Combined dendrochronology and accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS ¹⁴C) dating analyses were used in order to date an old living tree named Italus, growing in the Pollino massif in Southern Italy. Wiggle match AMS ¹⁴C dating analysis was performed on a 320-yr-long floating chronology...

Climatically controlled allocation to reproduction is a key mechanism by which climate influences tree growth and may explain lagged correlations between climate and growth. We used continent-wide datasets of tree-ring chronologies and annual reproductive effort in Fagus sylvatica from 1901 to 2015 ...

The contribution of tree-ring analysis to other fields of scientific inquiry with overlapping interests, such as forestry and plant population biology, is often hampered by the different parameters and methods that are used for measuring growth. Here I present relatively simple graphical,...

Environmental processes, including climatic impacts in cold regions, are typically acting at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Hierarchical models are a flexible statistical tool that allows for decomposing spatiotemporal processes in simpler components connected by conditional probabilistic...

A network of 24 beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) tree-ring chronologies has been developed for the Italian peninsula. Principal component and cluster analyses were used to identify geographical and altitudinal patterns of tree growth. Correlations and response functions were then applied to the main...

The network of managed and old-growth beech forests in Italy is explored. It used a network tree-ring site chronologies including six different species (Fagus sylvatica, Abies alba, Quercus cerris, Q. frainetto, Pinus halepensis and P. pinea) sampled at various elevations throughout Italy to...

Future droughts are expected to become more severe and frequent under future climate change scenarios, likely causing widespread tree mortality in the western USA. Coping with an uncertain future requires an understanding of long-term ecosystem responses in areas where prolonged drought is...

To understand the effect of climate on tree-ring features, such as width or density, tree-ring data have to be calibrated against instrumental records. The high degree of multicollinearity among monthly time series of climate data violates the assumption of independent predictor variables in...

Dendroclimatic reconstructions, which are a well-known tool for extending records of climatic variability, have recently been expanded by using wood anatomical parameters. However, the relationships between wood cellular structures and large-scale climatic patterns, such as El Niño-Southern...

This note describes the wood growth of two Turkey oak stands belonging to stored coppices with standards in Central Italy. In Mediterranean hilly stored coppices, even on fertile volcanic soils, stand productivity is controlled by climate variability, above all water availability. The climatic...