Accelerated global warming in the late 20th century led to frequent forest-decline events in the Northern Hemisphere and increased the complexity of the relationships between tree growth and climate factors. However, few studies have explored the heterogeneity of responses of tree growth to climate ...

A changing climate and global warming have adversely affected Pakistan's moist and dry temperate vegetation. Abies pindrow (fir) (Royle ex D. Don) Royle and Picea smithiana (spruce) (Wall.) Boiss are the two major representative species of the moist and dry temperate forests in Northern Pakistan....

Aims: We aim to compare the climatic representativeness of blue intensity (BI) and ring width index (RWI) in Picea jezoensis, and to provide guidance for the further application of BI parameters in dendrochronology. Methods: A total of 120 tree-ring cores were extracted from P. jezoensis trees in...

Precipitation is one of the most important climate factors controlling tree growth, yet it is not fully understood how changes in precipitation affect the relationship between growth and temperature. On the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, nine tree-ring chronologies of Picea crassifolia...

The rate of global warming has led to persistent drought. It is considered to be the preliminary factor affecting socioeconomic development under the background of the dynamic forecasting of the water supply and forest ecosystems in West Asia. However, long-term climate records in the semiarid...

Xylem anatomy can provide valuable information about tree allometry and ecophysiological performance. It has unique advantages in the study of global climate change and forest adaptation compared to traditional ring-width or density proxy parameters. Developing appropriate detrended sequences of...

Objective: This paper aims to figure out the response differences of the radial growth of Larix gmelinii under different precipitation gradients in northern Daxing'an Mountains of northeastern China to climate, especially to recent warming. Method: In this paper, three sampling sites, including...

The unstable sensitivity of growth-climate relationships greatly restricts tree-ring-based paleoclimate reconstructions, especially in areas with frequent "divergence" problems, such as the monsoonal zone of Northeast China. Here, we test the proposition that the tree species mixing method can...

Rapid warming and increasing drought intensity are exposing forest ecosystems to increasing stress, challenging silvicultural decision-making. Tree growth-climate relationships may provide valuable information on tree species' adaptive potentials. However, it is not clear how subtropical trees will ...

Atmospheric circulations influence local and regional weather conditions and, thus, tree growth. To identify summer weather types relevant for tree growth, and their associated synoptic-scale circulation patterns, an atmospheric circulation tree ring index (ACTI) dataset, derived from 414 tree-ring ...