Walter Oberhuber

TL;DR: The results imply that growth-based mortality algorithms may be a powerful tool for predicting gymnosperm mortality induced by chronic stress, but not necessarily so for angiosperms and in case of intense drought or bark-beetle outbreaks.

TL;DR: High-resolution cellular based measurements of wood formation dynamics in three coniferous forest sites in northeastern France are presented and it is suggested that forecasted changes in the annual cycle of climatic factors may shift the phase timing of stem size increase and woody biomass production in the future.

TL;DR: It is found that trees that died during drought were less resilient to previous dry events compared to surviving conspecifics, but the resilience strategies differ between angiosperms and gymnosperms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the growth response of Scots pine and Norway spruce exposed to dry inner Alpine climate (Tyrol, Austria) to extreme hot and dry conditions in 2003 and showed that the impact of climate extremes on radial tree growth can vary within site and canopy position and strongly depend on species-specific response to climate factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of climatic factors on radial tree growth (total ringwidth and latewood width) of stunted Scots pine trees (Pinus sylvestris L.) exposed to soil dryness and nutrient deficiency on a dolomite substrate was investigated.