ArticleScientific reports2019
Large apparent growth increases in boreal forests inferred from tree-rings are an artefact of sampling biases.
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- Variation in Tree Growth Increases With Global Warming.Ecology letters · 2026Article
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- Long-Term Temporal Divergence in Post-Drought Resilience Decline Between Deciduous and Evergreen Tree Species.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Reconstructing spruce budworm outbreak severity: a comparison of paleoecological and tree-ring signals.PloS one · 2025Article
- Russian forests show strong potential for young forest growth.Communications earth & environment · 2025Article
- A Review of Dendrochronology and Remote Sensing Integration for Forest Growth and Disturbance Monitoring.Current forestry reports · 2025Review
- Planting long-lived trees in a warming climate: Theory shows the importance of stage-dependent climatic tolerance.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- A shift in transitional forests of the North American boreal will persist through 2100.Communications earth & environment · 2024Article
- Tropical Trees Will Need to Acclimate to Rising Temperatures-But Can They?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Adding Tree Rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2.Bioscience · 2022Article
- Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Forest carbon sink neutralized by pervasive growth-lifespan trade-offs.Nature communications · 2020Article
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Abstract
Tree rings are thought to be a powerful tool to reconstruct historical growth changes and have been widely used to assess tree responses to global warming. Demographic inferences suggest, however, that typical sampling procedures induce spurious trends in growth reconstructions. Here we use the world's largest single tree-ring dataset (283,536 trees from 136,621 sites) from Quebec, Canada, to assess to what extent growth reconstructions based on these - and thus any similar - data might be affected by this problem. Indeed, straightforward growth rate reconstructions based on these data suggest a six-fold increase in radial growth of black spruce (Picea mariana) from ~0.5 mm yr
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