betula nana in Western Greenland

scholarly article by Sigrid S. Nielsen et al published August 2017 in Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

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