Literature review - vvandermeersch/climategrowthshifts GitHub Wiki

See also: Victor's notebook and Lit on missing rings

Started by Lizzie as I think we should keep a list somewhere ...

I found this blog series linked from some other blog: Severe analytical problems in dendroclimatology, part fifteen ... while we are not following exactly their methods, the use of simulated data to outline the problem and their description seems helpful
From issue #18: A colleague recommended this paper about the ITRDB. Devina provides a nice review of the paper in that issue.
Ben recommended: Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality
Current methods for allometry include the one used by Schofield et al. 2016 and also: Melvin, T. M., and Briffa, K. R. (2008), “A ‘Signal-Free’ Approach to Dendro- climatic Standardisation,” Dendrochronologia, 26, 71–86.

VPD (so far just random articles that Lizzie found)

Multi-species approaches

Girardin et al. 2025: Spatially detailed tree-ring analysis exposes widespread forest growth decline throughout Canada
6 most abundant species used in Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest this paper contradicts Giradin et al. 2025 (but they do not cite it)?
From Ben: Multi-species approach strengthens the reliability of dendroclimatic reconstructions in monsoonal Northeast China
I assume there is a multi-species angle here: Clark et al. 2016: The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States
Traits and drought responses for 65 species using RWI: Wood density and hydraulic traits influence species’ growth response to drought across biomes
Alexander et al. 2019: The potential to strengthen temperature reconstructions in ecoregions with limited tree line using a multispecies approach

Worried about overestimating the climate response?

Evans et al. 2018: Sampling bias overestimates climate change impacts on forest growth in the southwestern United States ... if you look at Figure 3a I think the relative positions of the species are consistent across FIA and ITRDB though.

Miscellaneous:

Evans et al. 2024: Tree rings reveal the transient risk of extinction hidden inside climate envelope forecasts
From Ben: The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions
From Ben: Approaching a thermal tipping point in the Eurasian boreal forest at its southern margin
From Ben: Using Tree Rings to Predict the Response of Tree Growth to Climate Change in the Continental United States during the Twenty-First Century
From Ben: Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality
From Ben: St George and Ault paper -- in addition to other good stuff in a small package, this paper mentions the need for Bayesian hierarchical models and process-based models to directly model the physical responses.
Griffin & Anchukaitis 2014: How unusual is the 2012–2014 California drought?

Legacies:

Vegetation growth responses to climate change: A cross-scale analysis of biological memory and time lags using tree ring and satellite data

Growing season:

Longer growing seasons will not offset growth loss in drought-prone temperate forests of Central-Southeast Europe

Stuff Lizzie read in later 2025

Most of this is listed above or elsewhere on this repo.

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality
Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest
Recent gains in global terrestrial carbon stocks are mostly stored in nonliving pools -- makes no sense, do not recommend
Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth -- well written but really hard to know what they did
Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought -- not trust-worthy results
Underestimation of volcanic cooling in tree-ring-based reconstructions of hemispheric temperatures