Tree-ring time series provide long-term, annually resolved information on the growth of individual trees. However, public tree-ring archives contain a considerable portion of data collected from trees that have been selected with specific research questions in mind (e.g., for climate reconstruction).  This makes these archives a biased representation of the sensitivity of forest ecosystems to ongoing climate variation (e.g. temperature, precipitation), including non-stationarity (i.e....

Montane forests of Central Europe are experiencing faster changes in climate than the average trends. It is still unclear how these natural forests, and especially saplings, have responded to recent modifications in growth conditions. We took advantage of the REMOTE forests network to look at the changes in juvenile growth rates of Norway spruce and European beech, two economically important tree species in Europe. This network includes ring-widths series of more than 19,000 spruces and 14...

Free, in person and onlineThe stable isotopic compositions of carbon and oxygen (d13C and d18O) measured in tree rings are valuable proxies for reconstructing paleoclimate and are increasingly used as paleophysiological proxies. Applying these proxies in ecophysiology and paleoclimate can be challenging as they rely on complex process-based models and poorly constrained input data. In recent years, h...