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Christian Zang
Researcher at Technische Universität München
Publications - 60
Citations - 3662
Christian Zang is an academic researcher from Technische Universität München. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Biology. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 47 publications receiving 2440 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Zang include Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences & University of Stirling.
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treeclim: an R package for the numerical calibration of proxy‐climate relationships
Christian Zang,Franco Biondi +1 more
TL;DR: The R package treeclim helps perform numerical calibration of proxy-climate relationships, with an emphasis on tree-ring chronologies, and provides a unified, fast, and public-domain compilation of established methods while adding novel functionality not implemented in other software.
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Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era
Edward R. Cook,Richard Seager,Yochanan Kushnir,Keith R. Briffa,Ulf Büntgen,David Frank,Paul J. Krusic,Willy Tegel,Gerard van der Schrier,Laia Andreu-Hayles,Michael Baillie,Claudia Baittinger,Niels Bleicher,Niels Bonde,David Brown,Marco Carrer,Richard J. Cooper,Katarina Čufar,Christoph Dittmar,Jan Esper,Carol B. Griggs,Björn E. Gunnarson,Björn Günther,Emilia Gutiérrez,Kristof Haneca,Samuli Helama,Franz Herzig,Karl-Uwe Heussner,Jutta Hofmann,Pavel Janda,Raymond Kontic,Nesibe Köse,Tomáš Kyncl,Tom Levanič,Hans W. Linderholm,Sturt W. Manning,Thomas M. Melvin,Daniel Miles,Burkhard Neuwirth,Kurt Nicolussi,Paola Nola,Momchil Panayotov,Ionel Popa,Andreas Rothe,Kristina Seftigen,Andrea Seim,Helene Løvstrand Svarva,Miroslav Svoboda,Terje Thun,Mauri Timonen,Ramzi Touchan,Volodymyr Trotsiuk,Valerie Trouet,Felix Walder,Tomasz Ważny,Tomasz Ważny,Rob Wilson,Christian Zang +57 more
TL;DR: Megadroughts reconstructed over north-central Europe in the 11th and mid-15th centuries reinforce other evidence from North America and Asia that droughts were more severe, extensive, and prolonged over Northern Hemisphere land areas before the 20th century, with an inadequate understanding of their causes.
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A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests
Bernhard Schuldt,Allan Buras,Matthias Arend,Yann Vitasse,Carl Beierkuhnlein,Alexander Damm,Mana Gharun,Thorsten E. E. Grams,Markus Hauck,Peter Hajek,Henrik Hartmann,Erika Hiltbrunner,Günter Hoch,Meisha Holloway-Phillips,Christian Körner,Elena Larysch,Torben Lübbe,Daniel B. Nelson,Anja Rammig,Andreas Rigling,Laura Rose,Nadine K. Ruehr,Katja Schumann,Frank Weiser,Christiane Werner,Thomas Wohlgemuth,Christian Zang,Ansgar Kahmen +27 more
TL;DR: In 2018, Central Europe experienced one of the most severe and long-lasting summer drought and heat wave ever recorded, which had a greater impact on forest ecosystems of Austria, Germany and Switzerland than the 2003 drought as discussed by the authors.
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Patterns of drought tolerance in major European temperate forest trees: climatic drivers and levels of variability.
TL;DR: These findings may support the idea of deliberately using spontaneous selection and adaption effects as a passive strategy of forest management under climate change conditions, especially a strong directional selection for more tolerant individuals when frequency and intensity of summer droughts will increase in the course of global climate change.
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Dendroclimatic calibration in R: The bootRes package for response and correlation function analysis
Christian Zang,Franco Biondi +1 more
TL;DR: Package bootRes for R implements a flexible interface for bootstrapped response and correlation function analysis and tackles some shortcomings of currently available software to facilitate both using R as a computational environment among tree-ring scientists and implementing new approaches to dendroclimatic calibration.